The KU student portal: an online platform for Kenyatta
University learners. The portal aggregates student services and makes them
available easily and conveniently.
As a student at KU, you can access personalized information
including other University academic and non-academic updates. Therefore, it
requires that you understand how the portal works.
In this article, I help you understand the registration
process. Then, you will learn how to create an account for yourself and how to
use it.
With this account, you will enjoy the university services.
Imagine accessing your fee statement, exam results, register units or track
your ID registration in the same place.
How does it feel?
This is absolutely what a student needs.
KU Student Portal Homepage: Here is Why You Need to Use
the KU Student Portal
With a student account, log in to the KU student portal
homepage to access a list of services and personal information. You will be
able to access the following:
- Access
ICT support services
- Access
lecturer surveys
- Attendance
- Degree
audit report
- Financial
aid award letter
- Grades
- Messages
and calendar
- Course
schedule
- Student
account
- Hostel
application
- Schedule
KU Student Portal: Kenyatta University Student Portal
Account Registration.
Here is the procedure of registering a student account on
the KU student portal:
- Visit
Kenyatta University Students Portal
- Then
tap on the first link Students Registration Portal
- Click
on Create a New account link
- You
need to enter your Student ID details (the student ID should be the last
digits of the student number. For example, your student number
M34T/5347/2019 means that the student ID will be 5347/2019)
- Enter
your First Name, your Last Name.
- Then
key in your Place of Birth which would become a secret question – you may
forget your password at some point and the secret question will help you
recover a new one.
- Click
next
- Remember
that the email you used to register in the system will be displayed as the
student email.
- You
need to then click Yes and continue. If you didn’t provide your email
during the registration process, the system displays that information as
Null or 0.
But no need to panic – your username will be generated by
the system.
- In the next step, enter your password of choice. Again enter it the second time
to confirm the password you entered initially (they should match).
- Click
on the Submit button
If you don’t have a good memory, please make sure that you
write down somewhere the password and even the username. You never know – they
can be used for reference in the future.
But what happens if you did not note down these details?
And, God forbid, you forgot your password!
Well, the process right next should help you out.
How to Recover a Forgotten Password for the KU Student
Portal Login.
In the following 5 simple steps, you should be able to
recover your KU portal password.
- Go
to the KU website student portal
- Enter
your username;
- Enter
the email you registered the account with
- Click
submit
- An
activation link to change your password will be sent to your email
- You
will be required to click on the link. Then you will be redirected to the
homepage where you can now input a new password.
The KU Student Portal-Faculty Portal Homepage.
You can also login to the KU faculty homepage to gain access
to tools that help you manage tasks like:
- Submitting
the attendance
- View
school news and campus events
- Print
class rosters
- Submit
grades
- View
messages and calendar
- Search
course schedules
How Do I Register a Course on the KU Student Portal?
Different from what used to happen before, course
registration can be done quite easily on the KU portal. And also, you get
access to the units being taught that particular semester.
But something you must have done for successful course
registration is payment of fees. Ensure that you pay full fees to have a smooth
process.
Follow these steps:
- Visit
the Kenyatta University Portal.
- You
will see a Student Portal Homepage
- Type
your username and password as required in the fields marked with the
asterisk. The username letters should be in lower case.
- Then,
tap or click on the Academics.
- Click
on the Online Registration tab and continue to the Begin Online
Registration tab
- Sometimes
you will encounter a system error “Online Registration is not available”.
This means that you are probably not in good terms with the Finance
Department.
If you paid, ensure that you visit the Finance offices again
for any assistance. And if you haven’t paid a cent, make sure that you deposit
money and complete all the necessary procedures.
- Search
for the course you want to register by using the Quick Add Functionality.
- Enter
the course code to be registered and click Add.
- With
the course now added, check its validity. Then proceed to finish the
registration process.
- In
the last step, click Register to complete the whole process.
Kenyatta University Porta: How to Book Accommodation
Online.
If you are a new student preparing to join Kenyatta
University, you can rest assured that your accommodation has been secured. The
university does not leave its fresh students to suffer the inconvenience of
accommodation.
This means that any student receiving messages about hostel
booking shouldn’t be listening to such people. They are just conmen looking for
prey to steal from.
For the continuing students, however, you need to ensure
that you make prior accommodation arrangements. That’s if you prefer staying in
the campus.
So, you will need to book for a room in the campus hostels.
The process has been simplified by the fact that you can do this online from
your device – phone or computer.
Remember that hostel accommodation should be done during the
holidays before the semester resumes.
To make sure that you secure a room, it is important
to book early. Otherwise,
it’s possible that you will not get a room inside the campus.
KU Student Portal: How to Check Kenyatta University Fee
Balance.
Checking your fee balance on the student’s portal is a
breeze. Keep in mind that all students should have completed fee payment 3
weeks after the semester resumes.
You don’t want your semester to be terminated because you
didn’t pay fees. So knowing the balances should be a priority.
But things are easy with the portal.
Here are quick steps to help you around this:
- Go
to the KU student portal website https://portal.ku.ac.ke/secure/student/loginstu.aspx
- Login
to your account using your username and password
- Go
to the sidebar menu and click on the fee statement. You will see the full
fee statement.
- The
statement comes showing the date, reference, receipt number, description,
the debit column, the credit balance and the balance on the extreme end.
- Make
sure to allow pop-ups on your browser; otherwise, allow the KU portal site
to load popups by clicking on the Popup notice on the top right corner of
the screen
- While
on this student fee statement, you will see that you can browse through
the pages 1,2,3,4, 5,… to see a history of transactions you’ve been doing.
- At
the bottom of the statement, you will see the fees balance. This is what
you owe the university.
- Note
that if the value has a negative sign before it, this means that you
overpaid the fees. A positive sign means you owe the university and
therefore you should pay as soon as possible.
Kenyatta University Contacts.
In case you have any inquiries regarding the university, the
following are the contacts you can use.
For general inquiries contact them on:
Kenyatta University Telephone: 0208703101 or 0208703103 or
0202310747 or +254 20 8703000
Fax: +254 20 8711575
Email: info@ku.ac.ke
Facebook: Kenyattauni
Twitter: @KenyattaUni
KU official website: www.ku.ac.ke
Physical address:
Kenyatta University-Main Campus,
Thika Road Central Administration Complex,
Third Floor North Wing, Room No. 323
- O.
Box 43844-00100 Nairobi, Kenya.
In Conclusion
Kenyatta University is committed to improving its services
to the student community. Which is why the KU student portal is a great avenue
for the students to interact with the university without visiting the physical
offices.
You can always do lots of stuff right from the internet on
your phone or computer. You can use the university student computer center if
you don’t have a phone with internet.
What’s more, with this information, I am pretty sure that
you will not find the student portal registration process anything difficult to
do. You don’t want to miss out on key university services such as course
registration, access to ICT services, grades, messages and calendar and many
more.
Besides, by registering an account with KU portal, you will
stay updated of the goings-on in the campus.
If you have been having an account and not using it, it’s high time to break the dormancy and see the essential services brought closer to your reach. You need the account whether you are a new or continuing student at the university.