Orientation Checklist

Within three days of your deposit being processed, you will receive your University ID number, UHart email address, and a temporary password in the personal email you used to set up your application portal. Make sure you log in to your UHart email right away—you will need to use your UHart credentials for many of the items listed in this checklist!

You can access your UHart Email here. Click on the "Hawkmail" icon.

Prior to starting your first semester, log in to MyUHart and select "Self-Service" to accept your financial aid award. Once you visit Self Service, click on the "Financial Aid" tab followed by the "Offer" tab. Please follow the steps below.

Viewing and Accepting Grants and Scholarships

• Find "Grants and Scholarships to Pay for College"
• Review and click "confirm"
• If Terms and Conditions are needed, it will prompt you to accept. You must review and scroll to the bottom of the terms and condition and click the "I acknowledge" and then "accept award."

Viewing and Accepting Loan Options

• Find "Options to Pay Net Cost"
• Review loan options and go the right column "Take Action"
  • Use drop-down to accept all or decline all and click submit
  • Only use modify if you don't intend to accept the full amount

Viewing Terms and Conditions After Acceptance

• Log into Self Service and navigate to the "Financial Aid" tab
• Click on "Resources"

Viewing Missing and Required Documents

• Log into Self Service and navigate to the "Financial Aid" tab
• Click on "Home"
• Click on "Student Requirements" see "Unsatisfied Requirements"

You will need to use your UHart credentials to sign in to Self-Service.

Please save the date for our Orientation for students beginning with us in January for the spring semester: January 21, 2025.

Join the conversation on the social app ZeeMee. Similar to Instagram, you can watch videos and view posts from other students, introduce yourself, and be a part of smaller communities that help you to get all of your questions answered.

Join today at: colleges.zeemee.com/colleges/hartford/admitted

Your class schedule will be generated once you complete your pre-registration survey, the will be sent to you via email. Your schedule will be sent to you through your email in early July.

Check Your Academic Schedule 

First-year students will receive an email from your advisor in the Center for Student Success with your schedule. If you have completed your pre-registration survey, you can expect to receive your schedule by early July. Make sure to check your schedule in the Self-Service Center. 

1. Log-in to Self-Service
2. Select “Student” tab on the top of the page
3. Click “Registration”
4. The next menu will give two viewing options: “Student Schedule by Day & Time” and “Student Detail Schedule and Printable Schedule

Transfer students, please reach out to your school or college transfer evaluator. If you are not successful in connecting with your school or college, please feel free to contact the CSS Transfer contact: Julie Spring at jspring@hartford.edu.

The housing application

• Go to Self-Serve
• Select Student
• Select Residential Life
• Complete the application

The priority deadline to complete the housing application is June 15. If you are unable to complete the housing application by June 15, please reach out to the Office of Residential Life for help. 

The deadline to submit your application to live in a Residential Learning Community is May 17.

All students, full time and part time, graduate and undergraduate, must submit an immunization record.

Please note that fully online learners do not need to meet the immunization requirement.

The form must be completed with your registration/acceptance to the University. It must be signed and stamped by your health care provider or you may submit a copy of records from another school or physician office.  You must then upload the form to Hartford.studenthealthportal.com and enter your immunization dates into the portal as well. You will need to use your hartford.edu email address credentials to sign onto the health portal.

Immunization records are required prior to the start of classes. The immunization form must be uploaded by July 15 for students starting in the fall semester. For students beginning in the spring semester, records must be submitted within two weeks of your deposit, or by the first time you come to campus, whichever is earlier.

If your provider will not fill out the form without a physical and will only provide a printout of immunizations, you must still fully fill out our form and submit the records. 

Requirements are based on The Connecticut Department of Public Health.

Learn More and Download the Immunization Form

Your student ID is used to access facilities around campus, for meals, to obtain a parking pass, and so much more.

To submit your ID photo:

• Log in with your email username and password. If you don’t know your password, you can request a reset by emailing helpdesk@hartford.edu or calling 860-768-4357, but please note we do not have weekend support at this time.
• Take a picture of your face against a white or light background, similar to a DMV or passport photo (but please take a new photo, not a picture of a previous photo)
• Upload photo and ssubmit
• Receive confirmation email

For questions regarding the photo upload process please contact IDOffice@hartford.edu.

It's important you complete the Terms and Conditions of Enrollment and the Web Proxy/FERPA Consent forms online. The Web Proxy/FERPA consent allows you to designate a person(s), like a parent or guardian, to login to certain pages within your Self Service, as well to allow the University to communicate with them on the same topics.

You can review your bill, pay it, and add authorized payers in the Self-Service Center.

1. Go to Self-Serve
2. Select Student
3. Click on Student Financial Records
4. Select Pay Your Bill/CASHNet

The University offers a series of payment plans. 

As a resource to helping you navigate financing your education, we host a webinar on the financial aid and billing process. Below is a recording of our most recent session for you as a resource!

Incoming Residential Students

Please visit our Moving to Campus page for more information regarding selecting a move-in Timeslot. 

You will receive an email invite to complete the required Healthy Hawks Training. This training invite comes to your University email address. This is a legitimate email and includes instructions on how to complete the five (5) required online trainings to help make our campus a healthy and safe environment for all. If you have any questions about this online training, please email healthyhawks@hartford.edu.

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