Teachers, Researchers and Technicians
Identification & Access
🆔 Iscte Card
All employees are entitled to an Iscte ID Card.
Provisional Card
At the beginning of your employment at Iscte, the “Unidade de Recursos Humanos” (Human Resources Unit), will issue a duly activated provisional card to the employee.
In other situations, please contact us through the communication channels indicated on this page to book an appointment with our support team to activate the cards.
Definite Card
Non-bank card – It is raised in the Human Resources Unit (Sedas Nunes Building, Atrium 1W, room 1W01).
Bank card – It is picked up at any CGD agency or delivered to the owner’s address.
To activate the cards, please contact us through the communication channels indicated on this page to book an appointment with our support team.
🧑💻 User Account
The account is personal and non-transferable. For instance, the employee Xisto Ximenes has the following credentials:
Username: xxnes@iscte-iul.pt
Email address: Xisto.Ximenes@iscte-iul.pt
Password: Password.2020
📧 Email account
The email service (individual accounts, shared accounts and distribution lists), supported by the Office 365 platform, is available to all Iscte students.
Multifactor Authentication (MFA)
Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is an electronic authentication method in which users confirm their identity by presenting two or more pieces of evidence successfully. In ISCTE we consider your username and password to be the first factor of authentication.
We recommend the OKTA Verify application as a second authentication factor.
Awareness in Cybersecurity
Infrastructure & Connectivity
📶 Wireless network (Wi-Fi)
Iscte’s wireless network service covers virtually the entire Iscte campus with the SSID eduroam.
On newer devices, eduroam configuration is automatic; simply enter your Fenix+ username and password.
- Access your Wi-Fi settings.
- Select the “Eduroam” network.
- Enter your Iscte username and password.
Eduroam (Education Roaming) is a mobility service developed for the international education and research community.
📞 VoIP
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a technology that allows you to make voice calls using an internet connection instead of a traditional phone line.
🔐 VPN
Secure remote access to Iscte’s internal resources.
Services & Support
🗂️ Applications
Internal Information Systems
- 🎉 Events – Events management platform.
- 🎓 Fenix + – Platform for managing the teaching and learning process at Iscte-IUL.
- 🛠️ iAjuda – Iscte-IUL IT service portal.
- 🏛️ Iscte Portal – Iscte’s main communication channel on the web, with information on courses, news, events, etc.
- 📱 Mobile App – Mobile application available to the entire Iscte-IUL community.
- 📚 Moodle – Iscte-IUL e-Learning platform.
- 💻 Online-Learning – Iscte-IUL online learning platform.
- 🔍 Turnitin – Turnitin is a tool for checking originality and preventing plagiarism.
🤝 Collaboration Tools
- Teams – Team collaboration platform developed by Microsoft.
- Educast – Video management service for simple registration and distribution of academic content (classes).
- Filesender – Application that allows users to temporarily send and store large files.
- Videocast – Videocast allows you to stream video, audio and slides in real time through a simple web page. It may also include chat, twitter and controlled access from users.
- Colibri/Zoom – Videoconferencing service based on the Zoom video conferencing system.
🖨️ Printing and Scanning
📚 Scientific and Academic Databases
💻 Software
Teaching support software (campus-licensed):
- IBM SPSS AMOS – Allows the use of structural equation modelling (SEM) to test hypotheses.
- Autodesk – Free access to educational software.
- Eviews – Access to forecasting and statistical modelling tools.
- Intel – Includes software development toolkits.
- Matlab – Numerical computing and programming software.
- MAXQDA – Qualitative data analysis and mixed methods research.
- Microsoft Azure – Software, including Windows 10, Microsoft Visio and Microsoft Project.
- Microsoft Copilot – AI tool that facilitates content creation, editing and analysis.
- Office365 – Microsoft’s suite of applications.
- Qualtrics – Data collection products for academic research.
- R – Computational statistics software
- IBM SkillsBuild – A free educational program designed to help learners develop valuable skills and access career opportunities, particularly in the tech field.
- IBM SPSS Statistics – Advanced statistical analysis.
- IBM SPSS Modeler – Application of data extraction and text analysis software.
- Stata – Statistical software.
- think-cell – A Microsoft Office add-in for PowerPoint and Excel that integrates with these applications, making it easier to build and visualise simple or complex graphs.
