First steps

Matrix Login with Academic ID

All Academic Cloud users are enabled to chat with each other as well as matrix users at different universities and research institutes using the GWDG matrix service in compliance with the relevant legal and regulatory provisions on data protection and IT security.

Tip

We recommend using the Element desktop client, because this avoids most problems users have with Matrix, e.g. end-to-end encryption.

Downloads for: Windows macOS Linux

After a desktop installation, make sure to use the existing account with the Academic ID and not to create a new account on another server. Here the example of Element:

Selected login button in the element matrix client Selected login button in the element matrix client

This is done by clicking on Change. Then you will not accidentally end up on the wrong server…

Change login page with focus on the homeserver button Change login page with focus on the homeserver button

Now you can manually specify the home server:

Institution Server
Institution Home Server
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Max-Planck-Gesellschaft https://matrixchat.mpg.de
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen https://chat.uni-goettingen.de
Universitätsmedizin Göttingen https://chat.umg.eu
GWDG https://matrix.gwdg.de
Academic Cloud https://chat.academiccloud.de

Input field to change the home server with the input matrix.tu-dresden.de Input field to change the home server with the input matrix.tu-dresden.de

Afterwards you can login via the Academic Cloud:

Academic Cloud SSO Login Academic Cloud SSO Login

Analogous to e-mail addresses, this results in matrix addresses with the following structure:

@username:academiccloud.de

Warning

We highly recommend to set up your key backup as the next step!

Matrix Login without Academic ID

It is not possible to register a matrix account directly. However, matrix is available for guests accounts, which can be created on Academic Cloud.