Unique Student Identifier (USI)

Have you created your USI? 

If you are studying nationally recognised training in Australia from 1 January 2015, you will be required to have a Unique Student Identifier (USI).

This Student Video will take you through the steps to create your USI.  You will need your USI when enrolling at YouStudy.

Your USI links to an online account that contains all your training records and results (transcript) that you have completed from 1 January 2015 onwards. Your results from 2015 will be available in your USI account in 2016.

When applying for a job or enrolling in further study, you will often need to provide your training records and results (transcript). One of the main benefits of the USI is the ability to provide students with easy access to their training records and results (transcript) throughout their life.
You can access your USI account online from your computer, tablet or smart phone anytime.

Create your USI using this link:  http://www.usi.gov.au/Pages/default.aspx#

The information below may be useful if you have created your Unique Student Identifier (USI) (or your training organisation created it on your behalf) and now you would like to know how to use it.

Give your USI to your Training Organisation

As of 1 January 2015 you will need to give your USI to each new training organisation that you want to enrol to study with. This will normally happen at enrolment.

There are several ways you might give your USI to a training organisation depending on how you enrol.
Some might:

* ask you to enter it as part of online enrolment
* ask you to email it
* have you write it down with other enrolment details

Your training organisation will then need to check that your USI is correct because there might have been a mistake when you gave it to them.

By using your:

* first name
* last name
* date of birth

your training organisation will then be able to check your USI. Only then will they be able to use the USI to store your records and results (transcript). This process is called ‘verifying a USI’.

Training organisations will be using the USI Registry System just like students. But where students have USI accounts for receiving their records and results (transcript), training organisations have access to the USI Registry System for sending in your records and results (transcript).

Forgotten your USI?

If you cannot remember your USI or if you have forgotten if you  have one, the USI Registry System can be used to find it through the ‘Forgotten USI’ function.
A student’s training organisation can also use the ‘find’ function in the USI Registry System to retrieve an existing USI.
If the student is unable to recover the USI by other means, the student can contact the USI Office for assistance.
Sharing your records and results (transcript)

You might want to share your USI records and results (transcripts) with a new training organisation or with an employer to help you get a job.
For example:
sometimes when you enrol to study a new course you find you have completed some of the units already in previous study you might need to prove you have completed previous courses or units for a new course

The USI can be used to link all training completed after 1 January 2015. For training completed before 2015 this means you will still need to find and bring in your paper certificates or other evidence because the USI Registry System can not store training records completed prior to 1 January 2015.
To share your records and results (transcript) with your new training organisation you login to your USI account and give permission for your new training organisation to view your records and results (transcript) for a set amount of time.
Giving a training organisation permission to view your records and results (transcripts) is an easy way for you to share information with them.
When you give permission for a training organisation to view your records and results (transcript) you can: