Account Settings

Manage your personal data, study profiles, and system settings in Paperless, and reset the app if needed.

Managing Your Account Settings

Click on the profile icon at the top right to get to your account settings.

On the left side, you can see a menu with the following categories: Personal, Study Profiles and System Settings.

Personal Data

To change your personal data for your paperless account, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the menu tab Personal, then click on Personal Data. You can now edit the following personal information: Form of Address and Phone Number.
  2. To change the Form of address, you can choose your preference from the drop down menu by clicking on it. To edit your Phone Number, you can just type it into the provided field.
  3. Click the Save-button to save any changes made.

Study Profiles

The section Study Profiles shows you all current study profiles and study profiles you submitted requests under in the past.

To edit information for one of the current study profiles, select the profile you want to edit on the left. You can now change the following information: University, Matriculation No., Academic Course and Current Examination Regulation. You can change any information by choosing an available alternative from the respective drop-down menu. Click Save to save any changes made. Click Delete these details to delete the study profile.

Note that details cannot be changed while they are used in an application that has not been fully processed yet. You can add a new study profile with different information.

Click Add study profile in the left menu, if you want to add a new profile. Then follow these steps:

  1. Choose a University from the drop-down menu in the field University.
  2. In the field Matriculation No. enter your matriculation number, which has 6 digits.
  3. For the field Academic Course select the course you want to set up the study profile for from the drop-down menu.
  4. Finally, choose a Current examination regulation for your academic course.
  5. Save the changes by clicking on Add.

Resetting the App

Resetting the app will remove your local settings and reload the application. This should only be necessary if you have errors in the user interface.

Your account, requests, completions and other data will be preserved. You can reset the app by navigating to the category System in the menu on the left and then click Reset App. A warning will pop up informing you of the above information. Click Ok if you want to reset. Click Cancel if you do not want to reset.

Logging Out

To sign out of Paperless, click on the profile icon at the top right and select Logout.

When you sign in again, the current data from RWTH Sign-In (for example, new study profiles) is transferred to Paperless.