Make education work for you with NWU Distance Learning
NWU Distance Learning offers high quality undergraduate and postgraduate qualifications at an affordable price. Distance learning creates an opportunity for students to obtain a qualification to accelerate their career and improve their effectiveness and efficiency in the workplace.
Important notifications
Attention! Distance and Part-Time Students
19 May 2025
Important information and instructions regarding the download of a hall ticket as a requirement for the JUNE/JULY exams. As well as using The Invigilator app at your dedicated examination centre. Please view the links below:
Important Communication: Exam Hall Tickets
Invigilator App: Student Training
Invigilator App: Mobile Student Guide
The Invigilator - FAQs for distance and part-time students
Current students - take note! Multi-Factor Authentication for Microsoft 365 access
Microsoft has already started gradually enforcing MS 365 MFA in the worldwide Microsoft environment from 15 October 2024. What this means is that prior to logging into your MS365 account and accessing the Microsoft applications, you will be required to verify your MS365 account. All students will be required to do MS 365 MFA by January 2025, when Microsoft will enforce this security measure for all NWU staff accounts. Click Here to learn more.
Distance learning second opportunity assessments
Distance learning students must please take note that as from 2024 it is foreseen that the timelines for distance learning second opportunity assessments will change, as second opportunity assessments will not be written six months after the first assessment opportunity anymore.
Distance learning students who have second opportunity assessments pending from the November 2023 first opportunity will be the last group to be accommodated in this manner and will receive further communication soon.
Device requirements for distance learning students
3 December 2024
Distance learning students should please take note that they must have access to a computer and stable internet connection in 2025 for the purpose of receiving and sending information and the completion and submission of assignments and assessments/exams. Own data is required.
Distance learning students should have a basic smart phone with a camera and access to Google play store, Apple app store or Huawei store and internet connection. Own data is required.
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Email: studies@mynwu.info / DistancePotch@nwu.ac.za
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