Wallet
Wallet
The Wallet feature has everything you need to breeze through the day. It’s right there in the bottom menu bar, so it’s easy to find.
If you’re having trouble accessing the Wallet feature:
- Make sure you’re signed in with your NetID. At the upper right, click your avatar and go to Sign In/Sign Out.
- Set your privacy level to at least 4. At the upper right, click the Settings wheel and go to My App Privacy Settings > Manage and Understand Your Privacy. Adjust the slider to change your privacy settings.
- If your i-card isn’t active, check with the ID Center.
Bus Pass
Wallet > Bus Pass
The digital Bus Pass works just like your i-card. Show it to an MTD bus driver to travel off campus.
Meal Plan
Wallet > Meal Plan
The Meal Plan feature helps you keep track of the remaining meals in your University Housing contract, your Dining Dollars balance, and your transaction history.
My Courses
Home > Sections > Academics > My Courses
Instead of panicking at the beginning of the semester when you can’t remember the room number for CHEM 104, pull up My Courses. Glance at the location—don’t forget to double-check the time—and take a deep breath.
No matter if it’s your last semester before graduating or your first, getting lost happens. Make sure you land in your seat on time by mapping your route. Just tap the class location and follow the step-by-step directions.
Map
Map
We’ve all been there: lost and late and feeling panicky. The Map feature has you covered. Use it to check the fastest route, find a mysterious (to you) building (where is ILIR?), and get there with time to spare.
Narrow down the area to campus buildings or residence hall dining spots, locate the nearest bus stop, or track down ADA entrances and drinking fountains. Plus you can tap a star to save a location for handy access the next time you’re traveling that way.
Class-to-Class Navigation at Scale
At the beginning of a semester, students can readily get directions to their next class through the My Courses option on the Map feature. On the first day of class in fall 2025, this course-linked navigation service handled nearly 490,000 requests. Over the first month of that semester, requests ballooned into the millions—with predictable spikes about eight minutes before each hour, exactly when students leave one class and head to the next. On a campus with 300+ buildings, this is a quiet but profound service: it helps students arrive on time, reduces avoidable stress, and smooths the critical first weeks of the term.
Events
Home > Sections > Events
Use the Events section to see what’s happening. Apply filters to narrow the options by cost, format, category, or host.
Click the map link for directions and tap the star to add an event to your Favorites screen.
You can get your own event into the app in a few ways. All faculty and staff can use the Illinois app website.
Any group administrator can add an event to the main events list through the Groups feature. Go to My Groups, select a group, and tap on Events. Tap the ⊕ on the right to create an event.
Webtools calendar administrators, faculty, and staff have access to other tools to add an event.
Illinois Health Screener
Home > Sections > Wellness > Illinois Health Screener
This question-based tool gives suggestions on the next steps to take to address the primary symptom that you’re wondering about.
Simply follow the prompts and you’ll get options such as resting and using the tool again, calling a medical professional, or contacting a crisis line. If you have multiple symptoms, you can start the screener over and choose another symptom to check.
Information in the Illinois Health Screener is completely confidential. Only you see your symptoms and responses. The app does not share this information with McKinley Health Center or anyone else.
You can decide whether to share your results with your health-care provider by showing your phone or a screenshot.
The Illinois Health Screener is not a diagnostic tool. Only a medical professional can determine your individual needs. Use your best judgment when making decisions about your health.
The Illinois Health Screener is provided by McKinley Health Center and Student Affairs at the University of Illinois.
Dining
Home > Sections > Dining
You have to keep your energy up for a day of labs and lectures and practices and discussion sessions and studying. Not only can you locate a spot to grab coffee (plus a hearty breakfast sandwich) or sit down for an evening meal, but you can also search menus by food preferences, order online, get directions, check the hours (yes, you can get a smoothie on your way home from the library), and pay through the app.
When you have guests in town, don’t forget that anyone can eat in the residence halls. Pull up the Dining feature, peek at the menus, and pick out a place you all can enjoy. Maybe someone will buy you a cookie, so be sure to double-check the dessert options.
Dining Safely
Decisions about what and where to eat are made multiple times a day, and for those managing dietary needs, these choices can have high stakes. The Dining feature combined with the My Food Filter allow users to select cuisine types or exclude ingredients to customize the menu items they see. This centralized, accurate, and timely source of information on food served in residence hall dining spots supports well-being, reduces uncertainty, and contributes meaningfully to safe decision-making.
Groups
Home > Sections > Groups
Do you adore watching the squirrels scavenge for food on the Quad? You aren’t alone. Join the like-minded Sciuridae enthusiasts—or find people who are just as interested in your hobby or major or pet or anything else you can think of as you are. Locate your residence hall floormates, start a study group, challenge yourself to meet a wellness goal, or learn about campus resources.
Anyone with a NetID can create a group, and members can respond to posts, take polls, and send videos. Plus you can use your group to alert members about university activities you want to attend together or create events of your own.
Faculty and staff can create private university-managed groups that will have membership details synchronized with official data sources.
Illinois Assistant
Illinois Assistant
Because every semester brings fresh discombobulation—Why does the English Building have a swimming-pool-shaped atrium? What is an “oskee” anyway? How do I get out of this weather and into the steam tunnels?—the Illinois Assistant is prepared to quash those question marks. It’s a search tool, not a chatbot, so you won’t have a conversation, but you can get answers to what you’ve been wondering about buildings, activities and events, resources, Illinois traditions, and other aspects of campus life. (Yes, you can learn about Pinto Bean the beloved squirrel if you ask.)