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Uni Stuff => Universities - Victoria => University of Melbourne => Topic started by: vcestudent94 on January 19, 2013, 12:45:30 pm

Title: Time-tabling question
Post by: vcestudent94 on January 19, 2013, 12:45:30 pm
Official negotiated offer enrollment is after the 6th of February, is that going to affect my preferences in time-tabling? Does UoM sort out time tables and subjects after the 6th or before and do they work
on a 'first-come, first-served' basis?
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: Hancock on January 19, 2013, 01:10:20 pm
Pretty much a first-served basis. However, many first year subjects have staggered release, meaning that 20% of all class spaces are closed until a later date in Feburary. This is done to alleviate issues such as yours. Hopefully you get a decent timetable.
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: marr on January 19, 2013, 01:44:01 pm
What day does the timetable open this year?
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: Peedles on January 19, 2013, 01:56:14 pm
Semester 1:
1st release
Monday 4 Feb 2013
2nd release:
Monday 25 Feb 2013
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: vcestudent94 on January 19, 2013, 02:19:42 pm
Pretty much a first-served basis. However, many first year subjects have staggered release, meaning that 20% of all class spaces are closed until a later date in Feburary. This is done to alleviate issues such as yours. Hopefully you get a decent timetable.
So someone that submits there timetable on the 6th of Feb will have priority over someone that does it a week later?
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: Russ on January 19, 2013, 03:53:49 pm
You don't "submit" a timetable, the timetable opens for registration and you register into the classes/times you want. If they fill up before you try, then you can't register.
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: vcestudent94 on January 19, 2013, 04:15:30 pm
You don't "submit" a timetable, the timetable opens for registration and you register into the classes/times you want. If they fill up before you try, then you can't register.
oh, so can I register a timetable as soon as I get my official offer on the 6th of Feb an it will be finalized on the day?
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: Russ on January 19, 2013, 04:30:01 pm
Once you go through the whole choosing classes thing, yeah
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: AllAboutTheLGs on January 19, 2013, 08:25:06 pm
So us negotiated offer people MIGHT miss out on subjects ? D:
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: Russ on January 19, 2013, 08:44:06 pm
You won't miss out on subjects, you just might not be able to get the exact class times you want.
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: vcestudent94 on January 19, 2013, 09:16:11 pm
What do you think about an engineering major at Melbourne, do you think there would be a good chance at a good time table by second round?
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: AllAboutTheLGs on January 19, 2013, 09:17:45 pm
Oh I see! by choosing our own class times does that mean I could technically spam certain days with classes and leave days free?
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: Shenz0r on January 19, 2013, 09:32:56 pm
You could try to I'd imagine.
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: Peedles on January 19, 2013, 10:06:44 pm
Oh I see! by choosing our own class times does that mean I could technically spam certain days with classes and leave days free?

What I did for every semester of my BSci undergraduate degree was when I determined the four subjects that I was going to do; I searched each subject up in the hand book and clicked on (view timetable). From there they usually list out all of the lecture stream times and lecture theatre locations. I would make a mock timetable in an excel spreadsheet. Playing around with it until I had my ideal timetable. However, with Science the large cohort of students doing a subject means that there will be different streams for the one subject and therefore the timetabling is more flexible in that regard. However, for Biomedicine most of the core subjects have fixed venues to accomodate for everyone, because everyone will be doing the same subject. So in that sense, you have less flexibility in timetabling and if you enrol late or whatever it's not going to affect your timetable as much as a Science student for example.
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: Russ on January 19, 2013, 10:07:48 pm
You don't get to choose any time, just the times they've set. So it depends on the master timetable basically
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: litaluta on January 20, 2013, 06:53:23 am
Semester 1:
1st release
Monday 4 Feb 2013
2nd release:
Monday 25 Feb 2013

2nd release is for internationals?
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: mankay on January 20, 2013, 10:05:06 am
2nd release is for internationals?
For anyone.
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: vcestudent94 on January 20, 2013, 10:25:54 am
Wait, what exactly are they releasing? I though you were able to make your timetable on the day? Do I have to wait until the 25th for it to be finalised..
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: Bhootnike on January 20, 2013, 02:00:55 pm
soooo...
im confused as to wtf is happening with UoM haha,

on AAD, do we actually enroll in anything, or is it just information on the day that we are getting?
what day do we have to actually have to accept the offer..? - the day when we get an email or letter with the ID to register on the enrollment website?
what day do we register our subjects to create our timetable?
and what else is there for us to do ... haha.
so confused
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: Genericname2365 on January 21, 2013, 03:09:32 pm
How early would people recommend timetables be selected? Should it be done in the first two days after it's open, or is there typically a little more time to work through it before a lot of the timeframes are filled up?
Title: Re: Time-tabling question
Post by: Starlight on January 21, 2013, 03:24:41 pm
How early would people recommend timetables be selected? Should it be done in the first two days after it's open, or is there typically a little more time to work through it before a lot of the timeframes are filled up?

As soon as it opens in order to create the best timetable.