Time-tabling question

[vcestudent94]

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?

[Hancock]

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.

[marr]

What day does the timetable open this year?

[Peedles]

Semester 1:
1st release
Monday 4 Feb 2013
2nd release:
Monday 25 Feb 2013

[vcestudent94]

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?

[Russ]

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.

[vcestudent94]

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?

[Russ]

Once you go through the whole choosing classes thing, yeah

[AllAboutTheLGs]

So us negotiated offer people MIGHT miss out on subjects ? D:

[Russ]

You won't miss out on subjects, you just might not be able to get the exact class times you want.

[vcestudent94]

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?

[AllAboutTheLGs]

Oh I see! by choosing our own class times does that mean I could technically spam certain days with classes and leave days free?

[Shenz0r]

You could try to I'd imagine.

[Peedles]

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.

[Russ]

You don't get to choose any time, just the times they've set. So it depends on the master timetable basically