Timetabling for new students

We understand how important it is for you to be able to plan ahead. So here’s how to find your key dates and your teaching timetable for your first year of study.

Please note you are allocated your timetable. Due to the complicated nature of organising timetables for hundreds of courses, we are not able to provide you with options around which days you attend.

Your Academic Calendar

To help with the smooth running of the University, similar types of course follow the same 'Academic Calendar'. This basically means that similar courses share the same key dates, e.g. when their Welcome Week takes place, when teaching on their modules starts, and when they break for holidays.

In most cases, you can find out which Academic Calendar your course is on by checking your Course Essentials (available from June). You can also find this in MyRecord alongside your other course details, once you have registered.

If you know your Academic Calendar, you can look up its key dates for the next few academic years.

Your Welcome Week

Most courses start with a Welcome Week immediately before teaching begins. This is when you'll get to meet your tutors and classmates and find out more about university life. You'll also get to learn more about your course timetable. For these reasons, it's really important that you attend your Welcome Week activities.

Each course’s Welcome Week is tailored to its specific needs, so you may find that your Welcome Schedule is different to other students that you meet. Your Welcome Schedule will also probably be very different to your course timetable.

UniTimetable - Your course's timetable

UniTimetables provides an overview of all teaching activities on a course.

Each course’s timetable is different, so you will probably find that your days/hours on campus will be different to other students that you meet.

You can use UniTimetables to view the teaching timetables for any course or module, including online classes ( excluding Welcome Week and placements ). You don’t need a special login to view UniTimetables, it’s available to everyone.

Even if your course is sometimes taught in smaller groups, you can still use UniTimetables to check when you are likely to get a day off (because there is no teaching at all on your course that day), on which days you'll have a late start, and so on.

The best way to look up your course timetable on UniTimetables is to use your course code. You’ll find your course code in MyRecord; under ‘My Studies’ if you’re a current student or ‘Application(s)’ if you haven’t yet registered.

For more on how to get the most out of UniTimetables, please see our UniTimetables user guide and videos.

Information about groups

Larger courses are often broken down into smaller groups.

UniTimetables displays all the teaching activities associated with a course or module. If your course is taught in groups, you will see information for all the groups and not what group you are specifically in.

You will need MyTimetable to show you what modules and groups you are expected to attend. MyTimetable can only be produced once you have engaged with online registration and created your computing account. It is essential you complete these tasks when invited so that your course team can assign you to your teaching group and provide you with your individual student timetable.

Your Course team will tell you more about your groups, and your timetable more generally, during your Welcome Week.

MyTimetable - your individual student timetable

Most CCCU students are able to access an individual student timetable via MyTimetable

This displays all the classes that you are expected to attend including any group activities (but excluding placements).

You can access MyTimetable as soon as:

you’ve registered as a student
you’ve created your computing account and set up your university username and password, and
your Course team have assigned you to all the teaching activities you need to attend

It may be a couple of weeks into your first Semester/Trimester before you can see your complete MyTimetable. Until then, you can use UniTimetables and information provided by your Course team before and during Welcome Week to get you to where you need to be.

Once your MyTimetable is ready, you can link it to the calendar app you use in your personal life (Google, Apple etc), so you can see your university commitments and your other events in one place.

For more on how to get the most out of your individual student timetable once it's ready, please see our MyTimetable user guide.

Short Courses

Please note that individual student timetables are not available for some short courses and some courses with external professional requirements, but instead your course team will supply you with all necessary timetabling information.

Partner Students

If you are studying at one of our partnership institutions, your place of study is responsible for your timetable. If you have any timetabling related questions, you should contact staff at your place of study.