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.
Your course's timetable (via UniTimetables)
For most courses, teaching for the 2024/25 academic year starts the week commencing 23 September. 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. It's also likely that your course timetable will be very different to your Welcome Schedule.
Timetables for Semester/Trimester 1 for 2024/25 courses based at Canterbury and Medway will be available from August on UniTimetables, our online timetabling system. You can use UniTimetables to view the teaching timetables for any course or module, including online classes but excluding placements. You don’t need a special login to view UniTimetables, it’s available to everyone.
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 seminar groups
Please be aware that UniTimetables displays all the teaching activities associated with a course or module.
If your course is wholly or partially taught in multiple groups (which is often the case for larger courses with seminars), your Course team will need to assign you to your groups based on a number of factors including the total number of students taking the module. This helps us to ensure that the timetable works for everyone and avoids clashes, but is only possible once the majority of students have completed their registration.
Your Course team will tell you more about your groups, and your timetable more generally, during your Welcome Week.
Until you know which groups you're in for group activities, UniTimetables can provide you with an overview of your course’s timetable. 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.
Your individual student timetable (via MyTimetable)
As well as UniTimetables, most CCCU students are able to access a personalised online timetable that displays all the classes that they’re expected to attend including any group activities (but excluding placements). This is known as an Individual Student Timetable or ‘IST’.
You can access your IST via 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
So, it may be a couple of weeks into your first term before you can see your complete IST in 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 IST 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 IST once it's ready, please see our MyTimetable user guide.
Short Courses
Please note that individual student timetables are not available for 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.