mana’s guide to enrolment
• Posted by Mana on January 21st, 2008
This post is for people who have already received their offer letter to SATAC course 314552 (or 324221).
Considering it was quite confusing for me last time, and still quite confusing for me this time, I figured that enrolment could confuse some people. Because I got confused.
Instructions for how to enrol are here:
Sadly, I found this to be a tad inadequate. So I’m gonna try make this a bit easier for you:
These are the courses you need to enrol in. You should be receiving a letter with this information in the not too distant future, but for your convenience, I’ve placed the course codes below:
Semester 1:
15523
10474 + (one of 10454 to 10473 inclusive) + (11969 OR 11970)
(one of 10445 to 10453 inclusive)
11991 + (one of 11971 to 11980 if you chose 11970, OR, one of 11981 to 11990 if you chose 11969)
10092 + (one of 10093 to 10101 OR 14491 OR 18989) + (one of 11703 to 11616 OR 18961) (biology)
Semester 2:
25351
21768 + (one of 20454 to 20473) + (21746 or 21747)
(one of 28872 to 28880)
21769 + (one of 21748 to 21757 if you chose 21747, OR, one of 21758 to 21767 if you chose 21746)
20115 + (one of 20116 to 20124)
I highly recommend you choose 11969 and 21746 because that means your resource session is EARLIER in the day. This is a good thing. I also highly recommend you do not choose 10453 and 28880 because you will have clinical skills earlier than everyone else. There will be a Clinical Skills Portfolio which you will have to write throughout the year. For a copy of mine (which got A’s all the way through) see the menu on the left - “Resources for Adelaide Medical Students”. You will have to update this once per week - so it is advantageous to have more time to do it; I suggest Wednesdays or Thursdays.
Feel free to contact me (via this board or on the medstudentsonline.com forums) if you need further assistance with enrolling, or if this is confusing.
Your window to enrolling is Access Adelaide. www.access.adelaide.edu.au - the offer letter has your login details. Your login will be a0000000 where 0000000 is your student number. You need to remember this number. It’s important for the next six years of your life. Your password will be set, but it’s a good idea to change it soon.
Here, you need to fill in your personal details through the Students link on the left. This includes your tax file number if you are a CSP student (and unless you’re an international student, you’re one of these) and your home, mailing, and billing addresses, phone number and emergency contacts. You’ll also have to agree to a Declaration which you should at least skim through before agreeing to.
There will then be a “Request for Commonwealth Support and HECS-HELP” form which you will need to complete online. The Australian Government does pay a substantial amount of your fees to the university, which is why you have to pay a decreased Student Contribution in comparison to the actual cost of doing the degree. Of course, if you are an international student, you won’t have this option.
The expected completion of your program is 2013.
Now to the exciting bit. Remember those course numbers I put up the top? Click on Semester 1 and add all the semester 1 courses I have listed above, by number. The number you type in first, if there is more than one number for a course, is the number corresponding to the LECTURES for that course, if present. Following that, select the tutorial you wish to enrol in and click Add. Repeat for all the courses in semester 1, and then, click on Semester 2 and add all the semester 2 courses.
You will be able to print out a “Timetable” once you are complete. If you really want to, feel free to, but bear in mind that this is utterly useless, as it doesn’t actually correspond to the times you will actually have classes on, because you get a brand new timetable every week that will make it impossible to hold down a day job except if you work exclusively on weekends. Well, okay, you might be able to hold down a day job, but you get the idea.
Now, once you’re at the university, one final thing to do is get your student card. Conveniently, they will take a photo of you in whatever condition you happen to show up in to enrolment and then make it your ID photo. In addition, however photogenic this card is, this will have to last you three years, so try to look vaguely like you usually do. Or you can lose your card and get a new one for $20. You also need photo ID for this - so remember to bring your passport or driver’s licence to uni with you!
Enjoy, and see you around on the good side of Frome Road.
Mana
haha wow it’d be great to have a guide like this for UWS enrolment lol.
kc said this on January 22nd, 2008 at 1:03 pm
you are the king tony. makes my UniSA enrolment seem so much easier.
hachoo said this on January 22nd, 2008 at 10:26 pm
Wow, comments from people who aren’t going to be using this -_-. Oh well, thanks, i guess.
You also need for your first student card a printout of your enrolment for both semesters, for them to be allowed to give you a student card. Also I think that you’ll all enjoy 13 hours straight of Biology on the last day of Orientation, although it may put a bit of a dampener on Med Camp as none of you will get there on time
hey mana
mate, just wanted to clarify whether you’re suggesting op.2 over op.1. Correcct? could you also elaborate on why you think it’s better?
pm on mso or rep here. thanks
also, with bio, is it better to have the tute before the workshop or vice versa?
l3k said this on January 27th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
I am indeed suggesting option 2 over option 1. Why? Because early resource ends up being packed with everyone from the early session and some people from the late session. And if you find you need more time from the early session, you can stay for the second session - but if you need more time from the second session you can’t - they will ask you to leave. It also means that your PBL is later in the day - starting noon and going to 2pm, instead of 10 to noon - which means you will rarely if ever be late to PBL (which you are allowed to miss a grand total of TWO of per semester).
With bio, it is better to have the tute BEFORE the workshop - that is, 12-1pm. Reason is that you only have a couple of workshops per semester but you have one tutorial a week, and those weeks without a workshop you can go home at 1. Otherwise, you’ll have to spend four hours at uni doing nothing and waiting for the late tutorial, which to many people I know was a pain.
Oh, and for biology in semester 2 - same deal, earlier is better if you want to go home early. Later is better if you want the extra two hours to go and do your tutorial preparation - which usually took 15 minutes or so. So - earlier is better imo for bio.
thanks mana.
liv3k said this on January 28th, 2008 at 11:02 am
me again…
should I be having ~28 contact hours per week?
liv3k said this on January 30th, 2008 at 9:29 am
In the timetable, yes, but you won’t actually be having 28 contact hours per week.
Wow, I only just realised what Ego meant by the thirteen hours of bio… lol.