Programme

1. How To Make Up Your Programme

2. Agenda
• Your Course
• Credit Transfer (UCL only Modules)
• Information and Registering for Modules
• Portico and Moodle
• Assessments
• Checklist
• Q & A

3. Your time at UCL
• Workload, lectures, examinations and assessment
• Access to UCL facilities
• Requirement to choose modules
• Credit transferred to your home institution
• UCL qualification
• Access to UCL modules only

4. Sources of Information
• Affiliate Tutors
• Module lists provided by departments
• Notes for Affiliate Students and Module Registration –
Student User Guide
• International Student Support webpage on making up a
programme of study
• Portico – the Student Information System (personal learning
environment)
• Moodle (virtual learning environment)
• Student Centre

5. Registering for Modules
• You will enrol in person
• Terminology:
• Programme = course = programme of study
• Course = module = course unit = credit
• Most modules worth 3.5 or 4 US credits/7.5 ECTS
• Structure of an academic year (3 terms, exams
completed in the final term)
• Admitted to a department (or departments)

6. • Main department – at least 50% of workload
• Second department (if applicable) – at least 25% of
workload
• Other teaching departments
Registering for Modules

7. 1. Consult the module lists provided by your
department/on departmental web pages
2. Attend the ‘Meet Your Department’ session (if jointly
admitted go to the first named department on your
offer letter)
3. Follow instructions in ‘Notes for Affiliate Students’
4. Check for timetable clashes and locations
Registering for Modules

8. 5. Contact Affiliate Tutor(s) as necessary in other
departments to agree modules
6. Register for your modules on Portico
7. Meet the deadline for confirming module selection:
15th of January 2018
8. Parent and teaching departments confirm selections
Registering for Modules

9. Portico – Login www.ucl.ac.uk/portico

10. • Step by step guide to
registering your modules on
Portico is available here:
www.ucl.ac.uk/iss/orientatio
n/affiliate-
students1/programme-study
Registering for Modules

11. Registering for Modules
Things to remember
• You must take the same full-time workload as a UCL
degree student, unless special arrangements agreed
• Your module selection is subject to departmental
approval
• Your approved module selection will appear on your
transcript

12. How will I be assessed?
• Varies between departments, so check with your
Affiliate Tutor/Portico record
• The modules listed on your Portico account will be used
to register you for assessment and examinations
• All students are normally required to sit all
examinations and complete all coursework
- Passing these will enable credit to be transferred

13. Assessment
• The examination timetable is usually available before
the end of the second term (February-2018)
• Do not make travel arrangements prior to examination
timetable production
• Do not leave UCL before you have completed all of your
assessments / examinations
• Transcripts - produced by the Student Records Team

14. Checklist
Ensure enrolment completed
Attend ‘Meet Your Department’ session
Ensure approval for all modules (both parent and
teaching departments)
Register for modules online via Portico by 15th of
January, making sure right number selected
Ensure you take all the assessments
Keep in touch with your home institution
Enjoy your time at UCL!