Information for visiting students in Informatics
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General
Quick links (
Campus maps,
Semester dates,
Shuttle bus, etc)
FAQ
Self-isolation
Computing
Support
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Informatics Student Support (ISS) (e.g. health and wellbeing, disability, extensions)
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If you want to chat to a member of the Student Support Team,
please email inf-sst AT inf.ed.ac.uk to arrange an appointment. By default all appointments will be carried out digitally over Microsoft Teams. If it is important that you see a Student Support Officer in person, please add this information into your meeting request and they will try to accommodate this where possible.
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Informatics Teaching Organisation Office (ITO)
(Appleton Tower Room 6.05, Crichton Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9LE),
- Special Circumstances - illness, injuries, or situations that
negatively affect your performance in assessment, please submit a special circumstances form. It would be also a good idea to contact your Personal Tutor for advice.
- EdHelp - consolidated
enquiry service for students by the University.
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Advice and Support
by Edinburgh University Students' Association (EUSA)
- SliverCloud
(Online therapy) [FAQs]
- Course selection
- 2/3 of credits should be sought in the college that you
belong to (i.e. the College of Science and Engineering - CSE)
- Course registration
- Your Personal Tutor (PT) handles your course
registrations/amendments (rather than the ITO does).
- Course registration for Semester 1 should be
finalised by the end of Week 2 (17:00 on Friday, 30 September 2022), for which you should
send a list of your final course choice or confirmation of the
current registration to your PT via email.
(NB: courses outside the Informatics may have earlier deadlines and
the number of places available may be limited.)
- Course registration for Semester 2 should be finalised by the
end of Week 2 of Semester 2 (i.e. Friday, 27 January 2023).
Also see the above notes on course registration for Semester 1.
- It is advisable to avoid taking courses that clash on
timetable.
(NB: this applies to lectures only, and does not apply to tutorial/labs)
- In case that you need to take more/less credits than 60 credits
per semester, contact your PT for advise. We need a written
permission from your host university.
- It's your responsibility to make sure of what courses you have
been enrolled on on your MyEd web page.
- Lectures
- 10-credit courses give two lectures a week normally,
and 20-credit courses give three lectures a week.
You need to attend all the lectures of the course.
- Tutorials and labs
- Courses (usually, level 8 and 9 ones) may have tutorials and/or
labs in addition to lectures. They are optional, meaning you
choose only one tutorial/lab group that suits your schedule.
- Signing-up for tutorials/labs are normally done via the course page
on Learn, but this could be different for this year. I will
update the information if I receive any news, but please follow
the instructions you receive from the course.
- The way how the tutorials/labs are organised depends on the course.
The information will be given at the first lecture or on the
course page.
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List of Courses in Informatics
and
Outside courses
- Lecture
Timetables
- PATH (Course selection /
timetable tool),
Student Timetables ,
Course Timetable Browser
- Course web pages: Although the university has
Learn system for
hosting courses, many Informatics courses do not use it
- they instead have their own web pages inside Informatics,
whose links can be found from the
Informatics course list
or Informatics
course catalogue in DRPS.
- Past exam papers:
- Late coursework and extension requests
- Academic misconduct
- Student support
Paperwork for exchange studies
- If you have paperwork for your home university needs to be signed
and stamped,
please send it (i.e. PDF electronic version) to your PT and have it
signed by PT.
In case your PT is unable to edit PDF files, please send it to the
Informatics Exchange Coordinator, i.e. Hiroshi Shimodaira.
Exams
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Examination timetables
- Timetables for the December exam diet will become available in
late October or early November,
and those for Semester 2 Examination in mid-March.
- Note that you cannot ask the university to change your exam
dates because of your travel arrangements.
You should not book your return flights unless you have
confirmed your exam dates.
- It is your full responsibility to make sure
when your exams are held at which places. (There are always a couple
of students who miss their exams because they went to a wrong place
at a wrong time/date.)
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Exam FAQ
- In case of having missed your exam: contact the Informatics
Student Support or ITO and your personal tutor as soon as possible for advice.
There would be no chance to re-take the exam in the current exam diet,
but you would be able to sit in the resit exam diet in August if the
course provides a resit exam. (See the Resit section below)
- Your exam result will be available online on MyEd in early
February (for semester-1 students) and in mid-June (for all year and
semester-2 students).
Copies of your transcript will be sent to you and to your
home institution in February (for semester-1 students) or in
July (for full year or semester-2 students).
related link.
If you need additional copies, see this link.
- Resit
- Resit (retest) exams are for those who failed the course,
and not available for those who have passed the course.
Not all the courses provide resit exams. They are
basically available for non-honoured courses - usually Level 8
and under. Courses of Level 10 and higher do not have resit
exams.
- Resit exams are held in August. If you are not in Edinburgh,
you may be able to take them remotely. Informatics, however,
does not provide overseas resit exams. For details, see
Overseas Resit Exams