Enrolments
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New Students - Steps to Getting Started
Congratulations on your offer to study at UNE
As a new student you can now accept your offer and enrol in the units you want to study towards your course.
But before you undertake that step, first read.
Steps to Managing your Enrolment
Be sure that the units you select to enrol in for Trimester 1, Trimester 2 and Trimester 3 form part of the rules for your course, next read:
Steps to Enrolling Online
After enrolling online, you should re-check that what you have enrolled in will count towards the requirements of your course.
Finally, you should also access Going to University. This site contains a lot of useful information about undertaking higher education studies at an Australian university.
Continuing Students - Steps to Re-Enrolling
Welcome back to study at UNE
Before re-enrolling for the next teaching period you should allocate time to read the following important information.
Steps to Managing your Re-enrolment
Be sure that the units you select to enrol in form part of the rules for your course.
Steps to Re-Enrolling Online
After re-enrolling online, it is advisable to re-check the units you have enrolled in to ensure they will count towards the requirements of your course.
Steps to Checking your Progression
Finally, it is also advisable to access Going to University. This site contains useful information about undertaking higher education studies at an Australian University.
Teaching Material
Teaching material commence despatch from mid-December onwards for Trimester 1 and a month before the commencement of Trimesters 2 and 3. Materials are shipped on a per unit basis. Consequently, if you have enrolled in more than one unit, your materials will not arrive together. You may receive your materials very early in some trimesters and closer to the start of trimester at other times. Despatch is handled by our Teaching and Learning Centre. It is impossible to be specific about which units will ship first and when they will ship. Do not regard the teaching material as late unless it has not arrived by the start of trimester.
You are asked to check the contents of each batch of teaching material immediately after receipt to make sure that you have received everything on the packing list and that all of your material is in good condition.
If your materials are sent to a home address the package will be held at the local post office if someone is not there to sign for it. A card will be left indicating from where it should be collected. If you are concerned that your materials are late or have been lost, please check with the post office before contacting the GSB . We accept responsibility for materials to the point at which they are signed for. If they are sent to your work address it is your responsibility to liaise with your mail room to ensure that you receive the materials.
If your materials have not arrived by the start of trimester, please contact us immediately. If materials are sent late due to delays at UNE, we will advise the academic staff accordingly so that they can grant assignment extensions where necessary. When possible, we will post information on Blackboard to allow students to commence studies even though the full materials may not be available.
Customs Duty for students residing overseas
The GSB does not pay customs duty on the delivery of materials. The reasons for this are that most students residing overseas do not get charged any customs duty and if they do the amount varies. There is no equitable way that this charge can be determined in the fees payable. It depends on the country the student resides in and sometimes it varies, even in that same country.
The additional two hundred dollars that a student residing overseas is charged covers the administration and organisation of examination venues.
Delayed or Late Materials
Should your enrolment be held up for any reason your unit material will also be delayed. If you are worried about the late arrival of teaching material you should check with your local post office before making contact with the GSB Office. If you have not received your teaching material by the first day of the trimester in which the unit is taught, please contact the GSB office.
Though we try to ensure that all units are sent in time for the commencement of the trimester there are occasions where units are dispatched late. When this occurs we notify all enrolled students by email prior to the start of the trimester. We will place as much material as possible onto Blackboard so that you can commence study at the beginning of the trimester. Readings cannot be placed onto Blackboard due to copyright restrictions. We will endeavour to send texts ahead of the unit notes if the unit will be late.
Textbooks
For text book information please check the Courses and Units Catalogue or visit the United Campus Bookshop web site at http://www.ucb.net.au/.
Orders can be place online. In addition, United Campus Bookshops has a mail, telephone and fax order service. United Campus Bookshops are open from 9.00am to 5.00pm Monday to Friday and orders for texts may be placed by telephone on (02) 6773 2289 or by fax on (02) 6772 3469 or by email armidale@ucb.net.au.
Class Lists
Class lists are available on the myUNE student portal under the myStudy tab. Information will be listed for those studentswho have agreed to release it.
You are urged to form discussion groups if you can, but remember that they are not to be regarded as a substitute for, but rather as a complement to, correspondence and other forms of interaction with your unit lecturer or tutor in Armidale. It is often practical to form self-help groups which meet in private houses or at convenient local institutions, with the leadership of enthusiastic members. For many students the informal group which meets irregularly, contacting two or three others by telephone as the need arises, has been very useful.
Enrolment variations, cancellations and withdrawal
If you need to change your enrolment and it is still within the time frame to do so, follow the instructions below.
- Click on your course
- In the blue Online Variation Step click on the units link
- You will see your current enrolment displayed in a green table
- In the Action column click on the delete box to withdraw from a unit
- If you want to add a unit search for the unit code and add to your enrolment
- You must Click on ‘Save Unit/s and View Transaction’, to ensure your variation is accepted.
If you withdraw from a unit prior to the census date you can ask for a refund of fees paid for that unit through AskUNE, in the subject line type “request for refund” and include a note explaining what you have withdrawn from. This message will be forwarded onto student accounts who will be able to organise a refund.
If you experience any difficulties attempting to vary your enrolment, please email gsb@une.edu.au immediately.
Please refer to the principal dates on the current year's unit schedule at http://www.une.edu.au/gsb/unit_schedules.php before making the final decision to change your enrolment.