Course enrolment and changes

Information on selecting and submitting your optional course choices

Course enrolment for continuing students

As a continuing student you will select your optional course choices for the following academic year using Course Selection Forms. These are available in May each year and should be completed by 12:00 noon, Friday 29th May 2026 for academic year 2026/27.  Please see your Degree Programme Table (DPT) for your course options:

Informatics Degree Programme Tables

Selecting your courses

It is important that you follow your DPT and select the correct number and level of SCQF credits for your year of study:

  • Students in year 2 must register for exactly 120 credits of level 7/8 courses, plus any level 7/8 courses required to make up a credit deficit from year 1.  Taking additional courses for credit is not possible.
  • Students in year 3 must register for exactly 120 credits of level 9/10 courses, plus any level 7/8 courses required to make up a credit deficit from year 1 or 2.  Taking additional courses for credit is not possible.
  • Students in year 4 or 5 must register for exactly 120 points.  Taking additional courses for credit is not possible.

Some courses have pre-requisites, co-requisites or prohibited combinations.  If you do not meet these course requirements then you will not be permitted to take the course. 

Course Selection Support

If you have any questions regarding course selection please contact your Student Adviser directly or by email via inf-sst@inf.ed.ac.uk

Course Selection Forms

Course selection forms for session 2026/27 are available at the links below, when completing your form you should assume you will be progressing to the next year of study even though your assessment for this year may not be complete.  Please take note or save a copy of your selection as you won't receive email confirmation once your form is submitted.

Checking your Courses and Timetable

Not all timetable information will be available at the time of course selection.  As an indication, you can view current course timetables under the Course Delivery section of the Course Catalogue page in the University's Degree Regulations and programmes of Study (DRPS).  This section will update with 2026/27 timetable information when available from July:

DRPS: Course Catalogue

We will do our best to ensure there are no clashes on your timetable when we are allocating your courses but we will also be working with limited timetable information.  You can check the timetables of course combinations using the Course Timetable Browser tool:

Course Timetable Browser

If you have lectures that clash you must select different a different course and information on how you can change your tutorial/workshop/lab group for scheduled events can be found via Timetabling, including how-to video tutorials:

Student Timetables

Your course enrolments will appear on your record from the middle of August.  Please take action to check your online student record through MyEd to check that your course enrolment is accurate and up-to-date.  You can also view your timetable in MyEd, ‘Timetables’ can be found in the ‘Studies’ tab.

Check your online student record on MyEd

Course Changes

If you are looking to change your optional courses after submitting your form, please email your Student Adviser via inf-sst@inf.ed.ac.uk giving details of which course(s) you want to add and which course(s) you want to remove from your selection, including the course codes.

  • The deadline for Semester 1 course changes is the end of week 2 of Semester 1.  If you wish to make any course changes for Semester 1, please email your Student Adviser as soon as possible, and before the end of week 2.  After this date we cannot change your Semester 1 courses.
  • The deadline for all other Semester 2 course changes is the end of week 2 of Semester 2.  If you wish to make any course changes for Semester 2, please email your Student Adviser as soon as possible, and before the end of week 2.  After this date we cannot change your Semester 2 courses. 

PGR Students

Informatics PhD students who wish to take an Informatics course should follow the PGR taught course registration guidelines.

PGR taught course registration guidelines

Course Surveys and Course Statistics

Each year, we ask students to complete course surveys to gather information on best practice and for future improvements.  Course survey results from last year are published at the following link, along with lecturer responses and actions taken.  The course average and standard deviation is also available to you on this page.  

This information can be useful when making your decision on which course to take as part of your degree programme.

Course survey results, lecturer responses and course statistics

Auditing Courses

'Auditing' a course is taking a course as 'class only' without taking assessment or contributing credits to your programme. It's not possible to take Informatics courses as "Class Only", instead course materials are available via Open Course.  These pages contain course materials to allow students to engage with courses in a similar way to if they were registered on a ‘class only’ basis.  

Open Course

If you would like access to lecture recordings you will have to request this.  You can request access to lecture recordings for up to four courses in any given academic year via Open Course:

Request access to lecture recordings

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