Understand your timetable
Your personal timetable contains information about the module and programme level sessions and classes you should take part in.
Most modules have:
- teaching classes which everyone studying the module attends together
- group teaching where the students studying the module are split into smaller groups.
Timetable publication date
You can view your draft timetable from the 29 of April 2024. These are provisional and should be regarded as an indicative guide that can help you to prevent timetable clashes when choosing your modules.
Timetables are officially published in September 2024.
Check your personal timetable regularly as they are still subject to change.
If you have any queries regarding your timetable after official publication, please contact the timetabler for your parent school.
Information included on your timetable
When you look at your personal timetable in default MyTimetable mobile view, you will a list of your upcoming teaching sessions and classes.
Module choices
Your module choices will appear on your timetable depending on the type of class or teaching sessions you are enrolled on.
- Compulsory activities – taught sessions like lectures that are not repeated will appear on your timetable the morning after you have completed online enrolment. If you completed enrolment after 10pm, they will take an additional day to appear.
- Group activities – tutorials or practicals that are repeated will not show on your timetable until after mid-July.
- Changed modules – if you have completed a Change of Module Enrolment form, the module will appear on your timetable after it has been added to your student record.
Timetable details for each session or class
- Time and day – the start and finish time of the activity.
- Module Code
- Activity name, (e.g. ARAB311001/LEC 1/01 <7-12, 14-17>) which includes the:
- Module Code – or codes for Jointly Taught activities.
- Abbreviated session or type of class – a lecture will be shortened to ‘LEC’ and a tutorial will be ‘TUT’.
- Your group number for your module. You might be in ‘TUT 04 but someone else completing the same module as you might be in ‘TUT 08’.
- Content for timetablers use in the < > brackets.
- Location – details of the location will be shown for on-campus teaching. Selecting the location name will take you to a page that provides directions to the rooms, along with other useful information.
- Teaching weeks – the number of weeks the activity is due to be taught will appear in different places on your timetable depending on whether you are viewing your timetable on a desktop or mobile device.
Additional information that may be available
When you select each class or session it will open to show you additional information, which can include:
- the full name of the activity type,
- module description – the full name of the module,
- staff name – the academic member of staff who is delivering the teaching activitiy to you,
- note – this is optional and could include topics, guest speaker names, or additional location information,
- recording status – this refers to on-campus teaching that uses the in-room lecture capture system. It can be a recording of the session, recording of audio and screen only, or note recording.
Abbreviations of types of classes and sessions
- LEC – Lecture
- SMR – Seminar
- TUT – Tutorial
- WKS – Workshop
- LAB – Laboratory
- PRC – Practical
- CBL – Computer Based Learning
- FIELD – Field Work
- DROP-IN – Drop-in sessions. These appear if you only need to drop-in at some point during the time shown and not for the whole time shown on your timetable, they can be optional or compulsory. If a drop-in session causes a timetable clash contact your school timetabler.
If the session or class is online, you might see the following activity types:
- LIVE STREAMING – the tutor will be live streaming the activity and will provide you with information on whether you will join on-campus or online.
- LIVE STREAMING – ONLINE – attend the activity online. Your tutor will provide you with information on how to join the online session.
- MULTI-MODE – this session will be delivered both on-campus and to online students. They will provide you with information on whether you will join on-campus or online.
- MULTI-MODE – ONLINE – you will attend the session online. Your tutor will provide you with information on how to join the online session.
- ONLINE LIVE – see Minerva – you will attend online at the time shown on your timetable, you will be provided further information on how to access this teaching by your tutor through Minerva.
- ONLINE - see Minerva – you will be provided further information on how to access this teaching by your tutor on Minerva.
- ONLINE - Pre-recorded – there will be a recommended time for you to engage with teaching that is not live to ensure you are prepared for any subsequent live sessions for that module. You can choose to access this in your own time, but it is important that you stay up-to-date with all teaching that is not live. Some modules you are studying may not show recommended times for pre-recorded content. The Module Manager will contact you to make sure you understand you need to access this teaching in your own time.
If you see a session or class abbreviation on your timetable and are unsure of what it means, please contact your school timetabler for further advice.
View programme, module and location timetables
- View Module timetables for 2024 – 25
- View Programme timetables for 2024 – 25
- View Location timetables for 2024 – 25
Questions about your timetable
Your timetable is displaying more that one module code
If multiple modules are taught together in the same activity, this activity may display all these module codes.
Please refer to your module enrolments to identify which module is relevant to you.
What to do if your timetable is blank
Your timetable may show as blank between midnight and 7am if the system is updating your record with a new module. Please check again after 7am.
If you don't have any compulsory modules (or your compulsory modules don't have any compulsory activities) and you have not previously enrolled on any optional or discovery modules, your timetable will be blank until it has been updated to include your chosen modules.
What to do if you get an error message
If you are a postgraduate student taking taught modules, you must complete one or more steps of the registration process and enrol on a module before your timetable can be created. If you do this before 10pm your timetable will be created overnight and you should have a timetable by the following morning.
If you enrolled on a module or started registration more than three days ago or are an undergraduate student, email the Timetabling team via timetable@leeds.ac.uk to report the error message. You should include:
- your full name,
- your nine-digit student ID.
If you need timetable information for module enrolment, you can access a programme timetable from the Undergraduate Programme Catalogue. Use this with individual module timetables to check for clashes.
What to do if you have a timetable clash
Email the timetabler for your parent school. You should include:
- details of the clashing activity, the activity name, and the week it clashes,
- your nine-digit student ID.
What to do if you have a question about a module timetable
Email the Timetabler of the school offering the module.
If you are concerned about a module not showing on your timetable, please wait until three days after it is added to your enrolment record before contacting the timetabler.
The timetable you have requested doesn’t exist or is unavailable
If you need help accessing the timetable, email the Timetabling team at timetable@leeds.ac.uk.