Registration for courses and examinations
New international students must register for courses chosen within two weeks of the beginning of a semester. The courses registered make up the student’s study plan for the current semester. Starting from the 2nd semester, the student has to register for courses by the beginning of the semester.
All students must register for courses in the Study Information System (SIS or ÕIS in Estonian). If you fail to register for some reason, please contact the dean’s office of the faculty teaching the course.
For registration to courses in SIS (www.ut.ee/en/studies/study-regulations/system) one must have a username and password which was sent to all exchange and visiting students by email before the beginning of the current semester. Degree seeking students should pick up their user name and password from the dean’s office of a faculty they are registered to.
If you have not received your username, please contact your coordinator at UT. You can always ask your tutor for help with registration.
Some basic instructions to make registration for courses easier:
- Use your username and password to log into the Study Information System.
- In order to register for courses select “Registration for courses and exams”.
- Choose the correct academic year and semester and click on “Add courses".
- The same layout will appear as given below.
- When the results appear, tick the course you wish to register for and click on “Register for courses selected”.
- If you wish to register for another course, repeat the procedure.
- In case you do not get any results or get too many, make sure that you have followed the instructions correctly and that there are no mistakes either in the numerical course code, a word in course title or any other fields.
- It is just as easy as that!
Detailed guidelines for registration for courses.
Exchange and visiting students
The exams can be held in December, but most of them are held throughout January, so keep that in mind. Make sure to check upon exam dates before booking your flights to leave Estonia.
International exchange and visiting students cannot register to the English-taught courses of Open University, thus if there is an abbreviation “OU” in the Study Information System, the course is not open for registration for international students.
At the end of the semester you will receive an official document from the dean’s office, with credits and grades, to be taken to your university – Transcript of Academic Records. The transcripts are issued by the dean’s office a student is registered to.
Dean’s office will send you the transcript by post to the address which is in the Study Information System. The transcripts will not be sent by post unless student asks for that.
Students of the intensive Estonian language course
In addition to SIS, students can register for language courses at the Language Centre. A timetable will be provided at the Orientation Course. The first meeting for intensive language courses will be announced at the Orientation Course.
Detailed guidelines for registration
On the main page of the registration module you will see the academic year, the semester and the list of the courses and examinations for which the student has already registered.
In order to register for a new course click the "Add courses" button on the main page of the module. A search form will be displayed on the screen. You can search for courses according to the courses in your curriculum, also on the basis of schedule, courses or the time when the courses are taught. Please double-check the academic year and the semester on which the course is taught. Click "Search".
You will now see a list of courses that are open to registration. The courses for which you have already registered, will not be included in the list. The list will provide you with the following data for every course:
• course code,
• title, credits, study form of the course
• times when the course is taught and the schedule related to the course,
• dates of opening and closing registration for the course,
• specification on whether there are open groups,
• remarks.
In order to register for a course, please click the "Select" checkbox. Now click "Register for courses selected". In case there are groups opened in the course, you will also have to choose the group.
When you are trying to register to a course, the program will also check the following
• whether the student has passed the obligatory prerequisite courses,
• whether the student already has a positive result in the given course,
• whether the maximum number of participants has already been reached.
Cancelling registration
In order to cancel your registration you need to click on the "Cancel registration" link at the end of the relevant course line in the course list.
Follow similar procedures when cancelling registrations for examinations.
Registration for examinations
The prerequisite to registering for examinations is that you have registered yourself to the corresponding course before that. Once the details of the examination have been stored in the database you will see the "register for examination" link in the last column of the course list. In order to register yourself please click "register for examination". Now choose the time of the examination and click "Save".