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Free Registration for Short-Term and PhD Students – Desktop View

1. Go to your personal Home Screen. In the application menu, click on the Courses application.

View of the home screen. The Courses application is highlighted in the Favourites and All Applications menu.

2. The Courses application opens in the view My Courses. Change the view by clicking on the All Courses tab.

3. Click on the filter box Organisation and search for the organisation (e.g. faculty) where you are enrolled as a short-term or PhD student and whose courses offered you would like to see. The example below shows an African Studies PhD student at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

Please note: The filter works dynamically. The more letters of your search term you enter, the more search results are excluded.

View of the Courses page. The All Courses option is selected in the tab menu. The search term Phil is highlighted in the Organisation filter as is the Faculty of Arts and Humanities entry in the list of results below.

4. The page updates and now shows all the courses offered by the chosen organisation and all its sub-organisations. Click here for more details on the list view.

5. You may further narrow down or sort your search results, e.g.:

  • choose the term by using the filter Term
  • choose the course category (e.g. compulsory courses) by using Filter
  • choose the type of course (e.g. lecture or advanced seminar) by using Filter
  • search for courses by a specific lecturer by using the Search Bar

Click here for detailed instructions on how to use the course list’s filter options.

View of the search results for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Further filter options are highlighted: Semester, search bar, Filter, Title. The Go to Course Registration button is highlighted in the first list item.

6. In order to enter an application for a course during the registration phase, click on the button Go to Course Registration.

7. The view Course Registration - Select Degree Programme and Node of Curriculum Version appears.

View of the page Course Registration – Select Degree Programme and Node of Curriculum Version. At the top, the subject German is selected. Below this, the option Free Registration is selected. The Continue button at the bottom left is highlighted.

8. Make sure that the correct degree programme is chosen in the selection field Degree Programme, if you are enrolled in more than one degree programme. The option Free Registration is already preselected. Click on Continue.

Please note: If a free registration is not allowed and/or an allocation to your exam regulations (SPO-version) does not exist, you will be informed in this view that an application is not possible. If there is an allocation to your exam regulations, the modules of your curriculum where the course is allocated to will be displayed . In this case, choose a module to ensure a correct allocation to your exam regulations (SPO-version).

9. The view Course Registration - Select Group appears.

View of the Course Registration – Select Group page. On the Standardgruppe (Standard Group) row, the check mark in front of Anmelden (Register) is highlighted, as is the Register button on the left below.

10. Activate the check box for the registration and click on the Register Button. Confirm your registration by clicking OK in the two pop ups that follow.

You have successfully completed your registration.