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this is all at - http://www.uws.edu.au/students/ods/lsu/unistep_acprepregistration
you can register on pweb or with your uac number - but for pweb you gotta wait til your uws account is up and running - perhaps that's why you can't access it yet? if you only enrolled recentlY? coz your account takes a few days to get going..
the link should be working - just had a look and it's all there on my computer.. maybe your copmuter was just being screwy when you tried it before?
anyways here's the info for all you new students:
UniStep & AcPrep Registration
You can register a place online in any of our bridging courses (UniStep) or preparation programs (AcPrep). Most courses open for registration on 23 January, 2006. All courses are free to UWS students.
Information Sessions - information on courses & online registration
How to register a place online
Information Sessions - information on courses & online registration
The Learning Skills Unit is running information sessions on 24th January, 2006 to help you choose a suitable bridging course and to help you register a place using our online application process. Attendance is strongly recommended.
When you come to the information sessions, you need to bring your UWS course enrolment details and/or UAC course offer letter.
Penrith (Kingswood) Campus 10:00-12:30pm (Building K, Room: 104)
Parramatta Campus 6:00-8:30pm (Rec Hall, Building EGG, Room 04)
Online information about all bridging and preparation programs is available by the link on the left panel: UniPrep programs.
How to register a place online
There are two ways to register a place online depending on whether you have a UWS student ID or a UAC number.
REGISTERING WITH A UWS STUDENT ID
If this is your first time registering online we strongly recommend you go through the following information to help you register.
Step 1: Activate your UWS account
Before you can register for any bridging or preparation program, you must activate you UWS student account.
You can activate your UWS student account in two ways:
Go to a UWS computer lab and have a staff member help you activate your account
Access the MyUWSAccount webpage at http://myuwsaccount.uws.edu.au/ and follow the instructions
Please note: When you activate your account, you will be required to change your default password.
If you have difficulties activating your account, please ring the Help Desk on (02) 9852 5111.
Step 2: Register online
Go to the Online Workshop Registration page (the link for this is below but keep reading these directions) and choose the 'Register Now' link. Enter your UWS student ID in the Username field and finally enter your MyUWSAccount password.
Please note: Online registration is available from 23 January, 2006 except for the following Maths bridging course:
UniStep basic algebra which is open for online registration from 19 Jan 2006.
To search for a bridging course: You can use the search functions by selecting a course name under the workshop menu or campus, or a combination of course name and campus, eg. Academic Writing and Parramatta Campus.
Confirmation of registration: After you have registered for your course, a confirmation page will be displayed that summarises your details and those of the course(s) you have chosen. Please print this page and bring it to the first day of your bridging course.
Cancelling your registration: It is essential that you notify us if you are unable to attend a course after your registration, so that we can make your place available for another student.
To cancel your registration, please send an email to unistep@uws.edu.au and include the following information:
State you wish to cancel your place
Your name
Student ID or UAC number
Session code (as it appears on your confirmation page)
If you have any questions about these bridging courses, information sessions or registration online please contact Student Support Services at your nearest campus.
If the course you are interested in is full, please email us at unistep@uws.edu.au so that we can monitor more accurately the numbers for next year.
In the unlikely event of a cancellation, we may be able to offer you a place. In your email please include the following information:
Your name
UWS Student ID or UAC number
The bridging course which you are interested in
A day/night contact number
Proceed to the Online Registration page
REGISTERING WITH A UAC NUMBER
If this is your first time registering online we strongly recommend you go through the following information to help you register.
Go to the Online Workshop Registration page (the link for this is below but keep reading these directions) and choose the 'Register Now' link. In the Username field, enter your 9 digit UAC number and finally in the password field, enter your date of birth with the format DD-MON-YYYY (e.g. for date of birth of 06-10-1980 password is 06-OCT-1980).
Please note: Online registration is available from 23 January, 2006 except for the following Maths bridging course:
UniStep basic algebra which is open for online registration from 19 Jan 2006.
To search for a bridging course: You can use the search functions by selecting a course name under the workshop menu or campus, or a combination of course name and campus, eg. Academic Writing and Parramatta Campus.
Confirmation of registration: After you have registered for your course, a confirmation page will be displayed that summarises your details and those of the course(s) you have chosen. Please print this page and bring it to the first day of your bridging course.
Cancelling your registration: It is essential that you notify us if you are unable to attend a course after your registration, so that we can make your place available for another student.
To cancel your registration, please send an email to unistep@uws.edu.au and include the following information:
State you wish to cancel your place
Your name
Student ID or UAC number
Session code (as it appears on your confirmation page)
If you have any questions about these bridging courses, information sessions or registration online please contact Student Support Services at your nearest campus.
If the course you are interested in is full, please email us at unistep@uws.edu.au so that we can monitor more accurately the numbers for next year.
In the unlikely event of a cancellation, we may be able to offer you a place. In your email please include the following information:
Your name
UWS Student ID or UAC number
The bridging course which you are interested in
A day/night contact number
Proceed to the Online Registration page
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you can register on pweb or with your uac number - but for pweb you gotta wait til your uws account is up and running - perhaps that's why you can't access it yet? if you only enrolled recentlY? coz your account takes a few days to get going..
the link should be working - just had a look and it's all there on my computer.. maybe your copmuter was just being screwy when you tried it before?
anyways here's the info for all you new students:
UniStep & AcPrep Registration
You can register a place online in any of our bridging courses (UniStep) or preparation programs (AcPrep). Most courses open for registration on 23 January, 2006. All courses are free to UWS students.
Information Sessions - information on courses & online registration
How to register a place online
Information Sessions - information on courses & online registration
The Learning Skills Unit is running information sessions on 24th January, 2006 to help you choose a suitable bridging course and to help you register a place using our online application process. Attendance is strongly recommended.
When you come to the information sessions, you need to bring your UWS course enrolment details and/or UAC course offer letter.
Penrith (Kingswood) Campus 10:00-12:30pm (Building K, Room: 104)
Parramatta Campus 6:00-8:30pm (Rec Hall, Building EGG, Room 04)
Online information about all bridging and preparation programs is available by the link on the left panel: UniPrep programs.
How to register a place online
There are two ways to register a place online depending on whether you have a UWS student ID or a UAC number.
REGISTERING WITH A UWS STUDENT ID
If this is your first time registering online we strongly recommend you go through the following information to help you register.
Step 1: Activate your UWS account
Before you can register for any bridging or preparation program, you must activate you UWS student account.
You can activate your UWS student account in two ways:
Go to a UWS computer lab and have a staff member help you activate your account
Access the MyUWSAccount webpage at http://myuwsaccount.uws.edu.au/ and follow the instructions
Please note: When you activate your account, you will be required to change your default password.
If you have difficulties activating your account, please ring the Help Desk on (02) 9852 5111.
Step 2: Register online
Go to the Online Workshop Registration page (the link for this is below but keep reading these directions) and choose the 'Register Now' link. Enter your UWS student ID in the Username field and finally enter your MyUWSAccount password.
Please note: Online registration is available from 23 January, 2006 except for the following Maths bridging course:
UniStep basic algebra which is open for online registration from 19 Jan 2006.
To search for a bridging course: You can use the search functions by selecting a course name under the workshop menu or campus, or a combination of course name and campus, eg. Academic Writing and Parramatta Campus.
Confirmation of registration: After you have registered for your course, a confirmation page will be displayed that summarises your details and those of the course(s) you have chosen. Please print this page and bring it to the first day of your bridging course.
Cancelling your registration: It is essential that you notify us if you are unable to attend a course after your registration, so that we can make your place available for another student.
To cancel your registration, please send an email to unistep@uws.edu.au and include the following information:
State you wish to cancel your place
Your name
Student ID or UAC number
Session code (as it appears on your confirmation page)
If you have any questions about these bridging courses, information sessions or registration online please contact Student Support Services at your nearest campus.
If the course you are interested in is full, please email us at unistep@uws.edu.au so that we can monitor more accurately the numbers for next year.
In the unlikely event of a cancellation, we may be able to offer you a place. In your email please include the following information:
Your name
UWS Student ID or UAC number
The bridging course which you are interested in
A day/night contact number
Proceed to the Online Registration page
REGISTERING WITH A UAC NUMBER
If this is your first time registering online we strongly recommend you go through the following information to help you register.
Go to the Online Workshop Registration page (the link for this is below but keep reading these directions) and choose the 'Register Now' link. In the Username field, enter your 9 digit UAC number and finally in the password field, enter your date of birth with the format DD-MON-YYYY (e.g. for date of birth of 06-10-1980 password is 06-OCT-1980).
Please note: Online registration is available from 23 January, 2006 except for the following Maths bridging course:
UniStep basic algebra which is open for online registration from 19 Jan 2006.
To search for a bridging course: You can use the search functions by selecting a course name under the workshop menu or campus, or a combination of course name and campus, eg. Academic Writing and Parramatta Campus.
Confirmation of registration: After you have registered for your course, a confirmation page will be displayed that summarises your details and those of the course(s) you have chosen. Please print this page and bring it to the first day of your bridging course.
Cancelling your registration: It is essential that you notify us if you are unable to attend a course after your registration, so that we can make your place available for another student.
To cancel your registration, please send an email to unistep@uws.edu.au and include the following information:
State you wish to cancel your place
Your name
Student ID or UAC number
Session code (as it appears on your confirmation page)
If you have any questions about these bridging courses, information sessions or registration online please contact Student Support Services at your nearest campus.
If the course you are interested in is full, please email us at unistep@uws.edu.au so that we can monitor more accurately the numbers for next year.
In the unlikely event of a cancellation, we may be able to offer you a place. In your email please include the following information:
Your name
UWS Student ID or UAC number
The bridging course which you are interested in
A day/night contact number
Proceed to the Online Registration page
Copyright © 2004 University of Western Sydney ABN 53 014 069 881 CRICOS Provider No: 00917k
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spillargroove
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About the Academic Preparation Program, how essential is it for all First Year students? I don't need it but do the lecturers/teachers take into account that we all have had a long break since Year 12 and therefore, we maybe a bit scratchy with our writing?
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I hope they do...havent touched pen or paper for learning purposes for the last 4 months
My brains gunna take some time to switch off from holiday mode, like a few months
My brains gunna take some time to switch off from holiday mode, like a few months
= Jennifer =
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I did this academic prep program for that very reason because I needed to brush up on my writing after hsc because you tend to go brain dead in the holidays.
The lecturer was really understanding that heaps of people were brain dead and they just eased you into the course, they did not shove you straight in the deep end.
It is not essential for first year students but I found it a very big help as it showed me how university expects a different method such as harvard referencing compared to shoving a bibliography at the end of an assignment as we did for hsc.
It was really good in the way they gave this big handbook of how to write properly and I used it a lot for my first semester assessments and then after a while you get the hang of it
The lecturer was really understanding that heaps of people were brain dead and they just eased you into the course, they did not shove you straight in the deep end.
It is not essential for first year students but I found it a very big help as it showed me how university expects a different method such as harvard referencing compared to shoving a bibliography at the end of an assignment as we did for hsc.
It was really good in the way they gave this big handbook of how to write properly and I used it a lot for my first semester assessments and then after a while you get the hang of it
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uh... not exactly..spillargroove said:
lecturers may account for the fact that it's a 1st year subject so most people are 1st years but that doesn't really mean much... especially as there is unlikely to be only straight outa high school 1st year students only in any course, particularly at UWS...
and then again - there are also units which are half 1st year students and 1/2 2nd or 3rd or later year students who are doing it for an elective or simply because the unit is later on in their course.. eg - combined degree people technically do "1st year" units in 2nd and sometimes 3rd year so naturally they have a kind of advantage as far as all this stuff goes...
you are marked the same as any student, they don't know whether you're a 1st year or not when marking your work...
the A.P Programs aren't "essential" but i'd strongly suggest you go to one.. i didn't because i had to work and couldn't go and it showed in my marks.. the 1st few tasks i got barely C's... but by the end of 1st year when i'd got the writing style down i was getting HD's...
it;s not essential but you will be at anadvnatage if you do take it..
especially for things like annotated bibliographies which you wouldn't have done in school and even report writing as the style differs from what you learn in school
it also goes a little into research methods which again - very different from what you do in school as far as method goes...
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u can d/l the book for free off pweb now= Jennifer = said:It was really good in the way they gave this big handbook of how to write properly and I used it a lot for my first semester assessments and then after a while you get the hang of it
oh and a ps- unrelated
- omg we have Rajka Presbury for a unit coordinator again! i'm gona die!!! hYperTrOphY
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Where abouts?
spillargroove
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Does that mean that you need to attend both on Monday 20th and Tuesday 21st? Or is it just you go on Monday/Tuesday only?
hYperTrOphY
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Im assuming you attend both days because when I looked at the details it says: "Duration: 2 days"spillargroove said:
= Jennifer =
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noooooLaraB said:oh and a ps- unrelated
i do not want to deal with hotels :/
= Jennifer =
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I think you are thinking about mentoringDemandred said:
Nope . I went there for a day, I didn't go the next.
They ask you get brainstorm your expectations of uni and to read it out a loud, do worksheets on balancing uni and social life, how to take notes, when to listen, how to write an essay... well you get the idea.
. I went there for a day, I didn't go the next. They ask you get brainstorm your expectations of uni and to read it out a loud, do worksheets on balancing uni and social life, how to take notes, when to listen, how to write an essay... well you get the idea.
Not-That-Bright
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Yea I went too - It's exactly as Demandred says and it's useless... they make you write out a timetable for uni/home life etc... it's a waste of my time.
= Jennifer =
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oops sorry i went to the unistep writing one my bad
spillargroove
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What services are there if you have small problems whilst your into the course? Would you go to the Student support services for help with writing etc?
= Jennifer =
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Yes that is right. Also, a good idea would be to consult your tutor for the specific unit because they know exactly what they want to see when they are marking the work.spillargroove said: