Entering your preferences

Use Allocate+ to nominate your preferred times for all your class activities, such as lectures, tutorials, laboratories and practicals. Your preferences are then sorted by the system to create a timetable that suits as many students as possible.

When to enter preferences

Preference entry is not based on first-come, first-served, so you have about two weeks to enter your preferred class times.

Check our Allocate+ dates page to see the timeframe to enter your preferences.

Enrolment changes

If you change your units in WES during the preference entry period, remember it takes two hours for it to show in Allocate+. Once the change appears:

• enter your preferences for the new unit activities
• check that your existing preferences are still valid
• ignore any withdrawn units (you don’t need to do anything with these).

How to enter your preferences

Below each unit is a list of activities (lecture, tutorial, etc). For some class activities, there’s only one session, so the system auto-allocates these sessions to your timetable. These are labelled READ ONLY, meaning you can’t make changes.

In the Activity column you’ll see the class delivery mode – for explanations of each delivery mode, check out the Allocate+ glossary.

Classes with parts – Part 1 (P1) and Part 2 (P2)

Part 1 (P1) and Part 2 (P2)

You’ll notice some of your classes have a P1 and P2 in the activity column. This means the classes are divided into two parts.

In the first option of the example below, the P1 classes are all held on campus at CL_Anc.19.LTB_305, and the P2 classes are all held online.

Keep in mind that when you choose an option, you’re choosing both the P1 and P2 options for the semester.