Domestic student enrolment

Once you've received an offer to study at UOW, there's a few things you need to do to officially become a UOW student.

Enrol at UOW

Use this video and the step by step guide below to enrol in your preferred course at UOW. We can't wait to welcome you!

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Hi everyone, congratulations on receiving your offer to UOW. My name's Jared,

I'm from the UOW Future Students team, and today we'll be taking

you through the enrolment process so you can get started at UOW.

In this video I will cover everything from accessing the enrolment portal, to creating

your student account, filling out a government survey, selecting a photo for your student ID,

selecting your course on offer, providing your Unique Student Identifier (USI),

how to defer your fees to HECS, and also how to select your courses for your upcoming session.

First, we will start with accessing the enrolment portal. So, from our website, you can click on

“Students” and then scroll right on down to “Enrol in a new course”. From here, it'll take you to our

“Enrol in a new course” page. You can scroll down, click on “Domestic student enrolment”

and it'll take you to a new page. Here, you can scroll down again, and you'll see some

information about how to enrol. So, there's a few steps you'll need to do before you get into

the enrolment portal itself, like accepting your offer, and getting organised for enrolment. You

can click on the tabs here and read information about that. Once you're there, you can enrol

online and access the enrolment portal. Here, it'll take you to a new page where you'll input

your student number, which can be found on your offer letter, and your date of birth to log in.

The first step of our enrolment portal is the user account section. Here you'll be asked to

activate your UOW username, and input a password. This is very important information to remember,

as it'll be used to access key UOW systems, including your SOLS account. So your username

will already be activated and displayed here, and you'll input your alternate email address

to recover any information associated with your account. It's important to put in

an email that you can access to ensure that you can recover your information.

Our next section is our personal details section. Here you'll probably have some

pre-filled information, such as your name, date of birth, and student type. Here, we're just

basically asking you to confirm the information is correct, and update any emergency contact details

and address contact details. You'll need to put in your address for both where you'll be living

during session, and also your permanent home address, and that could very well be the same.

Now you'll be asked to complete a small survey. The Australian government requires all students

enrolling into tertiary institutions to complete a survey. If you don't know the

answer to one of the questions in the survey, just leave it blank and move on to the next one.

After you've completed the survey, you'll be uploading your photo for your student

card. So we ask you to upload a photo that's similar to, like,

a passport style photo. But essentially it just needs to be a clear, colour image of yourself,

taken from the shoulders up, with a relatively neutral expression, with nothing covering your

face. Religious headdresses and clear glasses are accepted, so don't worry about that. If

you don't have a photo to upload, you can just skip this step, and we can take a photo

down at Student Central for you, and print off your student card there once you're on campus.

Once you've uploaded your photo, now it's time to select the course that you'd like to study. So,

our select offer section will display all the valid offers that you have received at UOW,

and all you need to do is click to complete the

enrolment process for the course that you'd like to enrol into.

Once you've selected the course that you'd like to enrol into, you can input your unique

student identifier (USI). You might already have a USI if you've previously completed

study elsewhere. If not, you can jump onto the government's USI page and create one in about

5 minutes. Once you've got it, simply input it into the box and add and update the USI.

Now it's time to arrange your billing type for the fees associated with University study. Generally,

there are two fees charged to students: tuition fees for the courses that they've enrolled into,

and the Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF), which ensures that the services that

we provide to students remain up and running, and up-to-date. You'll need to select a billing type

for both your tuition fees and your Student Services and Amenities Fee (SSAF). Eligible

domestic students will be able to defer their fees to a government loan via the HELP Loan Form,

or the SA Help Form. To fill out these forms, simply click “Apply”,

and follow the prompts. Then, it'll ask you to elect a billing type, and you can select which

one that you'd like. Once you're finished, the HELP Loan Form and SA Help Form will turn green,

with a big tick, and display your billing type for the upcoming session.

After you've filled out your fee assistance section, you'll be presented with our

enrolment guide. So here you'll see things like major maintenance, the course of your study,

and enrolment and variations. So, depending on the course that you would like to study,

you might have major maintenance available to you, you might not. If that's the case,

you can select your major, and your other major, if you'd like to.

Now, you can enrol into your first session subjects for the course

that you've selected. Depending on the course that you're studying,

some default subjects may already be listed here for you to select from. If you're unsure

of the subjects that you need to enrol into for your first session, you can head back to

the “Domestic student enrolment” page, and look for our “First year enrolment guides”,

found under the “Get organised for enrolment” section. These will provide detailed advice

on which subjects you'll need to enrol into for the upcoming session. If you're one of

our postgraduate business students studying at the Sydney Business School, you can refer to

the “Study Sequences” for help with planning your course. And you can use the enrolment

variation box to add subjects for the courses that you'll be studying in your first session.

Once you've enrolled to your subjects, you can head to the summary tab, which will display all

the information that you've inputted into the enrolment portal so far. Make sure to check

this information is correct; some of it can be changed at a later date, but that's okay. You

can email a summary to yourself, which will close the enrolment portal and complete the process.

Now that you've successfully enrolled, you can head back to the “Domestic student enrolment”

page and scroll down to the “Once you've enrolled” section. Here, you'll find important

information about the next steps in order to get prepared for your first session, such as

setting up your student account with multifactor authentication, and accessing our key systems,

getting information about how to obtain your student card, attending your orientation,

and selecting your class and tutorial times for the subjects that you've just

enrolled into. There's also a section on preparing for your first weeks of uni,

which will give you important tips to get you started on the best foot forward.

On screen, you'll see some key dates for your upcoming session, including our orientation dates,

the commencement of your classes, the last date that you can enrol into courses, and our

census date, which is the last date that you can withdraw without academic or financial penalty.

If you have any questions about enrolling, or anything, basically,

about starting your first semester at the University, you can contact our friendly

Future Students team via email or telephone, and they'll be able to assist with your enquiries.

Lastly, we want to wish you the best for your student journey at UOW,

and we look forward to seeing you on campus soon.