Frequent Asked Questions

In the first place, contact your Study Department clerk with any questions – s/he is here to advise you or refer you to somebody who can advise you and help you. Who your clerk is can be found on the PdF website depending on your current field of study.

IS passwords are issued in office hours by Radek Pospíšil (International Office) or Petr Šimík (Office for Studies). 

Cards and stickers are issued in office hours by Michaela Daňková (Office for Studies) or Radek Pospíšil (International Office). Students card or sticker can be paid at Cash Desk or thgough Shopping Center.

The confirmation of study will be issued in office hours by Radek Pospíšil (International Office), Petr Šimík (Office for Studies) or your study clerk

All kinds of requests (for interruption of studies, recognition of courses, for an exception from the Study and Examination Rules, etc.) can be submitted in the box at the Study Department, to your study clerk in office hours or to Mrs Mejzlíková.

You have to see the administrator to collect a new password (see the question: When and where can I collect the password?).

We do not send the log-in data (= password and UČO) by e-mail for security reasons. We are thus trying to prevent the misuse of your personal data.

You can collect the log-in data in office hours from Radek Pospíšil (International Office) or Petr Šimík (Office for Studies). To get the password, you need to prove your identity (with an ID card, passport). Another (but paid) option is to have the password sent by registered mail to your home address. You can find out about this option in the Shopping Centre

You set your secondary password in the IS by yourselves, click on the left bar in the IS at System --> Change password --> Change secondary password.

The card serves for:

• identification of the student (e.g. a teacher may require you to present it before an exam begins)
• entering classrooms,
• borrowing books from the library,
• the ISIC card also serves for application for student discounts  and for buying meals in the cafeteria.

The condition for manufacturing the card is your photograph in the IS and payment of the fee. If you were not photographed on the enrolment day, have it done as soon as possible. Information about being photographed at MU.

The cards are issued in office hours by Mrs Beata Mejzlíková.

• You order a card depending on the type of study:

1. The first card of a full-time student = ISIC
   Every student partly contributes to the cost of their student card. If you are a new full-time student, you order the ISIC card through the Shopping Center. The payment data will be displayed at the end of the order. Remember to enter the variable symbol carefully – the payment is made according to this number.
   Where and when can I collect the card?
   The cards are issued in office hours y Mrs Beata Mejzlíková. The card will be ready for you no sooner than 3 weeks after your enrolment to study; you can also collect it in the first days of semester.
   
   
2. Sticker for the ISIC  
   The ISIC sticker serves to prolong the validity of the card and you will need it when you want to apply for student discounts. The revalidation sticker has no influence on the validity of the ISIC card within MU. The sticker is not purchased for a new card in the year of issue.
   How should I order and pay, where and when should I collect it?
   You can order the sticker in the Shopping Centre and after crediting the sum to the MU account you can collect it in office hours from Mrs Beata Mejzlíková.
   
   
3. The First card of a combined student
   Every student partly contributes to the cost of the student card. If you are a new student in the combined study programme, you order the First card of the student of combined mode of study printed on a chip card through the Shopping Center. The payment data will be displayed at the end of the order. Remember to enter the variable symbol carefully – the payment is made according to this number.
   Where and when can I collect the card?
   The cards are issued in office hours by Mrs Beata Mejzlíková. The card will be ready for you no sooner than 3 weeks after your enrolment to study, you can also collect it in the first few days of the semester.
    
4. If the card is lost
   If the card is lost, stolen or damaged, the student covers the whole cost of production of a new card. It is ordered in the Shopping Centre. Only after crediting the payment to the MU account does the clerk issue an order to print a new card. You will be informed about the possible ways to collect it through the university email.

You must gain at least 20 credits in the last semester or 45 credits in the last two semesters and successfully complete all the courses you have repeated in the semester immediately preceding.
You must also apply in the appropriate period (see the Schedule) via the IS for enrolment in the next semester. The instructions for this procedure are available in Help with IS.

For more information see (czech only) Study and Examination Rules, art. 12.

OR means either one or the other option. In order to continue to the next semester you will need to gain either 20 credits for the last semester or 45 credits for the last two semesters. 

E.g.: You will meet the requirements for continuing to the Spring 2010 semester if you gain 43 credits in the period Spring 2009 and only 2 credits in the period Autumn 2009.

Tip: This option is often used by students when they go on a planned stay abroad.

What will happen if I do not gain 20 credits per semester (or 45 credits over the last two semesters)?

You will fail to meet the conditions  for continuing in the next semester and your study will be terminated.

For more information see the (czech only) Study and Examination Rules, art. 12.

The confirmation of study is printed directly from the Information System of Masaryk University (no forms to be completed) and will be issued in office hours by Mrs Beata Mejzlíková or your study clerk. The certificate is issued for the period of one semester.

These confirmations will be issued only for full-time students in the office hours by Mrs Beata Mejzlíková or your study clerk.

During  the course of study, a student must complete all compulsory courses and some (as instructed) compulsory options  in his/her field of study. Which compulsory and compulsory options there are for your field of study can be found in the Study Catalogue. The Study Catalogue is a recommended study plan and its equivalents in the IS are registration templates which help you to register courses.

Courses can be registered only in periods set for this purpose, i.e.  in the periods of Registration, Enrolment and Changes in Enrolment. In the Schedule you can find when individual periods take place within the given semester.

Register with the use of the registration template for all compulsory courses and, following the instructions in the Catalogue, also for compulsory options and check the total number of credits of all the registered courses in the registration. If it is less than 30 credits, also register for some elective courses up to a total of about 30 credits (if you are interested, you can register for an even higher number of credits).

According to the Study and Examination Rules (SZR) a student must collect a certain number of credits during his/her studies:180 credits in Bachelor programmes, 120 credits in Follow-up Master programmes, and 300 credits in long (five-year) Master programmes. When the required number of credits is divided by the number of semesters of the standard study time (in Bachelor programmes 3 years = 6 semesters, in Follow-up Master programmes 2 years = 4 semesters, and in long Master programmes 5 years = 10 semesters), we get 30 credits per semester which a student should gain as long as he/she intends to complete studies within a standard period of time

You will find the courses in the Catalogue of Courses on the web of PdF.

With the help of registration you can choose courses which you want to study. If there are no problems at registration, the courses will be confirmed in the period of Enrolment and Changes in Enrolment. Only by enrolling do you gain the right and duty to attend the course and complete it successfully.

Click: Student --> Registration and enrolment in courses --> List detailed information about the status of registration/enrolment.Red messages indicate problems; you will not be enrolled in  these courses. The problems are most frequently as follows:

• not meeting a condition for enrolment (so-called prerequisite). The meaning of individual prerequisites can be found in the table directly under registered courses. You will be allowed to enrol in the course only after meeting the prerequisites. Sometimes the condition is parallel registration/ enrolment in another (often elective) course (prerequisite NOW and the code of the required course. After registering for the course the red message disappears. The red message disappears after registration of the course.
• the course is designed for a different field of study than yours.
• the capacity of the course has been exceeded.   

In such cases asking the Study Department for enrolment is unnecessary, as we cannot help you. You may apply to your teacher for an exception in enrolment, and s/he may allow you to enrol after considering all the facts.The request is submitted via the IS on the first day of Enrolment at the earliest (after 17.00). The request can be dealt with by teachers only until the end of changes in enrolment. See the Help with IS for instructions on how to file the request.

So that there can be equal competition for courses the beginning of the period is set to 17:00. This is why from midnight of the previous day until 17.00 of the day determined as the beginning of the enrolment period or period of changes in enrolment the registration for courses does not work.

The Study and Examination Code in the interpretation of article 11 says that courses can be registered for during the periods of registration, enrolment and changes in enrolment. See the Schedule to find out which period is when.

After the Changes in enrolment are over, please do not ask the study clerks for additional enrolment or cancellation of enrolment in courses, as the clerks cannot help you.

During their studies, each full-time Bachelor student must complete two compulsory options of Physical Education (PE). Only one compulsory option of PE may be enrolled in one semester. Physical Education is provided for the whole MU by the Centre of University Sports (CUS) of the Faculty of Sports Studies (FSpS).

Registration and enrolment in FSpS take place on different dates from PdF. The dates are available from the Schedule. PE courses can be found in a separate registration template  in the IS.

Exemption from regular attendance at PE classes applies only to students who are permanently classified as medically unfit on the basis of their doctor´s recommendation. A request for exemption from PE needs to be dealt with during the first month of the semester and submitted in office hours to the secretary of the Department of Sport Activities (KSA) based in the gymnasium at Pod Hradem, Údolní 3. In every semester in which you apply for exemption it is necessary to register for a course in the IS called exemption for health reasons, code - P999. The form of request for exemption can be downloaded on the webpage of FSpS.

According to the Dean´s directive, all students must complete three courses for BP/DP. A student should complete all three courses stated below at one workplace (with the code of one department), otherwise he/she will not be allowed to take the state final examination (SZZ). An exception applies only to those students who interrupted their study in the spring semester 2010 at the latest for the period until their SZZ.

STUDENTS SHOULD ENROL IN COURSES WITH THE CODE OF THE DEPARTMENT AT WHICH THEY WRITE THEIR THESIS.

A student of Bachelors studies should complete three compulsory options for the Bachelor´s thesis
BPp_% Bachelor´s Thesis – Project
BP_% Bachelor´s Thesis
BPd_% Bachelor´s Thesis - Completion
A student of Masters studies should complete three compulsory options  for the Master´s thesis
DPp_% Master´s Thesis - Project
DP_% Master´s Thesis
DPd_% Master´s Thesis - Completion
(% sign in the codes stands for a two- to three-letter abbreviation of a respective department)

In the academic year AUTUMN 2010 / SPRING 2011 it will be possible to enrol in these courses at the same time, but in the following years a student should enrol in the course BPp_% Bachelor´s Thesis - Project in the fourth semester, BP_% Bachelor´s Thesis in the fifth semester, BPd_% Bachelor´s Thesis – Completion in the sixth semester of a Bachelors study and DPp_% Master´s Thesis - Project in the second semester, DP_% Master´s Thesis in the third semester, DPd_% Master´s Thesis - Completion in the fourth semester of a Masters Follow-up study or in the 8th to 10th semesters of a five-year Masters study, if he/she plans to finish studies within a standard time. The courses will be restricted by prerequisites so that the student must work on the thesis (BP/DP) over three semesters.

Click in the IS on: Student --> Registration and enrolment in courses --> Add courses by the PdF template --> Registration templates --> Template for registration and bachelor´s theses check or Template for registration and Master´s theses check.

No, compulsory options for BP/DP make up a special group outside the framework of other compulsory options.

The courses BP_%/DP_% and BPd_%/DPd_% are restricted by prerequisites on purpose. It is so for security reasons. To sit for the state final exam, you must pass all three courses with the new code, so you cannot enrol in the course BP_%/DP_% in the Autumn semester 2010 and Spring semester 2011 unless you have successfully completed or you are enrolled at the same time in the course which preceded it, i.e. BPp_%/DPp_% . Similarly, the courses BPd_%/DPd_% will not be possible to enrol in unless you have enrolled in or passed the course BP_%/DP_%