History Examination Schedules and Registration via heiCO
When Does Registration for Examinations Take Place?
Details about the general registration period for all courses in the Department of History and the Department of Ancient History can be found on their respective homepages. Updates or changes to these will be published on the website of the Department of History.
Please keep in mind that courses administered by other departments may have their own deadlines and registration procedures, even if you can see them under “My Studies” in heiCO and they are listed as courses for History in the Course Catalog (VVZ). These processes are being streamlined with the continued introduction of heiCO across the university. If you are enrolled in a course that is offered by more than one department or is described as “interdisciplinary”, you can safely assume that they are administered with deadlines that differ from those of the Department of History. Please inform yourself about these deadlines on the websites of the department(s) offering the course.
Exam Registration via heiCO
Registration for examinations takes place through heiCO in all but the rarest circumstances. All information about the Registration (and De-registration) window for the examination in a course can be found on the specific course's heiCO page. Some examinations may have their own schedules and registration procedures, which will be announced in the course meetings. Please pay close attention to the guidelines and our FAQ: heiCO is not always intuitive for a first-time user.
Registration for an Examination means registering to receive credit points in a given course that you have visited, and does not refer to each individual course requirement that may be called a “Test”, “Prüfung”, “Klausur,” etc. Please spend some time to acquaint yourself with the guides put together by the university's central heiCO team: it can be a lifesaver!
Are you a student visiting the Department of History from another department at the university or as part of an exchange program? Please see the links to the right concerning “Free Registrations”.
Where can I find Instructions and Tutorials? FAQ on Moodle
Registering for exams via heiCO in degree programs like those in History, where students have a great deal of curricular freedom, can reveal thorny edge cases. Because of this, please spend the time to orient yourself with the user interface of heiCO and with the particularities of your degree program. The central heiCO Team has thankfully assembled a wealth of tutorials and tips, and the Department of History has assembled supplementary materials that are specific to History. You can access the later via the Moodle Course „Hist Labama“ [Registration Password: bamalahist].
Please raise any heiCO-specific problems or technical difficulties with the heiCO Help Desk. For general and legal questions about university courses of study, please contact the Service Portal for Students. The relevant phone numbers and websites are linked on this page.
Where can I find Examination Schedules?
If an examination consists of an oral or written test that is scheduled for a specific day/time, or if there is a deadline for submitting seminar papers, these will be announced by the instructor during the first course meetings. For Lectures (Vorlesungen) these dates are usually specified via heiCO.
Registering for the Bachelor's (B.A.) or Master's Thesis (M.A., M.Ed.)
Registration for the B.A. and M.A. theses is not done via heiCO, but rather through the Joint Examination Office of the Faculty of Philosophy and Modern Philology (B.A., M.A.). or the Heidelberg School of Education (M.Ed.).
