Frequent Asked Questions

Students studying in English programmes (ENG = language of instruction) should primarily contact Mrs Halfarová. She is here to advise, explain, or, if necessary, recommend a meeting with another competent person. Some specialized agendas (fees, cards, scholarships, schedules) are delegated to other staff members. A list of these can be found on the Office for Studies contact page.

There are several ways to restore access to the IS. Please read Passwords (log-in data for the IS) section below.

Please read Cards and stickers section below.

Please read the Confirmation of studies section below.

Please read the Requests section below.

The password for entering the MU Information System (IS), the so-called primary password, is typically obtained when you first enrol for studies at Masaryk University. Your IS "account" is created and you are assigned a UČO (university ID number; IS login name). If you have obtained a primary password at any time in the past, the system does not create a new password when you next enrol for studies; you use the original password.

If you forget your password or lose your password note, please reset your password immediately. There are several options – read more.

• We recommend using identitaobcana.cz the most (an existing electronic/banking identity in the Czech Republic is a must).
• You can also collect your password in person at the Office for Studies – during office hours.
• Sending it by post (to a permanent address) is more of an emergency solution. It is subject to a fee.
• Gradutates restore their access to the IS by registering at the Community Network.

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

The primary password is used to log in to IS and MUNI Unified Login, which provides authentication to most of the university's systems, including Moodlinka. The secondary password is used for other services that use the authentication means of the IS MU, such as the university WiFi network Eduroam. More information is available at https://it.muni.cz/en/overviews/what-is-the-primary-and-the-secondary-password-for.

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 canteen.

The card will only go into production if your identity has been verified that a photo exists in the IS. You will then place your order at the Shopping Center MU. There is a fee for the card (the first card is subsidised by the Faculty of Education, you only pay part of the full price).

Card production must be ordered at the Shopping Centre MU. From the time the fee is paid, cards are usually delivered to the faculty within two to three weeks at the Office for Studies.

First cards – I'm new to the Faculty of Education/Masaryk University

In the Shopping Centre you can order:

First Full-Time Student Card = ISIC
The only globally recognised document proving student status. Masaryk University issues ISICs with chips for use at MU access points (classrooms, library, canteens, etc.). Each student makes a partial financial contribution.

First full-time student ID card at the Faculty of Education of Masaryk University
If a full-time student is not interested in ISIC, he/she can order only a "regular" full-time student ID card. This does not entitle the student to student discounts from carriers and other retailers.

First combined study card at the MU Faculty of Education
Combined students are not eligible for ISIC, so the University offers its own smart card defined for use at MU access points (classrooms, library). Each student makes a partial financial contribution to the card.

Other cards – after loss, theft, damage or name change

In the case of loss, theft or irreversible damage to the card, the student pays the full cost of a new card. It is ordered again at the Shopping Centre. Only after the payment has been credited to the MU account is the instruction given to print a new card. You will be informed by e-mail about the possibilities of picking it up.

Mrs Michaela Daňková issues the cards at the Office for Studies during her office hours.

Recently Masaryk University switched to digital revalidation. The validity of the ISIC card outside the university is extended only electronically. Ordering of digital revalidation takes place at the Shopping Centre MU.

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.

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.

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_%