If you are an undergraduate or postgraduate taught student and your programme offers optional modules, you will be required to make this selection each year.  There are some programme exceptions where it is not possible to select modules on RISIS, where this is the case, you will be contacted directly to your university email account providing instructions on what you need to do to select your modules.  

Login to RISIS to check the requirements of your programme and please use the Ask a Question service or read frequently asked questions to answer any queries you may have. Our Module selection deadlines offer further guidance for your specific course.

Please note:
Some modules have a limited number of places, and you are not guaranteed a place by submitting your module choices. If you are not successful in gaining a place, the Module Selection team will email you asking you to select an alternative module (see ‘What happens if I am unsuccessful in gaining a place on my preferred module).

When you make your selections, please ensure that you save your choices and press submit. If you fail to press the submit button, your choices will not be submitted and you will not be considered for a place on your selected modules.

Some Schools send out alternative module selection information, but this is usually communicated to students ahead of their module selection period by Support Centres or Programme Directors.  Use the Ask a Question service to share your queries and contact the team.

You can find the list of optional modules available for your programme on RISIS.

1. Login to RISIS

2. Select 'Information' from the top menu bar

3. Select 'Programme and Modules'

4. Select 'Your module selection’

Support is available from:

• Academic staff - Speak to your Academic Tutor for guidance on which modules to choose to meet your academic objectives and interests.

• Online support - via Ask a Question service

• Email us at moduleselection@reading.ac.uk, using your university email account.

• Module Selection frequently asked questions for more specific advice

If you are studying at the Malaysia campus, please email it@reading.edu.my for support with your module selection.

The following Languages for all Programme (IWLP) and University Wide Modules (UWM) modules are available for the 2025 – 2026 academic year

You must ensure that you register for the right modules each academic year, including the correct compulsory modules for your programme and any pre/co-requisites for the modules you are taking, as well as the correct number of credits:

• Full-time undergraduate students must ensure that they have a total of 120 credits
• Full-time postgraduate students must ensure that they have a total of 180 credits
• Part-time students should be aiming to take half the full-time number of credits in each year of study, although some programmes do not follow this rule.

Some modules have limited spaces. If these modules are oversubscribed (i.e. too many students have enrolled on them) we will need to remove students from these lists. 

This is done randomly and we will contact you by email if you have been unsuccessful in gaining a place, asking you to select an alternative module. You will also be given the option to be added to a waiting list for the oversubscribed module. 

Please respond to this email quickly to make sure you have a full quota of credits on your record. It it your responsibility to check your University email account regularly and reply to module change requests any as soon as possible.

Module selections are not made on a first come first served basis, therefore as long as you select your modules before the given deadline, you will have done everything you can to secure your place on your preferred modules.

Once you have submitted your module selections, these will be assigned to your RISIS record. If you were not successful in gaining a place on a module with limited spaces, you will receive an email from the Module Selection team asking you to select another module.

If you would like to make changes to your selected modules you may request this, however, please note that you do not have an automatic right to change your optional modules. Consideration will be given as to whether you have the necessary pre- and co-requisites, whether there are places available on the module and whether the deadline for changing optional modules has passed. Requests to change modules can be done during the following periods:

• Module Deadlines provides the process and deadlines specific to your course and year
• You should continue to attend classes for the initial module selection that you made until:
• You have received confirmation that the requested change has been approved and processed
• You have checked that your requested change has been recorded on RISIS
• You have checked that there are no timetable clashes for this requested change in all Semesters.

If you have any queries, please Ask us a Question.

Your Semester 1 timetable will be available from September.  Check your timetable on Outlook or the UoR student app which will show all the modules you are enrolled on.

If you want to check whether a module you might want to take will clash with your existing timetable, please log into the University timetabling system

In your timetable, select the 'Toggle timetable list’ icon in the top right-hand corner of the screen (as above) and then click add, then click on the ‘Module’ tab and in the ‘Select Module’ field 3rd option in the list you can then add the module of your choice and click ‘OK’ button.  This will display your timetabled lectures, seminars and other sessions. If you have a clash you will be able to see the two events displayed as running at the same time.
Please note:

•    If your timetable clashes with a seminar/tutorial group, you may be able to switch to another group to remove the clash (please contact the Module Selection team to make these changes).
•    If the clash is with a compulsory module, you will be asked to change the optional module it clashes with.
•    If you have a clash over 2 weeks or less, this may be acceptable, and we would advise you to contact the Module Convener to discuss this.
•    Please do not request a new module change if it results in a clash with a compulsory module on your programme.
•    Adding a module to this timetabling platform to check for any clashes does not mean that you have been enrolled on the module, or that this has been added to your timetable. You need to contact the module selection team to request your module enrolment, after checking for any clashes.  Once module selection is complete, the new module will appear on your timetable within 24 hours

The timetable team makes every effort to set up a timetable free of clashes, however, there are times when these are unavoidable. If this happens, the Module Selection team will contact you and will ask you to select another module which does not clash with your timetable:

• If the clash is with a compulsory module, you will be asked to change the optional module it clashes with;
• If the clash is with a group (either seminar or lecture), you may be able to move to another group to resolve the clash;
• If you have a clash over 2 or so weeks, this may be acceptable and we would advise you to contact the Module Convener to discuss how this can be resolved.