My Placement
My Placement is the system the University uses to manage student placements across the full lifecycle, from promoting placement opportunities through to feedback and evaluation at the end of a placement.
Please request access to My Placement via the Support Portal. If you need further guidance, please visit the Student Systems & Business Support Student system access page.
If you are a member of PS staff, it is recommended that you sign up to the My Placement users Listserv. Please email myplacement@manchester.ac.uk to request to be added.
All University of Manchester users can access My Placement using their central username and password. The direct URL for My Placement is
How-to guides
Introduction
My Placement: Enabling Applications
- Enabling Applications: Setting Up a New Programme
- Enabling Applications: Editing an Existing Programme
- Enabling Applications: Adding or Editing a Brochure
- Enabling Applications: Creating or Searching for Applications
- Enabling Applications: Troubleshooting Applications
My Placement: Application management
- Reviewing and Managing: Reviewing Applications to IPO-managed programmes
- Reviewing and Managing: Common application review tasks for non-IPO managed programmes
- Reviewing and Managing: Processing applications for non-IPO managed programmes
- Reviewing and Managing: Post-decision phase to On Placement phase
- Reviewing and Managing: Returnee Phase
For administrators
Face-to-face training
- CIPOMYPACAD Introduction to My Placement for new Academic users
This training is for new Academic users of the My Placement system and covers:
An overview of My Placement; How to manage student records in My Placement; How to create and manage programmes; Using basic query and reporting tools - CIPOMYPADMIN Introduction to My Placement for new Administrative users
This training is for new Administrative users of the My Placement system and covers:
An overview of My Placement; How to manage student records in My Placement; How to create and manage programmes; Using basic query and reporting tools