Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences news
Celebrating Teaching Innovation
FASS last week hosted its annual Teaching Symposium—a vibrant event designed to celebrate and share innovative teaching practices across the faculty. Held as a half-day program for the first time, the symposium provided a space for more than 120 educators to reflect, connect, and exchange ideas. Read more.
School of Languages and Cultures Celebrates 25 years
25 years from its establishment, the school of Languages and Cultures continues to foster pathways to understanding and encourage deep engagement with the diverse world we live in.
The School of Languages and Cultures celebrated 25 years with a lively gathering of past and present staff, alumni, donors and friends at the University of Sydney last Monday. Read more.
Announcements and notices
FASS News - Issue 264 20 November 2025
Latest news from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.
2025 FASS Newsletter submission and publishing deadlines
Content requests and updates
Who to contact for website and intranet sites maintenance requests and AEM access.
This is a list of University site administrators/webmasters and the websites they administer.
New Partnership Hub
The Central External Engagement Portfolio has recently launched a new Partnership Hub to help university staff access support for promoting themselves and the University as a partner of choice.
News and events
Building wellbeing in 2025
Explore the What’s on Wellbeing 2025 calendar and discover a wealth of events and learning and development opportunities for you to participate in across the year.
Popular FASS Systems
- Arts Explorer (needs VPN off campus)
- Sydney Curriculum
- How to guides for Sydney Curriculum Outlines
- Search for previous FASS outlines (2016-2019) - (log in required)
- Results Processing System (needs VPN off campus) (RPS)
- SharePoint 365
- Swift Digital
-FASS Exam QA
Events
Igniting ideas workshop: Cross-disciplinary collaboration
This workshop will bring together wet lab researchers, clinicians, computer scientists, humanities colleagues and more to explore the possibilities of cross-disciplinary collaboration at the Sydney Biomedical Accelerator. Discover how your expertise connects with others and could open new research directions.
Dharawal Cultural Day at the Museum
The Gujaga Foundation and La Perouse Aboriginal community are partnering with the Chau Chak Wing Museum to celebrate the University of Sydney’s 175th anniversary. Join us for a special day of culture and community, and learn from Traditional Owners about Coastal Sydney’s rich heritage and enduring tradition
Free Carillon Recital - Christmas Recital
The University of Sydney War Memorial Carillon is a much loved part of the institution's aural landscape, heard at our graduation ceremonies, weekly recitals, and many other events. Carillon recitals are open to everyone to attend.
Updates and services
Your 2025 Annual Review and 2026 Goal Plan are live in Workday.
As 2025 draws to a close, now is the time to reflect, prepare, and set yourself up for success in the year ahead. Annual Review runs from 1 December 2025 to 16 March 2026, and Goal Setting and Career Development from 1 December 2025 to 30 April 2026. Learn more about the PP&D process and set aside some time to reflect on your year.
Don't forget to send feedback on the Academic Excellence Program Review of Change report by 8 December
Read the Review of Change report and find out how to submit feedback. All feedback provided will be de-identified and addressed in the response to feedback published on the AEP intranet page in late January 2026.
Stay safe during the University seasonal break.
Find out what services will be reduced or adjusted to align with scheduled activities for the colleagues undertaking important work to keep University operations going during the break.
System logins
- Academic Planning & Development (AP&D)
- Automation & Innovation Hub
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- Citrix
- Concur
- Contractor Safety Management System (CSMS)
- Copilot
- Disability Academic Plan Portal
- Dimensions
- Docusign
- Email Office 365
- EmmaHQ
- eNotebooks
- Event calendar
- Exams portal
- External Engagement CRM
- File Sender (large file transfer)
- Finance EPM
- Finance Salary Planning EPM
- IRMA
- Lecture recording
- LinkedIn Learning
- Macquarie Dictionary
- Maps (Campus Maps)
- Marq (formerly Lucidpress)
- myHRonline
- MyLab
- My Library account
- myResearch Ethics
- Office 365 Portal
- Online Teaching Allocations (OTA)
- Password management (Okta)
- Payments to the University
- PeopleSoft financials
- Policy Register
- Power BI
- Publish Partner
- Qualtrics
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- Research Data Management Planning
- Research Education Candidature System (RECS)
- Research Professional
- Research Profiles Management (RPM)
- Research Supervisor Connect
- Riskware
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- SEAMS
- SensusAccess document conversion
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- ServiceNow Client
- SPIRE
- Special consideration and arrangements
- Student Survey System
- Sydney Curriculum
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- Sydney Profile Manager
- Sydney Student
- SydneyFMS (Facility Management System)
- Timesheets
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- UniBuy
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- Workday
- Workday Learning (formerly CareerPath)
- Workday learning (formerly CareerPath) for academic affiliates
- Zoom
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