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Three FASS disciplines in global top 50 in the THE subject rankings
The University of Sydney continues to excel in the latest Times Higher Education subject rankings with six disciplines in the global top 50. Read more.
Announcements and notices
FASS News - Issue 265 -5 December 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
ANZAC Day Dawn Service 2026
This traditional dawn service, supported by the University of Sydney Regiment, is open to all and offers an opportunity to honour the ANZACs and reflect on the many different meanings of war.
Pride Culture Club: Sapphic Salo(o)n
To mark Lesbian Visibility Day, this event explores the rich world of sapphic culture through literature, poetry and beyond. Open to all, queer scholars will share original research, and you will have the chance to read your favourite sapphic poem or original work of wlw yearning.
Greenway Series: SCM String Orchestra
The SCM String Orchestra, conducted by Roger Benedict, presents a richly expressive program for strings spanning pastoral lyricism and contemporary Australian voices.
Updates and services
Watch the recording of the Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET) Town Hall
Access the webinar recording, a summary of questions raised via Slido, and links to further information and support on the SET and Teacher Check-In (TCI) initiatives.
Share your feedback on the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Policy 2026
Submit your feedback by Monday 27 April to help shape a policy that supports a safe, healthy and thriving community for all.
Temporary partial closure of Western Avenue and Science Road 22–24 April
This is to install interim pedestrian safety measures at the Western Avenue entrance. Traffic controllers will be onsite to guide pedestrians and vehicles, with local access maintained.
System logins
- Academic Planning & Development (AP&D)
- Automation & Innovation Hub
- CMS - AEM
- Campus Assist Online
- Canvas
- 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)
- 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
- Records Online
- REDCap
- Research Data Management Planning
- Research Education Candidature System (RECS)
- Research Professional
- Riskware
- Room bookings (resource booker)
- SEAMS
- SensusAccess document conversion
- Service Portal
- ServiceNow Client
- SPIRE
- Special consideration and arrangements
- Student Survey System
- Sydney Curriculum
- Sydney Insights (formerly Insights Hub)
- Sydney Profile Manager
- Sydney Student
- SydneyFMS (Facility Management System)
- Timesheets
- Timetabling
- UniBuy
- Viva Engage (Yammer)
- Workday
- Workday Learning (formerly CareerPath)
- Workday learning (formerly CareerPath) for academic affiliates
- Zoom
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