Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences news
QS Rankings: We Need Your Help to Showcase HASS Subjects
Our university participates in the QS subject rankings by submitting specific data. A decisive factor in HASS subject rankings are the academic and employer reputation surveys. We need your help in providing names for these surveys by 24 October. For further details check out the current issue of FASS News.
FASS partnership gives students direct access to talent experts from Nine Publishing
Last Tuesday Strategic Partnerships & Engagement hosted Careers at Nine: Elevate Your Career with industry partner Nine Publishing, giving students direct access to talent experts from the media company. Nine Publishing’s Talent & Acquisitions team shared practical advice on resumes, interviews, and standing out in a competitive job market. For more information check out Viva Engage.
Announcements and notices
FASS News - Issue 259 - 11 September 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
"Through my eyes" workshop - Learn to take great photos
Come and learn from someone with aphasia about how to take great photos using just your phone!
Designing assessments that are inclusive, valid and fair workshop
In this interactive workshop we will reflect on insights and outputs from the Maker Space event at the start of Disability & Inclusion Festival, examine key concepts and frameworks that support inclusive and equitable assessment, share practical strategies for designing assessments that are responsive to diverse student needs.
Sydney Ideas - Slow ageing
It's natural that as we get older, our body and mind decline. While we can’t stop the effects of time, what is possible to stave off the growing risk, onset and burden of disease and incurable conditions?
Updates and services
Microsoft support of Windows 10 to end
Support for Windows 10 will end on 14 October 2025. Microsoft will no longer provide free software updates from Windows Update, technical assistance, or security fixes for Windows 10. Please take steps to move to Windows 11.
Share your feedback on pre-qualified suppliers for event management services
Your feedback is essential to monitor performance and maintain high standards and help strengthen the quality of our supplier base. Bookmark the pre-qualified suppliers feedback survey to complete feedback after each of your events.
Critical risk management program – falls from height and acts of violence
As part of the Critical risk management program, materials to help you manage the critical risks of falls from height and acts of violence in your area are now available.
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)
- 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
- Records Online
- REDCap
- Research Data Management Planning
- Research Education Candidature System (RECS)
- Research Professional
- Research Profiles Management (RPM)
- Research Supervisor Connect
- 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 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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