Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences news
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We're partnering with communications specialists Inkfield on a project to develop a user-centered, single FASS Intranet site.
For more info about the project, its background and approach visit: FASS Intranet Project.
ARTiculate Program bridges high school and University learning
The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences is breaking down barriers between high school and the University through its flagship outreach initiative, the ARTiculate Talk Series. Designed to support Year 12 students and their teachers, the program delivers free, syllabus-aligned webinars that help students prepare for the Higher School Certificate while introducing them to university-level thinking. Read more.
Announcements and notices
FASS News - Issue 263- 6 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
Nano Health Symposium
Join The University of Sydney Nano Institute for this one-day event featuring renowned speakers discussing the discovery and advancements of nanotechnology and its applications in health.
Critical Minerals Network Lunch: Industry Engagement
The Critical Minerals Network, established by the Sydney Environment Institute (SEI), Net Zero Institute (NZI), and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, warmly invites academics from across the University of Sydney to our upcoming Industry Engagement Lunch Event.
Seymour Nights
Seymour Nights is back with free contemporary music sessions in the Seymour Centre courtyard on Saturday afternoons and it’s giving full block party energy!
Updates and services
Register for the Professional Services Review Webinar
The next Professional Services Review Webinar will take place on 25 November at 12–1 pm. Join Nicole Gower, Vice-President (Operations) and Bronwen Mather, Executive Program Director, Professional Services Review, to talk through the content of the discussion paper, which will be released on 3 November.
2025 close-off date for casual timesheets is 12 December
The 2025 close-off date for casual timesheets is 12 December, including predicted hours for the period 12 to 25 December, and must be submitted and approved to make the final pay run.
Disability Inclusion Action Plan consultation will be extended through 2026
Building on extensive consultation, the current Disability Inclusion Action Plan will be extended through 2026 to ensure strong foundations for lasting inclusion in the next plan.
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 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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