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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
Admin Network Group Q2 event
Open to all University staff, enjoy a special catering showcase from The Catering Department, and hear presentations from Professor Lucy Marshall (DVC, Community & Leadership), Madeleine Culp (Engagement Specialist – Sustainability) and Ang Taggart.
STEPtember 2026 is back – bigger than ever!
All throughout September, your team (or just you) will track 10,000 steps a day, your way. It's more than just steps – you can convert more than 40 activities including Pilates, cycling, or dancing to win big prizes.
'Lasca' rides again: poetry and passion on the frontier, USA and Australia
Friends of the Library presents a talk by Associate Professor Peter Kirkpatrick, on the enduring influence of Frank Desprez's Lasca, its influence on iconic poems like those by Banjo Paterson, and what it reveals about the frontier affinities between Australia and the United States.
Linking and layering: On the materiality of locality in Fijian fashion design
This talk by Heather A. Horst, Professor of Design Anthropology, focuses upon the ways in which fashion designers materially negotiate location – from social encounters across local, global and online spaces to ancestral connections and atmospheres – into their cultural practice.
Updates and services
Academic staff Career Development Session
Academic staff considering applying for promotion in the next three to five years are encouraged to attend the Career Development Session on 10 September. Colleagues can learn more about academic promotions on the staff intranet, or by contacting the APU.
We have partnered with Canva
Canva is an online graphic design tool, to provide all students with free access to their premium features. Canva Campus will be available from 24 August. Information and support with using the tool will become available on our Apps page next week.
Next week (24–28 August), the University will conduct a Teaching Space Utilisation Audit
This will occur across A22 Old Teachers' College and selected nearby teaching spaces. Student Life Ambassadors will briefly visit teaching rooms to observe and record room occupancy and activity information to help inform planning for the A22 Old Teachers College remediation project. No personal information will be collected, and classes, assessments and examinations will not be interrupted. Further information is available on the campus updates intranet page with a summary of activity available on the Semester Readiness page.
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
- emma (formerly 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
- Remote Support
- 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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