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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
Free lunchtime exercise classes with Sydney Uni Sport
Take a break from your day and join Sydney Uni Sport for a series of free lunchtime exercise classes. You can choose from five different classes including Strength Development, Shapes, Cycle, Hyrox and Aqua, with something for all fitness levels.
First Nations film series – Ningla A-Na (1972)
Made in 1972, this documentary showcases the events surrounding the establishment of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy on the lawns of Parliament House. It incorporates interviews with black activists, the work of the National Black Theatre, Aboriginal Legal Service and Aboriginal Medical Service.
Community Festival
A day of ideas, connection and community, the University of Sydney Community Festival will play host to live entertainment and family friendly activities, inspiring talks, hands-on workshops and guided tours – as well as great food for you, your friends and family. Register one or more additional guests before Wednesday 4 November for the chance to win food and beverage vouchers to enjoy at the Festival.
Updates and services
Reminder: consultation on the new draft Video Surveillance policy closes this week
Read the draft policy, FAQs and provide your feedback via the University's Policy Register before consultation closes midnight Friday 16 October.
Enterprise Agreement bargaining
As part of Enterprise Agreement bargaining, the University committed to create a toolkit to assist colleagues accessing personal leave for reproductive, chronic or significant health needs. Download the Supporting You: Managing Reproductive, Chronic and Significant Health Needs Toolkit (docx, 2.6MB), which has also been shared on relevant intranet pages.
The UniForum Service Effectiveness Survey will run from 15 October to 5 November
It will allow us to compare our services with those at peer institutions. Results from the UniForum survey provide another source of evidence to measure our progress and inform our Service Excellence priorities as we work to make Sydney a better place to work and a place that works better. Eligible staff will receive an email from UniForum this week with a unique link to complete the survey.
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
We acknowledge the tradition of custodianship and law of the Country on which the University of Sydney campuses stand. We pay our respects to those who have cared and continue to care for Country.
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