Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences news
Celebrating Teaching Innovation
FASS last week hosted its annual Teaching Symposium—a vibrant event designed to celebrate and share innovative teaching practices across the faculty. Held as a half-day program for the first time, the symposium provided a space for more than 120 educators to reflect, connect, and exchange ideas. Read more.
School of Languages and Cultures Celebrates 25 years
25 years from its establishment, the school of Languages and Cultures continues to foster pathways to understanding and encourage deep engagement with the diverse world we live in.
The School of Languages and Cultures celebrated 25 years with a lively gathering of past and present staff, alumni, donors and friends at the University of Sydney last Monday. 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
Yabun Festival 2026
Yabun Festival takes place annually on January 26 and is the largest community led one-day festival of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.
This is For Everyone: Tim Berners-Lee, hosted by Mark Scott
Join Sir Tim Berners-Lee and Vice-Chancellor Mark Scott to explore the past and future of the internet. Discounted tickets are available for University of Sydney staff, use discount code USYDSTAFF for 20% off.
Staff Welcome Breakfast 2026
We invite you to gather with colleagues along University Place and on the Front Lawns of the Quadrangle for a light, healthy breakfast with beverages and exercise classes in the Great Hall. The University's health and wellbeing services will be on site for a chat, and our crowd-favourite fitness classes will once again be held in the Great Hall.
Updates and services
Wellbeing support for colleagues affected by global events
Wellbeing support is available for all staff, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, through our staff counselling and coaching provider, Converge. Our Student Life teams are identifying any students who may be affected and are proactively contacting them to offer support from the University.
Viva Engage reopening postponed
The University is deeply committed to providing a safe and welcoming work and study environment and preserving academic freedom and free speech.
In the context of recent and ongoing legislative developments at the state and federal level, arising from the Bondi tragedy, we have decided to postpone the reopening of Viva Engage. This pause will allow us time to develop, socialise and implement some refinements to the platform's settings, particularly features that give colleagues greater choice and control over the kinds of posts they see.
Important information regarding a cyber incident
We were alerted to suspicious activity in our online IT code library. We took immediate action to protect our systems and community by blocking the unauthorised access and securing the environment. We have published information about support for our community and answers to frequently asked questions on our website.
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
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.
Read our Guidelines for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communication