Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences news
Australia's oldest occupied Ice Age cave found at high elevation in Blue Mountains
Archaeologists from the Australian Museum, the University of Sydney and the Australian National University in collaboration with First Nations community members have unearthed 693 stone artefacts dating from the last Ice Age to the recent past. Read more.
Cogniti – an 'AI stunt double' for teachers – wins major award
A University of Sydney invention, which allows teachers to create "AI stunt doubles" to assist with their work, has been named a winner in the Australian Financial Review 2025 AI Awards. Read more.
Announcements and notices
FASS News - Issue 254 - 3 July 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
NAIDOC Week Cultural Tours with Uncle Jimmy Smith
Gain insight into the remarkable Aboriginal cultural heritage at the University of Sydney on a walking tour with Uncle Jimmy Smith.
NAIDOC Week Flag Raising Ceremony
The Office of the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Indigenous Strategy and Services warmly invite you to join us, as we mark NAIDOC Week on campus with a flag raising ceremony on Wednesday, July 9, 2025.
NAIDOC Week Cultural Tours with Uncle Jimmy Smith
Gain insight into the remarkable Aboriginal cultural heritage at the University of Sydney on a walking tour with Uncle Jimmy Smith.
Updates and services
My spend – Procedure to pay
Do you or your team need better insights into purchasing and payments? The My spend – Procure to pay dashboard offers improved visibility of procurement transactions from purchase requisitions through to invoice payment.
Your 2024-25 end of financial year income statement will be available 14 July
Your 2024-25 end of financial year income statement will be available and marked as ‘Tax Ready’ in myGov by 14 July. No action is required on your part, as the University submits income information directly to the ATO. You can easily access your statement via your myGov account (paper and email summaries are no longer provided).
Camperdown Campus boardwalk closure
The Camperdown Campus boardwalk will be closed for three weeks from Monday 30 June to undertake risk reduction works and make a safer campus for our staff and students.
System logins
- Academic Planning & Development (AP&D)
- Automation & Innovation Hub
- CMS - AEM
- Campus Assist Online
- Canvas
- Citrix
- Concur
- 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
- Marq (formerly Lucidpress)
- Macquarie Dictionary
- 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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