Guide to Workday Mobile
Workday Mobile closely mirrors the desktop experience and provides easy access to actions and tasks such as viewing payslips and My Tasks, searching people, viewing and requesting time off and more.
What is mcEmpirics ?
What is mcEmpirics?
mcEmpirics is an e-learning website providing access to a large number of quiz questions for students of introductory and intermediate applied micro-econometrics to practice and assess their knowledge of econometrics. Read more here.
Work Allocation and Timesheet Guidelines for Casual Academic Staff
To ensure consistency in the engagement and payment of casual academic staff in accordance with the University of Sydney Enterprise Agreement 2023-2026 (Enterprise Agreement), the following business guidelines have been summarised for managers (including staff allocating work to casual academic employees and approving timesheets) and casual academic staff members (including those employed on a sessional basis).
It is important that the following guidelines are carefully reviewed and implemented as soon as possible by every Faculty and School. As the engagement of casual academic staff occurs across the University, it is essential that we have a consistent understanding, and approach to managing our casual academic workforce to ensure we comply with our obligations under the Enterprise Agreement.
How to access the Online Teaching Allocations (OTA) tool
This guide outlines the process for accessing the OTA Tool:
- Directly
- via the OTA Portal
Types of events that can be held in a University venue
This article provides information on what kind of events can be held at a University venue, as well as what types of events are not allowed. Some events are only allowed if certain criteria are met.
How to Check a Users Access to SharePoint Document.
At times it is important to check what access a user has to a SharePoint Document. This can help to understand why a user might not be able to access a resource.
How to apply for Affiliation with the University of Sydney
An affiliate is an individual, who is not a paid staff member (including casuals) of the University, but who is:
- appointed or engaged by the University to perform duties or functions, and/or;
- recognised for their contribution to the University (as per Affiliate Policy).
There are currently different processes that are followed across the University to process Affiliate applications. Work is underway to establish a streamlined process across the University, and will be updated accordingly in the steps below.
How to enter, submit and remove a pending allocation in OTA
The process below is used for for entering required work allocations for teaching activities, both timetabled and non-timetabled, for fixed-term, continuing, and casual academic staff, and then seeking approval.
How to Check a Users Access to SharePoint Site.
At times it is important to check what access a user has to a SharePoint Site. This can help to understand why a user might not be able to access a resource.
How to access Signals ChemDraw?
Signals ChemDraw is a Chemistry and Biology drawing and analysis suite.
As of March 2025, the vendor Revvity is decommissioning ChemOffice replacing it with Signals ChemDraw
In order to use this you will require a Revvity Signals account.
The new (Signals) platform will also include Signals Notebook Standard.
Note: Our subscription does not include the other flavours, Notebook Enhanced Enterprise (E3) and Notebook Private Cloud.
Staff and Post graduate Students may request a Revvity Signals account form here.
Undergraduate Student accounts will be requested via their Unit of Study Co-ordinators or equivalent School administration teams. Please do not raise access requests via this form.
Report an issue with a booked venue
If you experience any issues with the venue you have booked, you can reach out to your assigned University Venues Officer for help.
Wide-scale outage of University systems and websites - Thursday 5 November 2020
The Information and Communications Technology Incident Management team is currently investigating the cause of a wide-scale outage on systems and websites, including those listed below.
It seems your experience may be different depending on whether you are working from campus or remotely.
Changes to your University supplied SydneyMail email account
Why is my email changing?
In 2019 the University made the decision to cease the continued access of University supplied email and Office365 to non enrolled student. This was driven by the University's commitment to improve the quality of the services for its active users.
OTA: How to check if I have any approvals to review or approve
This process details how to check if you have any approvals outstanding for review or approval through the OTA portal.
How to Check a Users Access to SharePoint Document Library/List.
At times it is important to check what access a user has to a SharePoint Document Library or List. This can help to understand why a user might not be able to access a resource.
How to use Class View to add casual academics by week
The below guide will provide steps on the process for entering in Class View in order to add different educators to the same class in different weeks. Often, there will be different academics presenting or tutoring in different weeks.
How to approve or reject hours for work allocations (OTA Delegated Approver role)
Please refer to the below process for approving or rejecting hours submitted for work allocations.
Audio Visual (AV) services at the University
AV includes all services that use sound and vision to broadcast information, such as:
- Lecture theatres and seminar room presentation AV
- Videoconferencing
- Lecture recording
- Meeting room AV and Zoom Rooms
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