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Dear Colleagues, I hope you continue to stay safe and well during the fourth week of Greater Sydney’s lockdown.

The North Gong Shuttle bus which operates from North Wollongong train station to UOW will not be running between 12-16 July, with services resuming 19 July.

A message from the Chief Operating Officer: The Premier announced on Saturday 26 June that all of Greater Sydney, which includes Wollongong and Shellharbour, is under stay-at-home rules until 11:59pm Friday 9 July 2021.

With recent COVID-19 positive cases and case locations identified within our communities and new mask requirements announced today, staff are reminded to remain vigilant with regards to Covid Safe practices.  These include:  wearing a mask is mandatory when in indoor spaces and providing goods or services to members of the public as well as use of public transport.  This now includes the Greater Sydney area including Wollongong and Shellharbour LGAs.  As such masks are required to be worn for indoor locations while on campus where members of the public (including students) are present.  This includes classrooms, Library, exams, service counters, Science Space and Discovery Centre.  Office areas that do not have members of the public visit are exempt.  Masks are available from the FMD Service Centre.  staying home if unwell and get a COVID-19 test if displaying symptoms  practicing healthy hygiene habits such as washing your hands regularly, disinfecting shared surfaces or equipment  checking in to facilities using QR codes  remaining 1.5m away from others where reasonable to do so and wear a mask where this can’t be maintained, and  check your eligibility for the COVID-19 vaccination and book your appointments.    For more information please refer to NSW Health Covid-19 site and the UOW Covid Safe Response site on the intranet. 

Unified expense training sessions will be held on 24 June 2021.

Unified expense training sessions will be held 9 and 15 June 2021.

New continuous and fixed term staff to the University will now receive their induction through the HR System Unified.

The upgraded version of Web Kiosk is now available.

IMTS will be conducting a scheduled outage this weekend from 6 pm Saturday 22 May to 8 am Sunday 23 May, 2021.

As part of the University’s cybersecurity protection strategy, and to align with the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) guidelines, the University  will be implementing multi-factor authentication (MFA) for all staff who access UOW resources and applications remotely.

As part of the implementation of the Unified Finance and Human Capital system a module for managing employee expenses and credit card expenses has been made live and the Serko (Zeno) expense management system will be replaced.

IMTS will be updating all Windows 10 machines that have been flagged as running an unsupported version to ensure these machines are kept secure.

IMTS will be conducting a scheduled outage this weekend from 6 pm Saturday 15 May to 8 am Sunday 16 May, 2021.

In April, IMTS took an in depth report to Council that summarised key achievements relating to UOW’s Information Communications & Technology (ICT) environments in 2020, and presents 2021 plans for continuation of UOW’s digital transformation journey.

Web Kiosk will be undergoing a necessary system upgrade currently targeting a Go-live date of 19 May 2021.