Starting at UTAS¶
Welcome to the University of Tasmania. If your experience getting settled in is anything like those that have come before you, I wish you all the best. It is however the purpose of resources such as this to facilitate your commencement and flourishing within the discipline and at the university more generally.
This is not negotiable
When you are welcomed to the university by your line manager or supervisor, it is critical that an account has been both created and activated such that you have access to the university's IT services. Help in setting this up can be found on this page; however, if you do not have an active account, it is time to head home, relax, and try again tomorrow.
- Inductions. Information on inductions can be found on the induction and training page
- Access Building access page
Finding information¶
Official UTAS communications¶
The university operates the bulk of digital services through the Microsoft Office environment, with the primary platform for the distribution of information being the Staff Intranet which is hosted on the SharePoint platform. In order to have access to the information and services hosted on the platform, you will require an account. Prior to your commencement, hopefully your line manager has organised a meeting with someone from information technology services (ITS) to arrange access, otherwise you will find progressing difficult.
The Staff Intranet provides access to a suite of services mostly maintained by platform-as-a-service providers. Depending on your role at the university, your exposure to these services will vary; however, it is almost certain that you will be required to use the Service Portal at some point. Indeed, for most requests for support, access, or to locate the vast majority of forms one might require, the platform is now necessary (or will be in the near future).
For staff that have just commenced, a checklist of activities to be performed in your first few hours/days/weeks can be found amongst the sea of emails which you would have likely received during the application/offer/acceptance process. In a cruel twist of fate, this information is tied to your UTAS applicant (pageup) profile, not your UTAS staff profile. Physical access
Actually useful communication¶
Your best hope of support and information are (in no particular order): * This website * Your line manager * The administration team * The facilities manager
Physical access¶
The procedure for gaining access to the physics building and the facilities contained therein is detailed elsewhere. The abridged version is that building access is controlled by swipecard, and offices and shared facilities are accessed by keys. Your first port of call should be the Morris Miller Library to obtain an identification card. According to the building access page, the service is available from 1100 to 1300, Monday through Friday. Further information
Further information¶
By design, you should be able to find all of the information that you require on this wiki; if as part of your commencement you go through an undocumented it, please consider improving this wiki by documenting it.
You can also find additional information on a similar site created for School of Natural Sciences, although as of November 2020, this site was both under development and not public-access.