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About my.UQ for Staff

my.UQ is your personalised portal or doorway to the services you need as a UQ staff member, delivering a web-based system to improve access to applications and information, providing financial, communication and functional benefits to staff.

You can perform all of the following functions with secured single sign on:

  • access your UQ email
  • view your UQ wide calendar
  • see university announcements
  • see messages and reminders from your organisational unit
  • send bulk emails based on a variety of selection criteria to staff and students (for selected staff in the first release)
  • access corporate and desktop applications from any personal computer
  • find out what's happening at UQ and around the world
  • search University directories, campus websites and more
  • access newsgroups
  • look up today's weather around the world
  • write and send UQ e-cards

In addition, the portal has the following features:

Personalise & Customise
  • Ability to individualise personal workspace
  • Ability to customise the content to suit an individual
Distributed Administrative Privileges
  • Administrators can grant administrative tool privileges to selected modules to faculty and staff members.

Some benefits of the systems to the University

Financial Benefits
  • Reduced maintenance of desktop applications and efficiencies through the broad application of common standards.
Functional Benefits
  • Better access to applications, services and information, providing secure access to files from any location with Internet access.
Communication Benefits
  • Improved distribution of information to individuals and groups using broad and targeted in-built communication systems.

What will my.UQ do for me?

Executive
  • Extends the reach of your unit to everyone in your community
  • Efficiently communicates to groups within the campus community
Faculty
  • Increases communication with students regarding course work, class assignments and learning initiatives
  • Facilitates student-to-student and student-to-lecturer communication
  • Streamlines administrative tasks
General Staff
  • Provides one location to access UQ related information and services
  • Facilitates communication and interaction with colleagues
  • Provides one location to access UQ related information and services
  • Gives global access to information using a web browser
  • Enables easy management of appointments using the online campus calendars
  • Allows for personalised and customised information


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Last Updated - Sep 18, 2003