Communications & On Line Student Administration

Student Bulletin Board

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The School of Civil Engineering is using an electronic bulletin board (or noticeboard) to facilitate communication with students.

Important notices concerning individual units of study, assignments, exams, job vacancies may be posted on the board. Students should feel free to communicate with staff and other students using this system. Note that you are required to register your details in order to post on this board, but registration is not necessary to read the messages.

The board is moderated, and any inappropriate messages may be deleted.

Students are encouraged to read the bulletin board frequently (as often as they would look at the regular notice boards).

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MyUni

MyUni. Details on MyUni, such as your username and password will be included in your “Confirmation of Enrolment” letter which you will receive after you enrol. MyUni provides students with an email account, and access to other important electronic tools, such as change of enrolment, exam seat numbers, exam results and access to some online teaching material through WebCT.

Student Email

The University supplies all students with a free email account which can be accessed via https://www-mail.usyd.edu.au/. Students should check their university supplied email account regularly, as many staff in the department may use email to communicate important information to you. Alternatively, you can configure your university email account to automatically forward all email to another address of your choice.

Students are responsible for reading their email regularly.

How to configure your university email account

You may have noticed when you use the web based USyd email facility that the recipient may receive the message as follows:

From: abcd1234@mail.usyd.edu.au

without actually giving your full name.

This is not particularly helpful for the recipient, especially if you are sending a message to a Professor or sending a job application. Also, many spam filters detect messages without a real name as spam, particularly if no subject is given.

You can easily configure the USyd email to give your name as well, by changing the options of your USyd email account, select "default identity" from the drop down box, then put in your address. Also check the box at the bottom that says "save sent-mail".

This makes any correspondence you may have with your lecturers or friends much easier!

Since an email address like abcd1234@mail.usyd.edu.au is hard to remember, you can set up an alias for yourself at the ITAssist email alias change page.

If you dont like using the USyd email account, then you can arrange to forward your email to another account of your choice via ITAssist Email forwarding page Remember though that the uni is not responsible if you forward your email to another account and you miss an important uni email because your own account does not work.

Also, please remember some basic netiquette when sending formal emails - email can be an official document requiring more care than an SMS to one of your friends. Professors and employers will note how well you write your emails.

* Please include a subject line.
* Sentences start with a capital letter and end in a full stop.
* "You" is not spelled "u".
* Start with a greeting "Dear Prof Jones", and end with your name "Regards, John Smith"