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For the user-role related enquiries, such as getting permission to access AWM, please contact your School Executive Support Officer.
Any other enquiries related to academic workload management or sessional contract processes can be directed to Employee Services (dpc@csu.edu.au).
User guides
A complete list of the user guides, quick reference guides (QRG) and documents from training sessions or presentations for AWM.
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AWM Role Permissions
A list of each school role in AWM and the tasks that it can perform
Academic Workload Adjustment for Extended Leave
Adjustments to a non-sessional academic’s workload may be necessary when they are proceeding on a period of extended leave (for example long service leave, parental leave or leave without pay).
Access Own Terms of Employment QRG
Access Own Workload Detail QRG
Access Own Workload Summary QRG
Access Terms of Employment QRG
Action a Post Census Item QRG
Add a Discipline
Add a School to a Discipline
Add a User to School Roles QRG
Add a Verifier to Discipline Roles QRG
Add a Work Item for a Non Sessional Academic
Add a Work Item for a Non Sessional Academic QRG
Add a Work Item for a Sessional Academic
Add a Work Item for a Sessional Academic QRG
Add an End Date to a Discipline
Add the First Work Item for a Sessional Academic QRG
Allocate Supervision Work for Honours, PhD, Masters Students
Allocate Supervision Work for Honours, PhD, Masters Students QRG
Allocating Work for Hybrid Subject Offerings
Amend an Approved Non Sessional Workload
Approve a Non Sessional Workload
Approve a Non Sessional Workload QRG
Approving Sessional Staff in Academic Workload Manager
Approving Sessional Staff in Academic Workload Manager QRG
Clone Work of an Offering, Subject or Other Work
Delete a Work Item
Delete a Work Item QRG
Delivery
Edit Default Planner/Checker/Approver
Edit Profile Information for a Sessional Academic QRG
Edit a Work Item
Edit a Work Item QRG
Enterprise Agreement Extract - Casual Academic Salary Rates
Schedule I Part B from the Charles Sturt University Enterprise Agreement 2023-2025. This extract provides explanation of the casual academic pay codes, including associated working time and examples of "other academic activity", as well as the scheduled rate increases.
Filter Discipline on Non Sessional Workloads
International Registrations and Workload Planning
A guide on international sessional staff registering their interest, how to plan work and the process for the Agreement for Services generated.
Issue a Contract and Schedule of Work (SoW)
Issue a Contract and Schedule of Work (SoW) QRG
Maintain Offering Settings
Maintain Offering Settings QRG
Maintain Subject Settings
Maintain Subject Settings QRG
Managers' Guide: Producing reasonable workload allocation
To guide heads of school, workload planners and school workload committees through the process of reasonable allocation of workloads. This document covers the development and review of school workload allocation policies; workload allocation and adjustments; and the differences with workload allocation for sessional staff.
Managers’ Guide: Producing reasonable workload allocations
To guide heads of school, workload planners and school workload committees through the process of reasonable allocation of workloads. This document covers the development and review of school workload allocation policies; workload allocation and adjustments; and the differences with workload allocation for sessional staff.
Move a Non Sessional Workload Back to Planning QRG
Move a Non Sessional Workload to the Next Stage
Move a Sessional Work Item to the Next Stage
Move a Sessional Work Item to the Next Stage QRG
Planning Contracts for Sessional Staff End to End
Post Census Actions Training Session
Post Census Non Sessional Guide
Post Census Sessional Guide
Repeat Work Items for Sessional Staff
AWM will prevent "repeat only" contracts being issued to sessional staff. This means, a contract must have an initial item as well as the repeat item.
Retrieve Research Students Offering Code
Retrieve Research Students Offering Code QRG
Rollover of Subject Offerings, Workload Set-Up and Work Allocations
School Administration - Discipline Roles
School Administration - Post Census Actions
School Administration - School Roles
School Information Maintainer - Presentation at AO Conference (2018)
Topics covered include the school administration menu, how to run and read the reports in AWM, offering and subject settings and their impact, understanding the status page and setting non-sessional terms of employment for new staff starting part-way through the year or those who change their fraction.
School Information Maintainer Training Session
Mapping of Sessional Pay Codes to Work Types
The mapping of work types and sub-types in AWM to the casual academic paycodes in the Enterprise Agreement. Casual academic paycodes commence with AX, MX (Market Rate) or CX (Subject Coordination Rate).
Sessional Registration Process
Distribute this guide to prospective sessional staff to explain the registration process.
Sessional Staff Work Allocations Refresher Training Session
Set Terms of Employment
Set Terms of Employment for a Placeholder QRG
Set Workload Planning Roles
Set Workload Planning Roles QRG
Steps for a Non Sessional Placeholder
Steps for a Sessional Placeholder
Transferring Work Items QRG
View a Summary of all Subject Offerings in the School QRG
View a Summary of all Work Items Allocated to a Sessional Academic
View a Summary of all Work Items Allocated to a Sessional Academic QRG
View a Summary of all Workloads in the School QRG
View the Detail of all Work Items Allocated to a Sessional Academic
View the Detail of all Work Items Allocated to a Sessional Academic QRG
View the Status of Sessional Academic Workloads in a School QRG
View the Status of a Non Sessional Academic Workload QRG
Viewing and Accepting Casual Academic Work Online - QRG
The steps required by a sessional to view and accept, decline or query work in the Casual Academics @ Charles Sturt portal.
Viewing and Accepting Casual Academic Work Online - User Guide
The steps required by a sessional to view and accept, decline or query work in the Casual Academics @ Charles Sturt portal.
Waiting to Offer Sessional Contract
Waiting to Offer Sessional Contract QRG
Work Type Definitions
Further details and examples for each work type - Update, setup, contact, preparation, marking, consultation, analysis, travel, supervision, development and other.
Workload Policy Development Training - Recording
From the Academic Workload Allocation Project, this training was held in August 2021
Workload Policy Development Training - Slides
From the Academic Workload Allocation Project, this training was held in August 2021
Continuing and Fixed-Term Workload Calculator
Use this calculator to work out the percentages for AWM where an employee has changed their circumstances during the year. This could include:
- starting part way through a year
- changing fraction
- taking extended leave
- moving into a leadership position