AWM help
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).
Video tutorials in Interact2
You will find a comprehensive list of video tutorials for all aspects of AWM in Interact2.
- Go to Organisations and search for AWM in the Organisation Search
- Enrol in Academic Workload Manager (AWM) Training Resources (O-AWM_Training_Resources)
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).
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Access Own Terms of Employment QRG
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Access Own Workload Detail QRG
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Access Own Workload Summary QRG
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Access Terms of Employment QRG
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Action a Post Census Item QRG
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Add a Discipline
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Add a School to a Discipline
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Add a User to School Roles QRG
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Add a Verifier to Discipline Roles QRG
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Add a Work Item for a Non Sessional Academic
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Add a Work Item for a Non Sessional Academic QRG
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Add a Work Item for a Sessional Academic
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Add a Work Item for a Sessional Academic QRG
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Add an End Date to a Discipline
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Add the First Work Item for a Sessional Academic QRG
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Allocate Supervision Work for Honours, PhD, Masters Students
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Allocate Supervision Work for Honours, PhD, Masters Students QRG
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Allocating Work for Hybrid Subject Offerings
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Amend an Approved Non Sessional Workload
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Approve a Non Sessional Workload
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Approve a Non Sessional Workload QRG
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Approving Sessional Staff in Academic Workload Manager
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Approving Sessional Staff in Academic Workload Manager QRG
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Clone Work of an Offering, Subject or Other Work
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Delete a Work Item
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Delete a Work Item QRG
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Delivery
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Edit Default Planner/Checker/Approver
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Edit Profile Information for a Sessional Academic QRG
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Edit a Work Item
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Edit a Work Item QRG
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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.
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Filter Discipline on Non Sessional Workloads
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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.
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Issue a Contract and Schedule of Work (SoW)
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Issue a Contract and Schedule of Work (SoW) QRG
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Maintain Offering Settings
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Maintain Offering Settings QRG
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Maintain Subject Settings
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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.
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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.
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Move a Non Sessional Workload Back to Planning QRG
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Move a Non Sessional Workload to the Next Stage
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Move a Sessional Work Item to the Next Stage
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Move a Sessional Work Item to the Next Stage QRG
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Planning Contracts for Sessional Staff End to End
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Post Census Actions Training Session
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Post Census Non Sessional Guide
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Post Census Sessional Guide
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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.
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Retrieve Research Students Offering Code
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Retrieve Research Students Offering Code QRG
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Rollover of Subject Offerings, Workload Set-Up and Work Allocations
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School Administration - Discipline Roles
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School Administration - Post Census Actions
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School Administration - School Roles
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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.
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School Information Maintainer Training Session
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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).
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Sessional Registration Process
Distribute this guide to prospective sessional staff to explain the registration process.
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Sessional Staff Work Allocations Refresher Training Session
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Set Terms of Employment
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Set Terms of Employment for a Placeholder QRG
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Set Workload Planning Roles
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Set Workload Planning Roles QRG
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Steps for a Non Sessional Placeholder
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Steps for a Sessional Placeholder
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Transferring Work Items QRG
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View a Summary of all Subject Offerings in the School QRG
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View a Summary of all Work Items Allocated to a Sessional Academic
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View a Summary of all Work Items Allocated to a Sessional Academic QRG
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View a Summary of all Workloads in the School QRG
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View the Detail of all Work Items Allocated to a Sessional Academic
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View the Detail of all Work Items Allocated to a Sessional Academic QRG
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View the Status of Sessional Academic Workloads in a School QRG
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View the Status of a Non Sessional Academic Workload QRG
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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.
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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.
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Waiting to Offer Sessional Contract
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Waiting to Offer Sessional Contract QRG
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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
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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