What is vUWS?

The UWS e-learning environment is known as 'virtual UWS' or vUWS to students and staff, and over 90% of units have a vUWS presence.

Important News

Weekly maintenance occurs from 11:00pm each Friday night until 3:00am on Saturday morning. vUWS will be unavailable during these times.

All other scheduled maintenance will be advised via the Announcements facility within vUWS.

Support

Answers to common enquiries about vUWS, instruction guides and interactive viewlets are available from within the E-Learning Student Support site. All students have access to this site once you have logged into vUWS.

Similar resources are available to staff via the E-Learning Staff Support site.

A Help link is also available at the top of each screen providing tool specific instructions.

For any other issues, please use the Help Forms provided below.

Student Help Form

Staff Help Form

 
Enter your MyUWSAccount
and Password to login
 
Access is provided to you for the official business of the University for which you have authorisation and your use must comply with the IT Acceptable Use of Resources Policy and other relevant UWS policies.

FIRST TIME LOGIN

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If you haven't already done so, please activate your MyUWSAccount. If you have, and are still having problems, check that your password hasn't expired, reset it if you need to at Manage MyUWSAccount.

If you are not a permanent staff member and require access to UWS IT services and authenticated UWS web sites, please ask your supervisor to complete a UWS UserID and Services Request.



Before logging in, it is recommended that you perform a browser check to see if your computer is properly configured to use vUWS.

Check Browser

If the Browser Check identifies that your Java is not suitable then please access the appropriate instructions below:

Using a UWS Computer

Using a non-UWS Computer



After logging in to vUWS, you will be prompted to accept a Java Security Certificate. You must click on the 'Run' button and add a tick in the box to the left of 'Always allow content from this publisher' to ensure that vUWS functionality using Java will work properly in your browser.



E-LEARNING SERVICE DESK

The E-Learning Service Desk is open from 8.30am to 5.00pm Monday to Thursday and from 8.30am to 3.00pm on Fridays. All vUWS enquiries submitted will be actioned during operating hours.

Phone: (02) 9852 5252
Email: vuws@uws.edu.au