MyUni Learning Centre: Staff

Resources for Staff

What is MyUni?

MyUni is the University of Adelaide's online learning management system and there are requirements for its use.

MyUni contains two main components: Canvas (the underlying learning management system) and Echo360 (the lecture recording platform).

MyUni also includes other related technologies such as Turnitin and various other plugins.

If you are new to using MyUni as a staff member or would like a general overview, you can enrol into the Introduction to MyUni self-paced online course for a general overview of how to use MyUni at the University of Adelaide.

Getting Started

There are some things that are useful to know when getting started in MyUni.

More detailed guides and information can be found in the pages linked above.

Dashboard

What is the Dashboard?

The MyUni Dashboard is the first thing you will see when you log into MyUni. This helps you see what is happening in all your current courses.

The Dashboard defaults to the course card view, which displays course cards for all your favourite courses. Course cards can help you organise your courses by adding a nickname or customising their colour.

How do I customise my Dashboard?

When you are enrolled in more than one course, you can customise the active courses you want to show in your Dashboard and course list. Courses you want to show in these areas are called "favourite" courses. You can favourite any published course that appears in the My Courses section of the course list page, accessible via Courses in the global navigation menu, then All Courses.

To favourite a course, click on the star next to the course. Courses with filled stars show that the course is favourited.

Only favourited courses will appear on your Dashboard.

If no courses are favourited, then all of your currently enrolled and active courses will appear on your Dashboard.

Note

After you have manually favourited at least one course, new published course enrolments are automatically favourited.

Notifications

What are notifications?

Notifications determine the way that MyUni communicates updates with you, either through email, SMS message, or mobile app push notifications.

When something happens in MyUni, whether that's a new announcement, an assignment date change, or grades being released, your notification settings will inform how and when you are notified.

How do I add additional contact details to MyUni?

You can choose how often you are notified, what you will be notified about, and how to receive your notifications.

Firstly, you need to make sure your contact details are correct and add any additional contact methods. To do this, go to Account in the global navigation menu, then Settings.

By default, your staff email address is set as your primary contact. You can add additional email addresses (such as your personal address) and a mobile phone number. These options can be found on the right-hand side of the Settings page.

Note

If you decided to add a mobile phone number, you will be asked to confirm with a code sent to you by text.

How do I customise when I receive notifications?

You can customise how often you receive notifications and what you are notified about.

Go to Account in the global navigation menu, then Notifications.

Here you can decide how often to receive notifications and through which channel (email, SMS/text message, or mobile push notification).

For each MyUni event (eg. course announcement, change of due date, etc.) you can select the following options for email notifications:

Be notified right away.
Be sent a daily summary of notifications.
Be sent a weekly summary of notifications.
Turn off notifications.

These settings will apply to all of the courses in which you are enrolled. The selected setting will be highlighted in green. You can also highlight over each 'activity' in the left-hand column to find what each represents.

For more information about notifications, see the Canvas guides.

How to Get Teaching Access to a Course

All teaching roles in MyUni are managed by the student information system (PeopleSoft). Peoplesoft administrators in each Faculty or business unit can add you to courses in Peoplesoft in an Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Marker or Tutor role, which will then give you access to the course in MyUni. Changes in Peoplesoft will be reflected in MyUni next business day.

Importing Past Content or Starting With New Template

Setting up a MyUni course and importing content from previous years is the responsiblity of course coordinators. You can choose to import some or all of your past content, or start again with a brand new template.

See the Setup Your Course page for help with importing past content or starting from scratch with a new template.

Merging/Cross-listing Courses

A course merge or cross-list merges multiple MyUni courses into a single course, so that students from all of the courses being merged can access content in the one course. Courses can be cross-listed in a single study period or across multiple study periods. Courses cross-listed across multiple study periods will have a year-long term date.

This process is managed in the student information system, PeopleSoft. Please contact your Faculty's Peoplesoft administrator outlining your course merge or cross-list requirements.

Faculty Peoplesoft Administrators

If you need to organise formal teaching enrolment in a course via Peoplesoft or merge/cross-list courses in MyUni, please contact the Peoplesoft administrator for your Faculty from the below list.

If you see a contact here that needs updating, please contact MyUni Support to have the list revised.

Visit the course administration page to learn more about the schedule for recording lectures and course creation.

Area	Contact
Faculty of ABLE	abletimetabling@adelaide.edu.au
Faculty of HMS	hmstimetabling@adelaide.edu.au
Faculty of SET	settimetabling@adelaide.edu.au
PEP (Pre-enrolment English Program)	elizabeth.hutton@adelaide.edu.au
PACE (Professional and Continuing Education)	tanya.dahlenburg@adelaide.edu.au
Wirltu Yarlu	wirltu.yarlu@adelaide.edu.au

Sandpit Courses

All staff have access to a MyUni sandpit course for exploring and experimenting in MyUni. There are no student enrolments in your sandpit, so you can experiment with MyUni features and tools before deploying content into actual courses.

If you are unable to locate your sandpit course, please contact MyUni Support.

MyUni Exemption Criteria

Visit the MyUni exemption page to learn more about the requirements for exemption from use of MyUni.

Organisational (AU) Courses

Organisational (AU) courses are courses that only exist in MyUni and are not in Peoplesoft.

Organisational courses can be created by request to MyUni Support.

LTIs (MyUni Plugins)

LTI stands for "learning tools interoperability" and refers to plugins that are installed into MyUni.

Visit the LTI page for more information and tips for how to suggest new plugins.

Requirements for Minimum Use of MyUni

Course coordinators can use the MyUni Checklist to prepare for teaching in MyUni and ensure that they are meeting the Requirements for Minimum Use of MyUni policy.