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Due to the current situation many staff members have to switch to online platforms and there is a greater need for online meetings using Microsoft Teams. Below are a few convenient links with guides on how to use it.
Join a Teams Meeting (video)
Manage Meetings (Video)
Start an instant meeting in Teams
Share content in a meeting in Teams
Create instant meetings with Meet Now (video)
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We are well aware of the growing risks of working online – whether it’s at our offices or at home as we’ve been doing recently. The downside of working from home is that it opens opportunities for cyber-attacks and security risks are higher. You can easily fall prey to these security risks when there are more distractions and concerns than usual while working from home.
To protect our staff and students from security attacks in our current situation, as well as when we return to our offices one day, it is important to implement extra security measures. Information Technology has been researching and testing multi factor authentication or MFA over the past few months as an additional measure to protect personal information and data. Read more about MFA here or watch the explanatory video by tech expert Tom Scott.
In short, this will mean that, for certain services, you will be prompted to provide more information in order to authenticate your identity as a Stellenbosch University student or staff member.
By mid-August all staff and students will be required to use multi factor authentication to secure their information and the university network. Although MFA is not mandatory at the moment, you can already enrol by following these steps.
If you have any questions first consult our FAQs and if this does not answer your question, please log your request on our ICT Partner Portal and a technician will contact you.
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Ons is reeds deeglik bewus van die groeiende risiko betrokke wanneer ons aanlyn werk – hetsy dit in ons kantore is of by die huis is. Die nadeel van by die huis werk is die groter waarskynlikheid vir kuberaanvalle en hoër risiko vir sekuriteitsrisiko’s. Dis makliker om in die strik van sekuriteitsrisiko’s te trap as daar meer afleidings is en die aanlyn-werksomgewing minder veilig is.
Om ons personeel en studente te beskerm teen sekuriteitsaanvalle in ons huidige omstandighede, sowel as wanneer ons terug is op kampus, is dit nodig om ekstra sekuriteitsmaatreëls in plek te sit. Informasietegnologie ondersoek en toets reeds die afgelope paar maande veelfaktorbekragtiging (MFA) as `n addisionele maatreël om persoonlike inligting en data te beskerm. Lees meer oor MFA hier of kyk na tech-deskundige, Tom Scott, se verduideliking.
In kort beteken dit dat jy wanneer jy vir sekere dienste aanteken, jy gevra sal word om addisionele inligting te verskaf om jou identiteit as Universiteit Stellenbosch personeellid of student te bevestig.
Teen middel-Augustus sal daar van alle personeel en studente verwag word om veelfaktor-bekragtiging te gebruik om hulle inligting en die universiteit se netwerk te beskerm. Alhoewel MFA nog nie verpligtend is nie, kan jy reeds registreer deur die volgende stappe* te volg.
Indien jy enige vrae het, kyk asb. na ons FAQ-dokument en as jou vraag nog nie beantwoord word nie, teken asb. jou versoek aan op die ICT Partner Portal waarna ʼn tegnikus jou sal kontak.
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Due to the implementation of stricter laws regarding the protection of data, Information Technology can no longer change passwords on behalf of staff and students. We therefore recommend that you use the online password self-help function.
However, to successfully use this function, your cell phone number or external email address has to be recorded on the system. Information Technology cannot update this information since our staff are not authorised to work on the HR databases. If you information is incorrect or incomplete, you can update it by doing the following:
More detailed information on the password self-help function.
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As gevolg van die implementering van strenger wetgewing aangaande die beskerming van persoonlike data, word wagwoorde nie meer deur IT namens personeel en studente verander nie. Ons beveel aan dat die aanlyn wagwoord selfhelp funksionaliteit gebruik moet word.
Om die aanlyn-funksionaliteit suksesvol te kan gebruik, moet jou selfoonnommer of eksterne e-posadres op die stelsel aangedui wees. Die opdatering van die inligting kan nie deur Informasietegnologie gemaak word nie aangesien IT nie regte het om persoonlike inligting op te dateer nie. Indien jou inligting nie volledig is nie, kan dit deur middel van die volgende metodes opdateer word:
Verdere, gedetailleerde inligting oor die wagwoord self-helpfunksie.
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If you want to brush up on your Excel skills, we have just the solution for you.
You can now do an online Excel course which covers all the content of Microsoft Office Excel 2019 needed to become internationally certified. It also aims to help with the navigation of Excel within the office 2019 and 365 environment.
The course takes place over four days and there are fixed training periods you can choose from. The next session takes place 24 to 27 August.
The only prerequisites are that you are computer literate, you have a desktop or laptop, Office365 and an internet connection.
To enrol for the course, you can register on SUN-e-HR. Browse to my.sun.ac.za, click on the SUN-e-HR tab and log in with your sun account. After logging in, you can go to
Training and development-> Learner Home->Information Technology and the Excel course will show there.
As soon as you’ve registered StellieTech, the company responsible for the training will contact you. Their trainers will follow along with your training progress and assist you to make sure you are on track throughout the programme.
The training material that will be covered is exactly the same as the material covered in StellieTech training centres. All aligned to the global industry standard and internationally accredited certification. On the platform, you will find their pre-assessments, training videos, practice simulations, post-assessments, and downloadable workbooks & follow along files. Everything is clearly laid out in the platform and very user friendly.
More detailed information on the Excel-course.
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As jy jou Excel-vaardighede wil opskerp het ons net die oplossing vir jou.
Jy kan nou ʼn aanlyn Excel-kursus volg wat al die Microsoft Office Excel 2019 inhoud dek wat jy nodig het om internasionaal gesertifiseer te wees. Dit sal kursusgangers ook help om hulleself te orienteer binne die Office 2019 en 365-omgewing.
Die kursus vind plaas oor vier dae en daar is vaste opleidingsperiodes waaruit jy kan kies. Die volgende sessie vind 24 tot 27 Augustus plaas.
Die enigste vereistes is dat jy rekenaargeletterd is en oor ʼn tafel- of skootrekenaar, Office365 en ʼn internetverbinding beskik.
Om in te skryf vir die kursus, kan jy registreer op SUN-e-HR. Navigeer na my.sun.ac.za, kliek op die my.sun.ac.za oortjie en teken aan met jou sun-rekeningdetails. Nadat jy aangeteken het, gaan na Training and development-> Learner Home->Information Technology en die opsie vir die Excel-kursus sal sigbaar wees.
Sodra jy geregistreer is sal StellieTech, die maatskappy verantwoordelik vir die opleiding, jou kontak. Hulle instrukteurs sal saam met jou jou vordering met die opleiding monitor, jou bystaan en sekermaak dat jy op die regte spoor bly met die program.
Die opleidingmateriaal wat gedek word, is presies dieselfde materiaal wat gedek word in StellieTech opleidingsentrums. Al hierdie sentrums voldoen aan globale industriestandaarde en internasionaal geakkrediteerde sertifisering.
Op die platform sal jy julle pre-toetse vind, opleidingsvideo’s, oefen-simulasies, post-toetse en aflaaibare werkboeke. Al die inligting is duidelik uiteengesit op die platform en baie gebruikersvriendelik.
Meer gedetailleerde inligting oor die Excel-kursus.
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Some of you may have received an e-mail during the past few days with this heading “Oracle Fusion Applications Welcome E-mail”.
Visions, our SUNFin implementation partner, was busy with a configuration exercise which involved setting up different users on the development environment of SU’s new financial system – SUNFin. Unfortunately, during this setup, these e-mails were mistakenly sent to some of you.
We apologise for any confusion and inconvenience that this may have caused, especially given all the spam e-mails we are receiving these days. Rest assured that this was not spamming and that you can safely ignore and delete the e-mail you might have received.
Visions have assured us that they will rectify the sending of these e-mails as they continue to configure our SUNFin system.
Please email sunfin@sun.ac.za if you have any questions or comments regarding the SUNFin project. Please visit www.sun.ac.za/sunfin for more information regarding the project.
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