Student Careers and Systems

Careers

We provide careers guidance and support for current students and alumni, and are responsible for:

• Enterprise
• Handshake - our careers platform
• Placement Year programme
• Your Career Journey
• York Profiles and Mentors
• York Strengths and York Award
• Volunteering

Student Systems

We develop, support and maintain student systems, and are responsible for:

• the University's student student record system (SITS)
  • managing and maintaining the system, ensuring accuracy, timeliness and completeness of the data
  • providing advice, guidance and training
  • maintaining course and module structures and supporting assessment, progression and enrolment processes
• issuing access to SITS and e:Vision, the Student Data Warehouse (DWH) and the Student Enquiry Screen (SES)
• advising users on the use of the Student Data Warehouse
• delivering a number of major data returns to the Higher Education Statistical Agency (HESA), including the HESA Student, ITT and DLHE returns
• confirming student attendance to the Student Loans Company and supplying information for the HEI Course Database
• providing SkillsForge advice and support

SITS and Data Warehouse training

We offer an online course that will show users how to navigate around SITS and how to interpret a student record. 

• Introduction to the Student Record in SITS course (Wiki)

Data Warehouse

Before attending Data Warehouse training you should have completed the Introduction to the student record in SITS training and have a basic knowledge of navigating around Microsoft Access. 

Book on to a Data Warehouse course through the Learning Management System. Once logged in, search for courses under Informations Management > Computing and IT. 

If you have a training query about SITS or Data Warehouse, email sits-support@york.ac.uk.