UFS Oracle Login, as the title of this article states, is a detailed post with well-outlined steps on how to navigate the University of the Free State’s self-service portal.
UFS Oracle is the student portal of the University of the Free State. This portal allows students to carry out different academic activities on their official website www.ufs.ac.za.
UFS portal helps the student to access UFS self-service, UFS Blackboard (eLearn), Ufs4life email, timetables, exam results, library, and protection services.
The student portal consists of important logins such as the UFS oracle (UFS Peoplesoft)
About the University of the Free State
The University of the Free State is a multi-campus public university. It’s located in the Bloemfontein capital of the Free State and the judicial capital of South Africa. Its motto is “In Truth is the Light of Wisdom”
In 1904 it was first established as an institution of higher learning as a tertiary section of Grey College. In 1950 it was declared an independent Afrikaans language university, which made them change its name to the University of the Orange Free State.
In 1996 the university was fully de-segregated, and then it was initially a white-only precinct. It consists of two satellite campuses. In 2010 the first vice-chancellor was appointed.
Former Names of the College and Date they were Changed:
1904-1906 – Grey College
1906- 1940 – Grey University College
1940 – 1950 – University College of the Orange Free State
1950 – 2001 – University of the Orange Free State
At first, UFS accepted only Whites, but in the early 1990s, the first black students were admitted into the school, as apartheid in South Africa began to cease. Majorities of the students of all races supported racial coming together of the housing facilities. And for quite some years UFS was seen as a model school for the integration of students from different races. However, blacks began to form a larger percentage of the student body (85% of the population of the Free State Province) in the time of mid-to-late- 1990s. And they began to feel less eager about continuing traditions from the white-only history of UFS.
The UFS student residences became de facto re-segregated after the 1996 riot. It did not end there, as classes in English and Afrikaans started, classes, became re-segregated as whites became interested in learning the Afrikaans language and blacks were interested in learning the English language.
Once again the university faced another era of controversy in late February 2008 because of a video made by four white students at the Reitz residence which was taken to be a protest against racial integration on the campus. The real motive behind this video is yet to be known. The video shows five black workers in the university being subjected to different mock activities, which include being coerced to eat food that has been urinated on. The video was recognized by both South African and international media and condemnation by disapproval from most major political parties in South Africa, this led to riots and racial strife among students of the university. In some of the riots, video threats were made to the white students by the black students.
The council of the university had to close down the Reitz residence cause of the incident and the incident made the University look into racism in education. It was done by the Department of Education of South Africa.
Then the first black president of UFS and the new chancellor then, he was also a strong proponent of intellectual freedom. He subsequently started a process for campus-wide racial integration among students, it also included inviting the four students to continue their studies at the university.
The university was awarded the World Universities Forum Award for the Best Practice in Higher Education which spoke in honour of the harmonization of the student community.
Oprah Winfrey received her honorary doctorate from the University, on receiving her doctorate she said the transformation of the university was “nothing short of a miracle” when talking about the incident and subsequent racial integration.
How to Gain Access to their Self-Service
To login into UFS Oracle, these are the steps you should follow:
- Go to this link https://pssa.ufs.ac.za
- Put in your correct UFS username or student number
- Enter your correct password
- Hit on the login button in order to sign in
What use can use Self-Service for
- Management of Student password
- Ability to change password
- Ability to Ask security questions
- Helps in login troubles
- Contains the UFS student portal
- Contains UFS Oracle
ienabler
ITS Web Enabler Interface and some other student portal interface of some universities, UFS Oracle is part of the UFS self-service. PeopleSoft’s user interface uses your user ID and your password to allow you to gain access to your account.
These are some of the things you are gaining access to:
- Your student’s academic records
- Your financial records (fees you have paid and not paid)
- Your school and daily timetable
- Proof that you are registered
- Things that concern your housing and residence matters
- Bills of internet
- Records of the bills paid on the internet and bills yet to be paid
NB: when we say internet billing we are talking of only registered students, not students that are not registered.
Human resource departments in large corporations make use of PeopleSoft applications. Here is the list of PeopleSoft applications: Human resource management systems (HRMS), financials and supply chain management (FSCM), enterprise performance management (EPM), and customer relationship management (CRM).
Many do ask “is PeopleSoft the same as Oracle?”
The product line and PeopleSoft name are now advertised and marketed by Oracle. Supply Chain Management (SCM) and PeopleSoft Financial Management Solutions (FMS) are all in one package, that we all know as Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM).
So even though you search for UFS PeopleSoft or UFS Oracle, you will end up getting the same result. So it’s advisable to just log in with your credentials on the page.
How to Change your Password
It is mandatory for every UFS student to change their password every 90 days. You don’t have to be counting the days once your password wants to expire, you will receive an email notifying you that your password will soon expire.
You can also decide on your own to change your password regularly for security reasons or reasons best known to you.
NB: always use a password that you can easily remember
That password will be used in so many places like accessing your email, logging into the internet on campus, and also your registration on UFS PeopleSoft.
Before you change your password there are some UFS password policies you must observe first. This will help you in creating or changing your password.
The first thing to know in changing your password is that your password must consist of a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 32 characters, with at least a capital letter, a small letter, a numeral (numbers), and a special character.
Here are some of the special characters you can use:
! # $ % ^ ” {} () ~ < > ?
Your password won’t expire till after 90 days of using it, then you can see change it to any other password of your choice.
Please note that you can’t use the same password 12 times the same times in a row. Always have that in mind when renewing your password.
Examples of some Strong Password:
- Name$money1
- %8Organ
- D~560n365
2Ools? ( Tools- replaced t will 2, turned the second letter o to capital letter O, and added a question mark at the end).
These are examples of strong passwords you can figure out and use.
For those that are still confused, here are some ideas that you can use in creating a strong password so you can easily remember them.
Replace ‘1’ (one) with ‘!’ (exclamation mark)
Replace ‘I’ (capital letter i) with ‘!’ ( Exclamation mark)
Replace ‘e’ (either capital or small letter) with ‘3’
Replace ‘a’ with ‘4’
Replace o with 0 (the number)
Replace s with $ (dollar sign)
As we have strong passwords so do we have weak passwords. Here are examples of weak passwords we must avoid with all causes.
Avoid the use of personal information, either personal information of your spouse, pets, siblings, parents, or children. Personal information also includes surname, birthdate, maiden name, mobile number, address, name, and even email address. Last but not least avoid the use of the character ‘@’ cause it may cause problems with Google.
Steps in Changing your Self-Service Password
These are the steps to follow:
- Go to the UFS self-service website on any of our browsing apps
- Enter the website by typing in your UFS student number and correct password
- Click on the link “sign in”
- Click on the first option you see there, “change the password to be precise”
- Change your former password
- Create a strong and better password (advisably be something you can remember)
Click “change password” to change your password. Note that your former password won’t be accepted again.
Due to the fact that your data is sensitive, you have to add complexity when creating your new password, to know how to do that, check the subheading “making stronger password”
If the password you want to create does not meet up to the requirements of the UFS self-service password, it will be indicated on the screen. If your password meets the requirements of the UFS self-service password, you can then click on continue after that your password has successfully been changed.
Ways to Change your Password
If you can’t remember your password, click on “forgotten password” and follow the steps on how to change your password.
To change your password, an SMS message will be sent to your mobile number by the University of the Free State or an email will be sent to your personal email address, the one on your UFS account system.
The SMS or email sent to your mobile phone or personal email will be a security code required to change your password. By clicking on the search button you are giving UFS permission to send the SMS message or email message to your mobile number or personal email address.
If you go through this process and you are still experiencing problems or you did not receive an SMS or email message, then use the FAQ document.
Questions Asked on FAQs
In case you are inquisitive about questions that are asked on Faqs. Here are some questions usually asked on PeopleSoft, UFS Oracle, and UFS self-service in general. If you are still confused do well to ask me questions in the comment box below the article.
Steps in Changing your Password
If you wish to reset your UFS self-service password, then, you must access the UFS official self-service portal at https://selfservice.ufs.ac.za
Enter the website by putting your UFS student number and current correct password.
UFS PeopleSoft and UFS Oracle, are the same?
Product line and PeopleSoft are advertised and marketed by Oracle. Supply Chain Management (SCM) and PeopleSoft Financial Management Solutions (FMS) are both parts of the same package, it is common as Financials and Supply Chain Management (FSCM).
How to Check My Status
If you want to check the University of the Free State (UFS) application status go to this link: https://pssa.ufs.ac.za/. Put in your User ID and correct password, after that you can click the sign-in button.
