Starting Strong online orientation
Managers should ensure that new employees complete the course within their first week. It will remain available to them as a reference.
This online orientation provides essential information needed to get started as a UM employee, including:
- Mission, vision, priorities for action, organizational structure
- Payroll, types of leave, holidays, guidance and critical information about selecting benefits (note: benefits must be selected within 30 days from first date of employment)
- Wellness support, professional development, tuition waiver, campus recreation and other perks of working at UM
- Transportation, parking, Griz cards, keys
- Accounts, logins, email access
- Community values, community conduct guidelines, campus engagement opportunities and campus safety
- Overview and training for commonly used campus software and systems
- Shared governance and unions
- Student support services and resources
- Directions and links to complete required trainings
How to Enroll in Starting Strong
New, recruited and/or benefits eligible employees who start on the biweekly start dates and complete their hiring paperwork on time will be enrolled in the Starting Strong at UM online orientation.
All employees may also self-enroll in this Canvas course by following the below steps.
- Ensure you have a Canvas account. New UM employees automatically receive Canvas accounts after their Banner accounts are set up and processed overnight.
- To check to see if a Canvas account is active, try logging in using the NetID Login.
- If you haven't logged in to UM systems yet, please reset your NetID password before logging in to Canvas.
- To do this; visit , enter the last six digits of your UM Identification Number (790), and reset your password. Once this is complete, you may log in to Canvas.
- If your Canvas account is inactive, please submit a ticket to IT.
If you have questions, please contact Zoe Dansie, Onboarding Specialist.