Come along to the eLearning forum and learn about some of the features that Succeed offers to support your teaching. In particular:Â Wikis, Blogs and Personal Learning Environments (Succeed – Campus Pack) Succeed Campus Pack offers easy to use and set up Web 2.0 tools in our learning environment. Campus Pack includes a range of […]
Month: August 2011
September Succeed Training for staff
Further training has been arranged for Succeed at the start of September. The dates are shown below. (All the sessions are in training room 2 (level 4) in the library)  Friday 2 September 2-5pm Tuesday 6 September 10-1pm Thursday 8 September 10-1pm  For Pathfoot based staff we are offering the date (location to […]
Advice for staff on preparing for the upgrade to Windows 7/Office 2010
Information Services is undertaking the upgrading of the vast majority of staff PCs to Windows 7 and Office 2010 over the vacation period. Â We have prepared a number of guides to help staff prepare for the upgrade and also some FAQs on the obvious changes / new features in Windows 7 and Office 2010. […]
New look for our education databases for the new academic year
Information Services is pleased to announce the launch of a new interface for our databases for education: the British Education Index (BEI), the Australian Education Index (AEI) and ERIC (Educational Resources Information Centre). These databases are available from the A-Z List of Online Resources.   The new interface offers direct exporting to RefWorks, quick limits […]
Maintenance affecting web services
Systems and Network Services will be performing some essential hardware maintenance on Saturday 27th August 2011 which will cause disruption to the following web services from 9.00am: <ul All University Divisional web sites Stirling Online Research Repository (STORRE) (old) WebCT The University Core web site (www.stir.ac.uk), the Portal, and the new Succeed service […]
Teachers’ Collection temporarily unavailable
Due to a leak in the Stirling campus Library the Teachers’ Collection is temporarily unavailable. Please ask at the Information Centre if you require access to this collection. We will post an update when we have more information.
Historic Books – a new resource for locating literature
Students and staff at the University of Stirling now have access to Historic Books a new resource for locating and accessing literature. Historic Books, from JISC, provides access to over 360,000 online books. It replaces our access to Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) and contains resources accessible from Early English Books Online (EEBO). Also contained in […]
MediaHub – a new resource for locating audio visual resources
Students and staff at the University of Stirling now have access to MediaHub, a brand new resource for locating and accessing audio visual and multimedia resources. MediaHub from JISC provides access to collections of film, audio and image resources including the archives of organisations such as ITN, the Imperial War Museum, The Wellcome Trust, Films of […]
Succeed Launched
Today Succeed is launched. Succeed is the upgrade for WebCT. Formally the launch means that a link has been added to the Portal and this route therefore is the recommended route to Succeed. Watch out for further information about how Succeed can help keep you up-to-date with your modules via the notifications feature. […]