What do you think of the Library and IT Services that you use every day? Love the new student email system? Think we need more PCs / staff / books in the Library? Whatever your view, we want to hear it… Information Services runs an annual Satisfaction Survey to find out what our staff […]
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WebCT Shutdown
Now that all running modules are on Succeed and extensions for students have ended or will shortly end, it is time to plan the closure of the WebCT service and remove the link from the Portal. The purpose of this message is to describe how this will be done and to reassure staff that all […]
Win a Google Nexus 7! Complete our short survey
Information Services would like to hear about your usage of mobile devices such as mobile phones and tablets. This will assist in us catering our services towards the devices you use. Please complete the 2 minute survey below and enter your student email address when prompted. You will then be entered into our […]
Stirgate
StirGate is Stirling’s academic search engine and it can now be directly accessed from Succeed. It will help you locate books and journal articles for your essays, reports and research. It searches many of the library’s electronic resources including the library catalogue, several large databases (including Scopus, Historical Abstracts, Business Source Premier, PsycINFO, CINAHL, ERIC […]
Resource Lists in Succeed
You will have noted that reading lists are now called resource lists (http://blogs.stir.ac.uk/isnews/?p=2688). As with reading lists a Succeed Panel has been developed to display all the resource lists that you have access to: This panel will be added your My Succeed page after Friday 22th February (delayed due to an issue with time periods […]
Succeed opening dates for spring semester 2013
Remember that modules now open the week before semester starts. This means that Spring semester modules open on the following dates: 1st/2nd year modules – Monday 4th February 3rd/4th year modules – Tuesday 5th February Post-graduate modules – Wednesday 6th February Some modules from departments may open on different days (such as History and […]
Beware anyone phoning to ask for your network username/password
In the past* we have alerted staff and students to the dangers of giving out your network username and password BY EMAIL to anyone claiming to be from IS/IT at the university. Now it seems that the scammers are starting to phone members of staff to try and fool people into disclosing their network credentials. […]
Student email moves to Outlook Web App (OWA) this week
This email is a reminder that student (UG and TPG) email accounts will be moving from the SquirrelMail system to Outlook Web App THIS WEEK. The changeover date is Wed 30th January. On Wed 30th, there may be some delays in incoming email arriving in your new OWA inbox as we transfer routing between […]
Thistle Chambers: interruption to network services – now Friday 25 January
**UPDATE** We apologise that the advertised work to the Thistle Chambers network did not happen yesterday. Our service provider has subsequently informed us that the necessary work will take place today, Friday 25 January, between 13:00 and 17:00. Information Services has been advised by our service provider that it will be necessary to interrupt […]
Succeed training for Instructors
eLD will be running training sessions for staff who will be building and running courses in Succeed (instructors) over the next couple of weeks. This training is an introduction to Succeed for staff who have not used the system previously (or have made little use) Four Succeed training sessions have been arranged on the […]