There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Monday 26th November at 11.00, Cottrell 2A13, Stirling Campus. Please note the change of time for this meeting to 11.00. All are welcome. Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, along with Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Professor David […]
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Library entrance relocated Wed 24-Fri 26 October
**WORK NOW COMPLETE**The main entrance is now open but the new entry system is not yet in use. To allow for the installation of the new Library access system on Stirling campus, the Library entrance will be temporarily relocated to the opposite end of the glass wall to the left of the current entrance (near […]
Lyon Crescent – CampusNet unavailable due to equipment failure
**UPDATES AT BOTTOM** We are sorry to say that the following houses in Lyon Crescent have today suffered an equipment failure and this is unlikely to be fixed until Monday at the very earliest. The following houses are affected: 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 The […]
Staff Print – MFDs in public areas
A new MFD has been added to the staff print fleet. It is easily accessible to all staff and is in Cottrell 4V3a. This is a small space without a door and is shared with a student printer. The new Konica Minolta MFD is dark grey and is therefore distinct from the beige student printer. […]
Succeed downtime for maintenance
Succeed will be unavailable between 7.30am and 9.00am, Wed 24th Oct*, to expand the file store available to the system from 128Gb to 512Gb — the existing store is over 80% full. This should take about an hour but we are booking a little additional downtime as these activities are difficult to time precisely. Apologies for […]
Extended Internet service downtime, Thursday 11th October 05.30-08.30
As part of the continuing effort to resolve issues which have been preventing implementation of an increase in the bandwidth of the University’s JANET connection, there will be an extended disruption to all Internet services between 05:30 and 08:30 on the morning of Thursday, 11th October. This outage should allow Systems and Network Services staff, […]
New Succeed panels for Reading lists and Listen Again
Panels are the name for the ‘boxes’ that appear on your My Succeed page, for example ‘My Courses’. You can add new panels to your My Succeed and Information Services has created two new panels: ‘My Reading Lists’ — this panel will show all reading lists from your modules and the reading list can […]
Resident students are invited to join a Network Gaming Pilot scheme
In response to demand from resident students, over the 2012 summer vacation Information Services has been testing a concept that should allow users to use games consoles on the University network. Before this is made available to all residents it needs to be further tested by real users. Network Gaming Pilot If you are […]
Student email – security settings tightened so a tweak to your browser may be necessary
During the summer, it was necessary to tighten up security on the student email servers. As a result of this, those of you using Internet Explorer may need to make a small change to your Internet Options as follows: Go to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced tab, then scroll down the list of […]
New PCs in Library with inactivity timeout feature
All of the student open access PCs on Levels 3 and 4 of the Library have been replaced over the summer with brand new machines. This should help address some of the issues raised in the IS Satisfaction Survey re the frequent breakdowns in library PCs. Another frequently made point in the Satisfaction Survey […]