Please be advised that a number of staff have reported receiving telephone calls from unknown or other external numbers on their University extensions, which appear to be malicious cold-callers. Typically, the phone calls have been either accident-claim companies, or individuals claiming to be from the University IT department and/or ‘Windows Technical Support’, requesting access to […]
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Succeed Opening Dates (Autumn semester 2016/17)
1st year Undergraduate students – You will be able to pick your ID card on either Sunday 11th or Monday 12th, you will then be able to access your modules later in the day that your card was collected. 2nd Year Undergraduate students assuming all enrolment tasks are completed will have access from Monday 5th […]
Library users required – we need your feedback on the library catalogue: you get a £10 voucher for 30 mins of your time.
The library catalogue is changing this summer and we’re looking for volunteers to take part in a two-part observational usability study. You will need to be free to come to the Stirling or Highland campus library for 15 mins between 9 – 5 Mon to Fri w/c 25th July and again for 15 mins between […]
PATHFOOT COMPUTER LABS
As part of the ongoing “School Integration; Proposed Strategic Space Rationalisation” initiative the G corridor is being reconfigured and repurposed as staff office accommodation. The teaching and study pc labs have been de-commissioned and will be re-established in the Pathfoot Study Centre, rooms SC1, SC2 and adjacent mezzanine area. It is anticipated that the labs […]
The library catalogue will be unavailable on Tuesday 12th July from 4pm due to essential maintenance work. It is hoped to have access restored by 6pm.
Alternative access to the library catalogue will be available via our Stirgate service (Stirgate searches many library databases including the library catalogue – the catalogue results always appear at the top of your results). You can also still access our electronic journals via our EJournal Gateway and you can access our many library databases from […]
Staff file store
We are currently undertaking an upgrade to the servers which support staff filestore (carron, dochart, esk, kelty, inchna, ness). This work is being undertaken up until the end of March (see schedule below) but we wanted to let you know about a couple of really nice features that will be available to you after your […]
IT security – How savvy are you?
Reminder – Quiz closes March 19th. Are you super secure or are there a few areas which need tightened? Information Services have prepared a short IT security quiz in Succeed for staff to take. It should take under 10 minutes to complete with 14 multiple choice/true or false answers. The purpose of the exercise is […]
Turnitin Downtime
Turnitin services may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 15.00 to 19.00.
Upgrade to student filestore and introducing Box
On Tuesday 23rd February (during the Reading Week), Information Services will be undertaking an upgrade to the servers that host student network file store (home folders). The upgrade will make the service more resilient and will be undertaken between 6-7:30 on Tuesday morning to inconvenience as few people as possible. All existing files will […]
IT security – how savvy are you ?
Are you super secure or are there a few areas which need tightened? Information Services have prepared a short IT security quiz in Succeed for staff to take. It should take under 10 minutes to complete with 14 multiple choice/true or false answers. The purpose of the exercise is to discover the general level […]