The University has a subscription to LinkedInLearning which you can access from the portal. LinkedInLearning has many academic learner paths. However, there is much, much more to LinkedInLearning. There are so many options that you can choose from. At the moment they seem to be championing many wellbeing learner paths. When you access LinkedInLearning you […]
Category: IT News
Phishing Alert! Covid-19 email making the rounds.
Information Services have detected a rise in phishing emails related to COVID-19 and Coronavirus. We have seen one particular email making the rounds yesterday and early this morning with the subject line: “Covid-19 Virus Update: A Document was sent to you for review”. This email is not genuine and is designed to steal your University […]
Assessments
As announced on 26 March, in Spring semester 2020 all examinations for students on professional undergraduate programmes in years 1 and 2, undergraduates in years 3 and 4, and taught postgraduates will be replaced with remote examinations or alternative assessments (see the University FAQs for full information). We have added information to our Canvas and Learning […]
Download listen again recordings
Today Information Services have made all lectures recordings on Listen Again available for download. This means that those students working remotely and viewing lectures for revision do not have to stream them multiple times. To download a lecture, navigate to it on the Listen Again page in your Canvas module and click the download icon […]
Remote access to lab PCs now available
Need to access a particular piece of software that you don’t have on your home PC? Tried to download some software but failed? Hopefully this solution will work for you. We have made >300 lab PCs available for remote connection. The labs concerned are: 1a11 (60 PCs), 1a13 (34 PCs), 2a15 (57), 2a17 (43), 2b41 […]
Auto start up of staff campus PCs (Hewlett Packard devices only)
On Friday 27th March, we deployed a daily auto start up command to all on-campus Hewlett Packard PCs. This means that if your PC was switched on today, it will now receive an auto start up command every morning at 8:30am. This should safeguard against accidental shut downs (we have seen a number of these […]
Stay Cyber Safe While Working Remotely
Due to increasing concerns over the spread of COVID-19 globally and in the UK, the University has suspended face-to-face classes to protect the health and well-being of our students. Teaching is being delivered online and staff members are encouraged to speak to their line manager about working from home where practical. However, working from home […]
Dissertation help
We have just completed our spring dissertation roadshows. We had two sessions one in Pathfoot and one in the library. If you were not able to make these sessions, don’t worry you can still access all of the resources and help that we were advertising. We have a module on UniDesk (which you access via […]
Windows 10 feature updates are coming
The migration of all staff desktops away from Windows 7 is now drawing to a close, with most university managed PCs now running Windows 10. Information Services would like thank everyone for their cooperation and we hope that you are enjoying the benefits of a new operating system. However, our work doesn’t stop here. We […]
Cyber Security Check-up
We are in the midst of Cyber Scotland Week 2020 so what better time is there to get your cyber health check? These 3 quick tips will help you improve your stance on cyber security in just a few short clicks! #1 Check if your accounts have been in any data breaches ‘Have I Been […]