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Category: IT News
Word Processing Your Dissertation
More training sessions announced for Word Processing Your Dissertation Are you dreading the word formatting part of your dissertation? Fear not! We’ve added a new section to the Canvas and Learning Technologies (Students) module, including help, training videos, and a template document to drop your text into. From creating and saving a new document to creating […]
We Want Your Feedback on the University App!
We hope you’re enjoying the University app and finding it useful for your academic and campus life. In Information Services we strive to improve and enhance your experience, we would love to hear your thoughts and suggestions. What do you think about the University app? We want to know what features you find most helpful […]
Reminder: Zoom – University licensed version
The University has made the difficult decision to retire our licensed version of Zoom, effective August 2025. This decision has been reached following a comprehensive review, which highlighted low user engagement with the platform and the substantial cost associated with maintaining the license after 2025. Additionally, Microsoft Teams has demonstrated significantly higher utilisation, managing in […]
Love letters to your library
Share Your Love (or Break Up) with Library and IT Services! In Information Services, we are always striving to improve our Library and IT services to better serve you. That’s why we’re excited to announce our upcoming feedback event, where you can express your thoughts and feelings in a unique and creative way! Event Details: 📅 […]
Discover Your Digital Potential: A Pop-Up Event for Students
Are you ready to take your digital skills to the next level? Join us at our exciting pop-up event where students can find out how to use the Jisc capabilities tool explore and enhance their digital capabilities. This event is designed to help you assess your current digital skills and discover the services available to […]
On-demand support resource in Canvas
Learning and Teaching Enhancement have been working with Instructure to release the Support Centre in Canvas. The Support Centre is an on-demand resource available 24/7 to students and staff offering contextual support to get help, find answers to questions when completing tasks, and to learn more about how to use Canvas. The Support Centre can be […]
You said – We did Roundup
Over the last 3 weeks we have been sharing some of the improvements made to our service in 2024 as a result of your feedback. We love to get feedback from our users, which we regularly use to make changes to our services, spaces, support and resources. Do you want to give us feedback? Look […]
Change to Microsoft MFA verification code delivery for some SMS users
We would like to inform you of an important update regarding the delivery of Microsoft verification codes for multi-factor authentication (MFA). If you have previously received your verification codes via SMS (Text message) , you may now start seeing these codes coming through WhatsApp. This will only occur if you have WhatsApp installed on your […]
Zoom – University licensed version
The University has made the difficult decision to retire our licensed version of Zoom, effective August 2025. This decision has been reached following a comprehensive review, which highlighted low user engagement with the platform and the substantial cost associated with maintaining the license after 2025. Additionally, Microsoft Teams has demonstrated significantly higher utilisation, managing in […]