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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Cloud computing webinars in October – learn more about Box
Free online training sessions about using Box, Stirling’s cloud storage tool, are now open for booking. More information and a link to sign up can be found here. Box offers all students and staff at the University of Stirling free, unlimited cloud storage and provides anytime, anywhere and any device access to your files. […]
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 […]
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 […]
Problem with ArticleRequest Service – now fixed
The problem we were experiencing with the ArticleRequest Service has now been fixed. The central server for ArticleRequest, managed by our library system supplier, experienced an “unforeseen outage”, this was causing links to the full-text PDF files to fail. The service has now been fully restored and ArticleRequest links to PDF files are working again. If you have any problems […]
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 […]
Problem with ArticleRequest Service
There are currently problems accessing the PDF files requested via our ArticleRequest Service. The full-text PDF files provided by this service are stored on a central server and links to this server are currently failing. We are investigating this problem urgently and will post again when we have any news. We apologise for the […]
Turnitin Downtime
Turnitin services may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, March 5, 2016 from 15.00 to 19.00.