eLD will be running training sessions for staff who will be building and running courses in Succeed (instructors) over the next couple of weeks. This training is an introduction to Succeed for staff who have not used the system previously (or have made little use). Four Succeed training sessions are available on the following […]
Category: IT News
Unavailability of Staff Email Service: 14:15, 25 July to 10:15, 26 July
Information Services would like to apologise for the disruption to staff email, calendar and voice mail services during this period. This was due to multiple failures in the systems supporting the service and unexpected problems in restoring the services. No incoming emails to the University will have been lost during the outage as they were […]
Succeed Downtime
Succeed will be unavailable on Friday 2nd August 07.30 – 12.00 for a hardware upgrade and Saturday 3rd August 09.00-13.00 for the upgrade to service pack 13. The downtime on Saturday 3rd August has previously been advertised but the downtime on the 2nd August is new. Directors of Learning and Teaching have been notified about […]
Training available in using the Audio-Visual equipment in Lecture Theatres and Teaching Rooms
Are you going to be teaching in one of the university’s central lecture theatres or teaching rooms this coming semester? If so, it would be well worth making an appointment with one of our support staff to learn the essentials of operating the audio-visual and IT equipment in the teaching spaces. If you […]
Links to student information on the portal not available 17-19 July and portal downtime Thurs 18th July.
Essential work on the SITS (Student Records) database is scheduled for the evening of Wednesday 17th, all day Thursday 18th and the system is ‘at risk’ on Friday 19th of July. This will mean that the Student Records database will be unavailable during this period as will links to student records information from the portal. […]
It’s not paranoia – they are out to get you!
Malware, hackers, phishing, spyware, trojans, cybercrime, password stealers, viruses, worms, rootkits, adware, etc. The vacation periods at Universities are traditionally times for all of this malicious activity to increase dramatically. Perhaps the people behind it think that that their victim’s minds are elsewhere, making them an easier target than usual. Perhaps they are right. […]
Internet service disruption Friday 12th July
In order to complete routine but important maintenance on core network equipment, there will be two short interruptions to all off-campus Internet services, sometime between 07:30 and 08:30 on Friday 12th July. During this window, staff from Systems and Network Services will install recommended software updates. Each interruption will last for up to 3 minutes, […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Tuesday 28 May 2013
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Tuesday 28 May 2013 at 11.00, 2B87 Stirling Campus. All staff and students are encouraged to attend, in particular Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, and Students’ Union representatives. Alison Green, Senior Teaching Fellow, Deputy Director of Teaching and Learning, School […]
The portal and module registration
This week, some students will have had difficulty in connecting to the Portal between 09:00 and 09:35 on the morning of Wednesday 1st May when module registration for the autumn semester opened. When module registration first goes live, there is an enormous peak in the number of people trying to connect so the connection […]
RefWorks Write-N-Cite 4 now available for Staff Pcs
Finally the new version of Write-N-Cite is now available for staff computers from Run Advertised Programmes. The Write-N-Cite Mini Guide with instructions on downloading and using WNC4 is now available. Why use WNC 4? Write-N-Cite is an add-in programme for Word which synchronises with your RefWorks database so that you can create in-text citations and […]