There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Monday 26th November at 11.00, Cottrell 2A13, Stirling Campus. Please note the change of time for this meeting to 11.00. All are welcome. Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, along with Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Professor David […]
Category: IT News
Reminder: password security and scam emails
Every year we all receive a number of ‘phishing’ emails sent to University email accounts. These emails simulate formal University emails and attempt to deceive you into revealing your University username and password. Some of the common examples include emails notifying you that your mailbox is full and inviting you to click on a link […]
Financial Times / ft.com app now available
Now you can read the Financial Times on your phone or tablet as well as the ft.com website. The University now has access to the ft.com app as well as the website. The printed Financial Times normally costs £2.50 a day but the electronic version is now available free to all staff and students […]
Coming soon – new student email system
Shortly the student email system will be upgraded to a cloud-based service, Microsoft Office 365, utilising the Microsoft Outlook Web App. The benefits of this new service include most of the features of the full version of Microsoft Outlook, but in a web page: A much newer and easier to use interface for your email […]
Have eduroam will travel
Stirling University offers the eduroam service to its staff and students to allow you to access the Internet on your own devices (laptops, ipads, phones etc) at other participating UK and worldwide institutions. See the eduroam list of participating institutions for more info on where you can eduroam: http://www.eduroam.org/index.php?p=where The Information Centre at Stirling Campus […]
Relaunch of file drop facility: filedrop.stir.ac.uk
The filedrop facility at http://filedrop.stir.ac.uk has been revamped and improved in preparation for the launch of a new student email system. The filedrop allows users to work around the limits that are placed on the size of attachments in various email systems including the current student email system, SquirrelMail and the soon to be […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Monday 26th November 2012
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Monday 26th November at 11.00, Cottrell 2A13, Stirling Campus. Please note the change of time for this meeting to 11.00. All are welcome. Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, along with Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Professor David […]
Lyon Crescent – CampusNet unavailable due to equipment failure
**UPDATES AT BOTTOM** We are sorry to say that the following houses in Lyon Crescent have today suffered an equipment failure and this is unlikely to be fixed until Monday at the very earliest. The following houses are affected: 19, 21, 23, 25, 27, 29, 31, 33, 35, 37, 39 and 41 The […]
Staff Print – MFDs in public areas
A new MFD has been added to the staff print fleet. It is easily accessible to all staff and is in Cottrell 4V3a. This is a small space without a door and is shared with a student printer. The new Konica Minolta MFD is dark grey and is therefore distinct from the beige student printer. […]
Succeed downtime for maintenance
Succeed will be unavailable between 7.30am and 9.00am, Wed 24th Oct*, to expand the file store available to the system from 128Gb to 512Gb — the existing store is over 80% full. This should take about an hour but we are booking a little additional downtime as these activities are difficult to time precisely. Apologies for […]