There will be an Information Services Open User Forum in the Enterprise Zone of the library on Stirling campus on Wednesday 6 June at 11.30am, to which all are welcome. IT and library representatives in academic Schools and administrative departments, along with Students’ Union representatives, are especially encouraged to attend. Please send any […]
Category: IT News
Load balancing for Succeed
Succeed will be going load-balanced at mid-semester. Load-balancing Succeed with two servers will just about double the capacity of Succeed and make Succeed more robust as a single server crashing will not stop the system. Succeed will be down on Thursday 5th April (mid-semester week) to do the necessary work. It will probably be […]
Succeed Downtime
Succeed will not be available between 10am-12noon this Saturday 14th January to install three service packs (sp5, sp6, sp7). Details on these upgrades were given in the last Issue: Â http://intranet.stir.ac.uk/issue/ISSUE87_December2011.pdf (p7) Â Simon Booth Succeed Admin
eLearning Forum: Digital Assessment and Feedback I
This session chaired by Dr Kevin Brosnan will feature presentations from members of the School of Education reflecting on their experiences of marking ‘electronically’.  Kevin will set the scene with an overview of the research into the benefits/drawback of digital feedback. Staff from the School of Education will offer their insights about the advantages […]
FOR STAFF: Winter is coming, get set up to work from home
If we are unlucky enough to encounter more heavy snow this year, one possible option (if your manager is agreeable) is to work from home. Remote desktop allows you to connect from your home PC to your office PC and access all of the software and tools that you are accustomed to using at work […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Friday 2 December 2011
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Friday 2 December 2011 at 1.00pm, room 2B87, Cottrell Building, Stirling Campus.All are welcome. IT and Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, along with Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Â Professor Douglas Brodie, School of Arts and Humanities will Chair […]
Open User Forum (Stirling Campus) – Friday 2 December 2011
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Friday 2 December 2011 at 1.00pm, room still to be confirmed, Stirling Campus. All are welcome. IT and Library representatives in Academic Schools and Administrative Departments, along with Students’ Union representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Please send any items for the agenda to IS […]
Loss of Internet Connectivity, Friday 21/10/11 22:00 – Saturday 22/10/11 07:00
We have been notified by our service provider that due to motorway construction work, the telecoms fibres which provide the university with JANET and Internet connectivity will be disconnected for 4-8 hours during the stated window. This work also affects our backup circuit, so there will be no external connectivity whatsoever during the outage. Â […]
Wireless Network in Student Residences
Information Services are now offering Wireless Access Points (WAPs) for sale in the Library. This is in response to the growing number of devices being brought to the University, such as smartphones and iPads, which have WiFi network connectivity but no wired connection.  Although wireless networking (as well as wired) will be installed in […]
Succeed – eLearning forum (9th September)
Come along to the eLearning forum and learn about some of the features that Succeed offers to support your teaching. In particular:Â Wikis, Blogs and Personal Learning Environments (Succeed – Campus Pack) Succeed Campus Pack offers easy to use and set up Web 2.0 tools in our learning environment. Campus Pack includes a range of […]