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 […]
Category: IT News
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 […]
September Succeed Training for staff
Further training has been arranged for Succeed at the start of September. The dates are shown below. (All the sessions are in training room 2 (level 4) in the library)  Friday 2 September 2-5pm Tuesday 6 September 10-1pm Thursday 8 September 10-1pm  For Pathfoot based staff we are offering the date (location to […]
Advice for staff on preparing for the upgrade to Windows 7/Office 2010
Information Services is undertaking the upgrading of the vast majority of staff PCs to Windows 7 and Office 2010 over the vacation period. Â We have prepared a number of guides to help staff prepare for the upgrade and also some FAQs on the obvious changes / new features in Windows 7 and Office 2010. […]
IT Use Policy Changes
The Information Technology Use Policy aims to define what constitutes acceptable use of the University’s IT and to identify management responsibilities for the monitoring of the operation of the policy and the handling of incidents resulting from breaches. A revision of this Policy was agreed at the last meeting of University Court and becomes effective […]
Open User Forum Meeting – Friday 20th May 2011
REMINDER  Please note that there will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Friday 20 May at 11.00am in 2B86, Cottrell Building, Stirling Campus.  All staff and students are welcome to attend. Come along and meet the Director of Information Services and Departmental representatives.  Ian Murray, Deputy Head of School of […]