We are approaching one of the many busy times for the student system with Student Module Registration opening at 9.00am on Monday 3rd December. A number of technical measures have been put in place to help process student requests as quickly as possible. However, as a precaution, we would be grateful if staff could […]
Category: IT News
Go live date for new student email system set
Further to our previous posting about the new student email system, Outlook Web App (part of Microsoft’s cloud based Office365 offering), we are pleased to confirm that the new system will go live during the winter vacation on 30 January 2013. We now have a pilot group of c60 students live on the system […]
Staff: donate your old desktop printer to charity
SEND YOUR OLD DESKTOP PRINTER TO CHARITY BEFORE IT RUNS OUT OF TONER/INK Now that the staff print system has been successfully rolled out across the university, you may have been wondering what to do with your old desktop printer. The Staff Print Project Board has agreed to a one-time drive of collecting printers […]
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 […]
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 […]