Following an unsuccessful attempt on 12/07/2013 to carry out a software upgrade on core network equipment, we have been in contact with our support provider and they have supplied advice which should allow the upgrade to be completed successfully. Therefore, there will be two short interruptions to all off-campus Internet services, sometime between 07:30 and […]
Category: IT News
New Module Opening Dates in Canvas
THIS ITEM DATES BACK TO 2013. IF YOU HAVE BEEN SENT A LINK TO IT, PLEASE LOOK FOR MORE RECENT POSTINGS ON MODULE OPENING DATES (CLICK ‘IS NEWS BLOG’ ABOVE TO GO TO THE MOST RECENT ARTICLES). Canvas, the system the university uses for your module materials, will be available from Mon 4 September. From that […]
Turnitin scheduled maintenance, Saturday 10 August
The Turnitin service (linked from Succeed) may be intermittently unavailable during a scheduled maintenance period on Saturday, August 10th, from 3pm to 7pm. Simon Booth Succeed Administrator
Upgrade of student print and copy system on Stirling campus
The Student Print and Copy Service in the Stirling campus Library and computing labs, is being upgraded with new equipment and software between the 1st and 2nd August. The old system will continue to operate during the installation on the existing printer/copiers in the Library Short Loan area and Pathfoot G10. These areas will […]
Succeed Training for staff
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 […]
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. […]