Due to an essential upgrade, the portal will be down on Tuesday 28th October from 9.30am. The upgrade should take no more than an hour, after which normal portal service will be resumed.  During the portal downtime, the following services will be accessible directly:  WebCT: http://webct.stir.ac.uk Library catalogue: http://libcat.stir.ac.uk Staff webmail: https://mail.stir.ac.uk Student […]
Category: IT News
IT Training courses – Stirling campus
IT training courses will run from Monday 29th September to Thursday 13th November 2008. These courses are open to all staff and students.  Full course schedules along with descriptions are available at http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/help/training/currentopen.php. Booking is done online via the Library and IT Skills course in WebCT https://webct.stir.ac.uk/webct/logon/2151425001 (uni login required).  An online guide which […]
Access to modules in WebCT
Modules for the majority of returning students will be added to your “My WebCT” page from 15th September. First year students will have their modules added around 1pm on Wednesday 17th September once the Student Programmes Office have completed the module allocation process. Â If you do not see the modules you are expecting to […]
Get cheap Microsoft software
By popular demand Microsoft is pleased to announce the return of the Ultimate Steal. Just as a refresher, the Ultimate Steal offers a full copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Ultimate Edition to students and staff for £38.95 GBP and it’s finally back  In a nutshell, The Ultimate Steal is:  A time-limited offer available […]
RSS feed now available
You can now subscribe to an RSS feed of the Information Services news headlines – simply click on the RSS symbol to get updates. RSS is a useful way to keep up to date with changes to webpages, journal contents, news feeds, etc. You can subscribe to RSS feeds in Internet Explorer 7, or by […]
WebCT Upgrade: Saturday 16th August
WebCT will be unavailable for the upgrades to version 8.0.1 and disk storage on Saturday, 16 th August. I expect the system to be down between 10.00-14.00. The upgrade of the file storage should bring performance and stability benefits. Â WebCT 8 is not a major upgrade (there was no WebCT 7) but rather some […]
Improvements to staff email system
The staff email system is being improved by the replacement of all of the servers and the storage hardware, and implementation of the latest version of the email server software (Microsoft Exchange 2007). These changes will make the system faster and more resilient in the event of hardware failures. The standard mail quota is also […]
Reminder: Shibboleth and EZProxy arriving soon
From 31st July 2008 JISC will cease funding for the Athens Access Management System currently used to provide authenticated access to many of the Library’s web based subscription resources such as online journals, abstract databases, and e-books.  To replace Athens , Information Services are implementing two new Access Management systems: Shibboleth and EZProxy. Both […]
New SPAM rules to go live on staff email
Auto deletion of high-scoring SPAM will start on 20th June  You may recall that, on 7th April 2008, Information Services announced a pilot to test the viability of automatically deleting incoming email messages which had a high probability of being spam (see our SPAM pilot web page for details).  Users were invited to send […]
Stirling’s Super STORRE goes Global
On 9th April the University announced that it had become the first academic institution in the UK to oblige staff to make all their published research available online. This press release on the Portal has further details.  Professor Ian Simpson, our Deputy Principal (Research and Knowledge Transfer), was quoted:  “We believe that the […]