Due to an essential student system upgrade, the portal will be down on Tuesday 7th April from 10:00am. The upgrade should take approximately 2 hours, after which normal portal service will be resumed. Â During the portal downtime, the following services will be accessible directly: Â WebCT: http://webct.stir.ac.uk Library catalogue: http://libcat.stir.ac.uk Staff webmail: https://mail.stir.ac.uk Student […]
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Portal downtime Friday 16 – Sunday 18 January
Due to the need for extensive, essential maintenance to the database, the staff and student portal will be unavailable from 17.00 on Friday, 16th January, and for the whole of Saturday, 17th January. The portal will remain at risk on Sunday, 18th January.Access to WebCT, webmail and some other functions will still be available at […]
Latest edition of ISSUE (IS newsletter) now out
The latest edition (number 74, November 2008) of the Information Services newsletter, ISSUE, is now available in printed format (from the Library) and also on the IS web site at:  http://www.is.stir.ac.uk/aboutis/issue.php  Articles include: an interview with the new Director of Information Services, Mark Toole; Library Project update; article about StirGate (new search tool); Web of […]
Information Services Open User Forum
There will be an Information Services Open User Forum on Wednesday 3 December 2008 at 2.00pm in 2A13, Cottrell Building, Stirling Campus. Â All are welcome. IS representatives in academic and administrative departments and SUSA representatives are especially encouraged to attend. Â Please send any items for the agenda to IS Office (liboff1@stir.ac.uk) before the […]
Portal downtime Tuesday 28th October
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 […]
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 […]