Advice for Faculties, Service Areas on how to prepare This article is also available as a file for download Background The cloud file storage service, Box, will be withdrawn during 2020 following significant changes to the licensing model. The plan is to for Information Services (IS) to help users migrate team data into SharePoint and individual data (your own files) into OneDrive. […]
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New Stirling theses added to Research Repository in March and April #StirNewTheses
Congratulations to our Postgraduate Research students who submitted their theses to the University’s research repository, STORRE, during March and April. Some of the theses are available for reading immediately: Cinema and Cultural Memory in The Bahamas in the 1950s. By Monique Toppin http://hdl.handle.net/1893/30780 Webs of influence: Investigating the effects of the forest mycorrhizosphere on soil carbon […]
External email tagging
Phishing is a top cyber security threat to the University of Stirling. Personally-identifiable information – the primary target of phishing attempts – which falls into the wrong hands can cause much financial and reputational damage to the University and its employees. Phishing attacks are often launched by including malicious attachments or links in email. When […]
New Office 365 releases: Dial in to Teams meetings, PowerBI, MyAnalytics & more
It seems, just now, as if every week brings a new raft of releases from Microsoft. We’re already waiting for the new 3×3 video layout in Teams, so what’s next? Additional MS Teams functionality: Dial in to Teams meetings. People on phones can dial into a Teams meeting. When audio conferencing is switched on for […]
Office 365 rollout update…box migration work proceeding
The last couple of months have been, yes UNPRECEDENTED in many many ways, and as a result, our efforts on the Office 365 rollout / Box migration project have been very much on the backburner. As a result, we have not managed to migrate as much Box content as we would have wanted by this […]
Office 365 Multi-Factor Authentication is coming!
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been a substantial rise in scams/phishing attacks preying on people’s fears about COVID-19. In the University sector this has been widespread and some institutions have faced damaging ransomware attacks as a result of compromised accounts. We have been seeking guidance from external advisory boards and looking […]
1 to 1 appointment with your Subject Librarian
Did you know that you can still make an appointment with your Librarian? You can still book an appointment and we will try to meet via Microsoft Teams. Go to your Library Subject Guide and click the Book an Appointment button. Our Librarians will be happy to help you with any questions or support you may need […]
LinkedInLearning
The University has a subscription to LinkedInLearning which you can access from the portal. LinkedInLearning has many academic learner paths. However, there is much, much more to LinkedInLearning. There are so many options that you can choose from. At the moment they seem to be championing many wellbeing learner paths. When you access LinkedInLearning you […]
Setting up an open Teams meeting/event
As well as having the ability to set up and run online meetings, Teams can be used for online events without a pre-determined guest list. Uses for this could include a virtual cafe event, a drop in training session that you want to advertise to students and so on. The good news is that this is […]
Covid19 – work from home FAQs
This last fortnight has been unprecedented in terms of the impact on IT services and infrastructure as staff have rushed to start working remotely. For some, this is the first time they have worked from home. This post reflects on the most frequently asked questions we have been experiencing at the Information Centre. Don’t forget […]