Panels are the name for the ‘boxes’ that appear on your My Succeed page, for example ‘My Courses’. You can add new panels to your My Succeed and Information Services has created two new panels: ‘My Reading Lists’ — this panel will show all reading lists from your modules and the reading list can […]
Resident students are invited to join a Network Gaming Pilot scheme
In response to demand from resident students, over the 2012 summer vacation Information Services has been testing a concept that should allow users to use games consoles on the University network. Before this is made available to all residents it needs to be further tested by real users. Network Gaming Pilot If you are […]
Getting to grips with the Library – new students start here
Got a reading list and no idea where to start? Not sure how to find a book in the Library? Want to know how to read an ebook? Need to find journal articles for an essay and not sure how to do this? All these questions, and many more, will be answered at one of our […]
New Library Resource – 19th Century UK Periodicals Online: New Readership Series
Thanks to JISC, we now have free access to one series of 19th Century UK Periodicals Online. From the JISC Collections website http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/ “This resource, subtitled New Readerships: Women’s, Children’s, Humour and Leisure/Sport, consists of almost 100 academically selected titles and approximately 1.2 million pages. It focuses on the birth of modern magazine publishing […]
Student email – security settings tightened so a tweak to your browser may be necessary
During the summer, it was necessary to tighten up security on the student email servers. As a result of this, those of you using Internet Explorer may need to make a small change to your Internet Options as follows: Go to Tools > Internet Options > Advanced tab, then scroll down the list of […]
New PCs in Library with inactivity timeout feature
All of the student open access PCs on Levels 3 and 4 of the Library have been replaced over the summer with brand new machines. This should help address some of the issues raised in the IS Satisfaction Survey re the frequent breakdowns in library PCs. Another frequently made point in the Satisfaction Survey […]
Temporary closure of Social Study Zone / noise on level 2 Library
Scaffolding will be erected underneath the lightwell on Level 2 of the Stirling campus Library on Wed 29th August to allow it to be cleaned. Caledonian Cleaning will cordon off the area and it is hoped there will be minimal disturbance. The Social Study Zone next to the Library will also close to students from Wed 29th August […]
Succeed Downtime
Succeed Downtime Succeed will be down from 09.00-17.00 on Saturday 25th August to upgrade Succeed to service pack 9 (it’s current on 7) and upgrade the database that Succeed uses as well. These changes bring Succeed into line with the recommended version of the database and the latest set of enhancements and bug fixes, […]
Succeed training: Introduction to Succeed for instructors
eLD will be running training sessions for staff who will be building and running courses in Succeed (instructors) over the next few weeks. Six Succeed training sessions have been arranged on the following dates/times: Wed 22nd August (09.30-12.00) Thu 23rd August (14.00-16.30) Fri 24th August (09.30-12.00) Mon 27th August (14.00-16.30) Tue 28th August (09.30-12.00) […]
Further Internet service downtime,
I refer to the earlier message relating to downtime on 7th August (reproduced below). As it was not possible to complete all of the work necessary in the time available there will be a further period of disruption to services between 0730 and 0830 next Tuesday, 14th August. The impacts of the outage will be […]