The new academic term started this week and we would like to remind colleagues of the high volumes of queries and issues being received by the IT Service Desk, and our other DTS colleagues, due to a large number of the University community continuing to work remotely or online.

Welcome Week was a huge success, it was great to see staff back on campus and lots of new students engaging with DTS services. Due to these increases in interest in our services we are now seeing even higher volume of calls and emails.

In order to help with the volume of calls and emails, we would like to remind you that the quickest and easiest way to log a ticket is via our IT Self Service Portal. You can use the Portal to log tickets, check on the progress of your outstanding ones and to refer to our FAQs and helpful knowledgebase articles. Please do have a check here for a solution before contacting the team.

We recommend only using our telephone lines for urgent issues, there are a number of staff and students currently trying to reach DTS for support. Our telephone lines have a maximum wait time of 45 minutes, and so if your issue is not urgent, please consider leaving these free for those whose issue is. To assist students and staff in teaching and learning environments, we have a new option to Press 1 for urgent T&L issues. You will be connected with a member of DTS who will log your query and escalate this as urgent for you. We hope that this will reduce the disruption to students and staff in classroom environments, whether on campus or remotely. If you press 1 and your call is not related to teaching and learning, or urgent, you will be asked to re-join the queue or to log a ticket via the Portal.

With the return of students and some of our colleagues to campus, our IT Service Desk Counter in the Library has reopened. The Library is operating a bookable system for Study Spaces, and you will need to book a slot for your IT Support too. To do so, there is a ‘Book Now’ link on the DTS website (at the bottom of the webpage) and you will be asked to submit a few details. Please note that you will not be able to visit the IT Service Desk Counter without a booking confirmation. You can access the form directly through this link.

Recording rooms are also now available to book for staff, providing an on campus place to record teaching content, without the distractions of the home. For further information please visit the DTS page on Recording Rooms.