New Director of IT Services
On 3rd January John Leary joined the Department as the new Director of IT Services.
On 3rd January John Leary joined the Department as the new Director of IT Services.
IT Services have recently been reviewing campus licences for all our software and specifically where “home use” rights are available. As such we have had to review and update ourContinue reading Software licensing – advice change
Over the last few days there have been a number of problems with the Blackboard service at which manifested itself as very slow log on times and problems navigating throughContinue reading Blackboard issues update
For followers of the IT Services Twitter feed, you will have seen regular announcements for Training sessions on the Microsoft Office suite of applications and other such wonders.
At 18.00 on 1 November, IT Services will be performing a hardware upgrade to the Blackboard system.
IT Services take this opportunity to apologise for loss of network service on the evening of 20 and morning of 21 October both for internal and external customers. Initially thisContinue reading Network outage 20/21 Oct 2011
A recent JISC report into email and collaboration services* in Higher Education found that 35% of UK universities are now using externally hosted services and of those, 88% are usingContinue reading readingLive
From 12 September 2011, IT Services will be trialling a new remote assistance service with directorates, schools and departments that are supported by our desktop IT support technicians. This willContinue reading Remote Assistance
Following on from the work on the 16 August, there will be brief interruptions to Internet connectivity for various areas of the University network as follows:
The results of this survey are published today and the University of Reading is rated as in the top 20 nationally.