Timetabling issues
We have had the following advice from Philip Edwards in the Central Room Bookings office regarding the Timetabling Website and thought it may be useful:
New Director of IT Services
On 3rd January John Leary joined the Department as the new Director of IT Services.
Software licensing – advice change
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
Blackboard issues update
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
IT Training
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.
Blackboard hardware upgrade
At 18.00 on 1 November, IT Services will be performing a hardware upgrade to the Blackboard system.
Network outage 20/21 Oct 2011
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
readingLive
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
Internet Explorer upgrade
IT Services have deployed the automatic update to allow computers in the University domain to upgrade to Internet Explorer 8. The reasons for this are primarily to do with resolving issuesContinue reading Internet Explorer upgrade
Changes to site licensed software
The following changes to site licensed software have taken place over the summer vacation: