Engage – your new active learning platform
October 19, 2018
Earlier this year, we announced we were upgrading our Lecture Capture service, Echo360 and we invited you to choose a new name. We’re delighted to confirm that ‘Engage’, your new active learning platform is now operational in all UK teaching rooms. Congratulations to Dimitrios Potsos (pictured on the right) on winning the name competition. Via Engage you can …
Getting Started with… OneDrive, Teams, OneNote and Forms
October 3, 2018
O365 Workshop Dates Autumn 2018 Want to get to grips with all the Office 365 has to offer? Our series of 1 hour sessions will give you the basics to get started with four key Office 365 applications: OneDrive, Teams, OneNote and Forms. Details are below. Please register if you would like to attend. If you are …
Upcoming network maintenance in October
October 2, 2018
Information Services will be undertaking essential maintenance to the University network on the dates listed below: Tuesday 9 October between 07:00-09:00 and 17:00-22:00 Wednesday 10 October between 18:00-22:00 Tuesday 16 October between 07:00-09:00 and 17:00-22:00 Tuesday 23 October between 07:00-09:00 and 17:00-22:00 (contingency date) During this time, there will be intermittent outages to network services, …
A new service, A new name and staff training
August 17, 2018
Following the blog in April announcing a new ‘Active Learning Platform’; we are pleased to share the result of the recent competition to name the new service. The winner is: ‘Engage’ chosen by Dimitrios Potsos – Chemical and Environmental Engineering Thanks to all students who voted to name the new ‘Active Learning Platform’. The new capabilities …
Migration of recordings to Echo360
July 10, 2018
Following our update in April announcing a new ‘Active Learning Platform’; we are pleased to inform you that the process of migrating recordings to the new platform has started. What recordings are being migrated? We are currently migrating all course recordings from the last three academic years, 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18 into the new system. This …
Win a Fitbit Charge 2! – A new service, A new name
June 5, 2018
The University is replacing its lecture capture service ready for the new Academic Year and we want your ideas on what to call the new service. We are after a name that recognises that it offers much more than recordings. The new Echo360 Active Learning Platform will support your learning in different ways and in …
Recruitment now open for 2018 Student IT tutors
May 31, 2018
Student IT Support (SITS) tutors recruitment Are you a postgraduate or undergraduate student who would like to help other students with IT services when they arrive at the University? If you are, then a job on the Student IT Support programme (SITS) at this year’s start-of-session could be just the opportunity for you! Here’s what’s on offer …
Research data management
May 25, 2018
A service fit for the future The biggest question our IT-Services will have to answer in the near future is how we help researcher and academic staff achieve our research ambition. With this in mind, a new Research Data Management (RDM) Service is being developed to put in place a capability to comply with funders’ requirements for …
Introducing the Echo360 Active Learning Platform
April 26, 2018
Following the Lecture Capture Update blog, the University has signed a new contract for the latest version of Echo360 – the ‘Active Learning Platform’. The new Echo360 platform is a cloud-based solution that works with classroom hardware or software capture solutions as well as personal computers for the creation of learning content. Learners can use the …
Matlab on the go!
March 26, 2018
All students and staff now have access to online and mobile versions of Matlab software In addition to the standard on and off site versions of Matlab, staff and students can use the software on mobile devices or online via a web browser. Visit the new IS Software Library on workspace for full details of …