Upgrades to analogue telephone lines
BT is switching off the UK’s old public switched telephone network (PSTN) and Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) services in 2025. The University’s telephone service will not be affected by this change because it is an IP-based digital service. However, the University currently uses analogue lines for some other...
Interim senior leadership arrangements for UIS
Professor Ian Leslie, the Director of University Information Services (UIS), retires in May. Our Chief Operating Officer (COO), Chris Russell, will act as UIS’s Interim Director until the appointment of a permanent replacement. Four members of UIS’s Senior Leadership Team have volunteered to share the responsibilities of...
Change to Turnitin technical support
UIS now supports the technical aspects of the University's Turnitin text matching software licence. The Education Quality and Policy Office (EQPO) is responsible for any policy guidelines relating to academic integrity. Turnitin is widely used in UK universities. It text matches submitted work against a large database of...
Moodle upgrade
We will not be upgrading our version of Moodle this summer. Instead, we'll use the time to advance projects to improve the Moodle user experience. Our current version of Moodle (4.1) is a long-term support (LTS) release, which means it will be supported for 36 months and security updated well beyond our intended upgrade...
Planned maintenance to the University Wireless Service 25-27 March 2024
We’ll be carrying out a series of planned essential maintenance to the University Wireless Service during 25–27 March.
