UIS News

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...

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...

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...

We’ll be carrying out a series of planned essential maintenance to the University Wireless Service during 25–27 March.

We are rolling out the Google Drive 500GB quota and Microsoft 100GB (visitor and guest accounts) and 1TB (staff and student) storage quotas to all University accounts. These quotas are already in place for new accounts and existing accounts using less than the quota. The quotas are in response to Google and Microsoft's...