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12 December 2013

New IT website for Spring term

Filed under: Colchester, Loughton, News, Southend — Tags: , , — Communications, CER @ 5.15 pm
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The new IT website will get you a solution quicker and easier

Information Systems Services (ISS) will launch its new website early in the Spring term. The focus of this major rewrite is to deliver a better user experience by improving the accessibility and usability of our web pages. Among other new features and improvements the new website will:

  •  Get you to a solution quicker, easier
  • Make prominent popular support requests
  •  Better inform you of news and announcements
  • Fit more closely to the University’s brand

What’s moving and when?

The new website will be delivered in three phases. Phase one will be delivered early in the Spring term and will see the amalgamation of the following websites:

For further information please visit the ISS news feed or email itweb@essex.ac.uk.

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24 October 2013

Disruption to IT services, Tuesday 5 November 00:00 – 07:00

Filed under: Colchester, Loughton, News, Southend — Tags: , , , — Communications, CER @ 1.43 pm
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IT disruption Tuesday 5 November

Due to essential maintenance work, the main IT datacentre will be taken offline on Tuesday 5 November between 00:00 hours and 07:00 hours.

Although every effort has been made to minimise disruption to core IT services, the following service will be unavailable during the stated times:

  • ListenAgain lecture playback

Users may also notice a five minute drop in internet connectivity on Tuesday 5 November, sometime between the hours of 07:00 and 09:00, due to work being carried out by our external provider.

Should there be any problems during this window the break may be extended. We apologise for any inconvenience these disruptions may cause.

To get the latest service news and alerts, follow us on Twitter @EssexISS and bookmark the IT@Essex blog. 

 

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Find your way – now updated for iOS7

Filed under: Colchester, News — Tags: , , , — Communications, CER @ 12.10 pm

A new version of the University’s popular Find Your Way app for use on Android and Apple smartphones is now available, that’s also suitable for the new Apple iOS7.

Find Your Way - now updated for iOS7

Find Your Way – now updated for iOS7

The web version has also been updated. Download the updated app from Google or Apple iTunes.

Around 2,500 people each day are now using the app, but we know more will find it useful once they discover it, so please continue to spread the word and the web address.

The developers are keen to encourage feedback to make ongoing improvements, so please use the in-built feedback form on the web and apps with your ideas or suggestions.

All our campus maps are available on the find your way page of our website.

Keep up to date with IT developments on the IT@Essex blog.

 

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Print credit kiosk now available in Lab C

Filed under: Colchester, News — Tags: , , , — Communications, CER @ 11.15 am

You can now top-up your print credit balance on our new self-service kiosk located in Lab C.

Top up your printer credit at our new kiosk

Top up your printer credit at our new kiosk

From the main screen, simply login to the kiosk with your Essex username and password from the user-friendly touchscreen and keyboard.

Alternatively, if your student card has been issued this academic year, you can use “contactless login” by simply touching the marked area on the kiosk with

your card and you will be automatically logged in.

The minimum top-up amount is five pence. The kiosk accepts coins and notes – not cards.

With the introduction of the new kiosk, the IT Helpdesk will no longer sell “paper” print credit vouchers. You must use the kiosk or pay online.

The kiosk will be available 24hours a day, 7 days a week.

Keep up to date with developments in ISS by bookmarking the IT@ Essex blog.

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11 October 2013

Listen again upgrade

Filed under: Colchester, News, Southend — Tags: , , , , , — Communications, CER @ 9.02 am
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All our teaching rooms are now covered by Listen Again

Our innovative and highly popular service, Listen Again, has been expanded to cover every centrally timetabled teaching room in Colchester and Southend campuses.

The service now covers over 180 teaching rooms. This means we will be probably the first University in the UK to have 100 per cent coverage of our teaching rooms.

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E-mail account upgrade

Filed under: Colchester, Loughton, News, Southend — Tags: , , , — Communications, CER @ 8.53 am

All undergraduate and postgraduate taught student e-mail accounts have been migrated and upgraded to Microsoft Office 365.  The key benefits to you are: Monitor-(410)200x300

  • 500 times more e-mail storage space (100MB to 50GB) in the “cloud”; and
  • an improved platform for scalability and future online collaboration.

Re-configuring your e-mail client If you use Outlook Web Access (http://email.essex.ac.uk), the transition should be seamless and you will notice only some slight changes in the interface. You will access your account in the same way, though you will see an additional login prompt. If you are using another method of reading your email (eg Outlook, Thunderbird, iPhone, Andriod etc) you may need to refer to the FAQ pages to re-configure your client following the migration. If you still experience problems please e-mail the IT Helpdesk at desk@essex.ac.uk or call +44 1206 85 2345 (or ext. 2345). They will ask you some questions to determine exactly what the problem is. Read more about  these changes in our IT blog. 

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CMR is now ORB

Filed under: Colchester, Loughton, News, Southend — Tags: , , , , — Communications, CER @ 8.37 am

The Course Materials Repository (CMR) is being moved to a new server and renamed ORB – Online Resource Bank.Monitor-(410)200x300

ORB has a number of improvements over the CMR, including that it is easier to publish materials to ORB when off campus.

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