UEA - News / Service Status - News http://www.uea.ac.uk An RSS feed for news items from News / Service Status at the University of East Anglia. Copyright: (C) The University of East Anglia 2005. all rights reserved. Changes to booking for individual study rooms with PCs http://www.uea.ac.uk/is/news/study-room-pcs 1.236448 From Wednesday 3 April individual study rooms with PCs will be available for half day bookings, bookable up to one week in advance as with other individual study spaces. There will no longer be a charge for using these rooms. Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:08:00 +0100 New Portal login screen http://www.uea.ac.uk/blackboardhelp/newportallogin 1.236158 From Tuesday 9 April, users logging in from off-campus or using their own devices will see a new login screen Fri, 22 Mar 2013 10:10:00 +0000 UEA to upgrade to Internet Explorer 9 from 3 April 2013 http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows7/Getting-started-with-Internet-Explorer-9 1.236187 From Wednesday 3rd April, ITCS will start to roll-out Internet Explorer 9 to all UEA PC’s running Windows7 on Campus. This upgrade will happen in the background, and won’t require any user interaction with the update process. IE9 looks a little different to the version currently installed, and this guide may be helpful Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:51:00 +0000 An introduction to Twitter and Facebook http://www.uea.ac.uk/is/lt/minibites#twitter 1.236420 This session organised by the Technology enhanced learning team will look at how social media can be used in teaching or to support student learning. Speakers will be Tim Lancester from CHE and Toby Smith and Sarah Drake from AHP who will talk about their experiences. Wed, 20 Mar 2013 14:59:00 +0000 New method being introduced for signing in to Library e-resources http://www.uea.ac.uk/is/er/off-campus-access/federated-access 1.228055 We are starting to use a new login page that will provide single sign on to access online resources such as e-books, periodicals, journal articles and other online materials both off campus and from your own devices. Tue, 11 Dec 2012 08:00:00 +0000 Mini Bites Sessions http://www.uea.ac.uk/is/news/mini-bites 1.231382 Mini Bites are one-hour sessions where academics demonstrate and or discuss specific technologies they have used in their teaching or to support student learning. The technologies discussed in each session are all technologies that could be implemented by any academic at UEA. Wed, 27 Feb 2013 09:15:00 +0000