We will be contacting each School at the beginning of June to discuss the timing for these practical induction sessions during Week 0 or the beginning of Week 1, so that they can be included in the Registration and Welcome Programme booklet. The Computing Service is planning to completely overhaul and restructure its IT Skills Training programme to better meet the needs of the new curriculum and emerging Human Resources Strategy. It is hoped to introduce this new scheme as soon as possible but it is anticipated that a transitional period will be necessary. The following progress has been made on Computing Service Development as described in our last report. A. User Support Development of a new online course booking facility - a pilot service for booking Computing Service daytime courses, which includes sending email reminders and a waiting list facility, is now in use.
Staff can book a course on behalf of their unit, charging the cost to their unit's account code.
A number of other units have expressed an interest in using the Keystone tracking system software. Replacement of Viglen PCs - dependent on additional funding. Provision of a second firewall to provide additional capacity and resilience - completed as part of the LeNSE installation but not yet fully deployed. Evaluation of PCs which form the new Southern Universities Purchasing Consortium agreement - ongoing.