University Information Services - Staff Learning & Development course timetable
February 2020
Tue 25 |
A Business Briefing to talk about the roadmap for the Raven authentication service and related IAM plans, including:
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Wed 26 |
An informal guidance session for anyone thinking about joining the IT Community and UIS Mentoring Scheme. Professional Development Manager, Rinku Raina will give a brief overview about what you can expect from joining the scheme. You'll have the chance to ask informal questions and hear from previous members of the scheme. |
March 2020
Tue 10 |
UIS Business Briefing: Microsoft Teams
POSTPONED
A Business Briefing which will mark the official launch of Microsoft Teams at UIS. There will be a quick demonstration of how it might transform the way you collaborate with your immediate colleagues, the UIS community, across the university and beyond |
Tue 24 |
Meet UIS' User Experience and Business Analyst team members. Find out what they do and how they can help you |
Tue 31 |
A Business Briefing to present an update on recent activities relating to IT Portfolios |
July 2020
Wed 8 |
A contextual, informative and interactive webinar-style event to provide guidance and helpful techniques for mentors enrolled on the UIS Mentoring Scheme and anyone interested in mentoring in general, to support their colleagues and understand how to develop to be an effective mentor. |
Tue 14 |
A contextual, informative and interactive webinar-style online event to provide guidance and helpful techniques for mentors enrolled on the UIS Mentoring Scheme and anyone interested in mentoring in general, to support their colleagues and understand how to develop to be an effective mentor. |
October 2020
Wed 14 |
Mental Health Day is an opportunity for all of us to raise awareness of mental health issues and advocate against social stigma. As part of UIS' Wellbeing initiative, Zara Sheldrake will present a Staff Seminar on wellbeing in the workplace. She'll explain key facts and theories around mental health, the added challenges of Covid-19 and how to look out for signs and symptoms of stress within ourselves and our colleagues, providing practical tips and advice to help you and those around you. |
Tue 20 |
Ian Leslie will present our annual view of the coming year in University IT, touching on pandemic-related issues, recent UIS critical activities and evolving priorities and portfolios. You'll have an opportunity to post questions during the live event. |
November 2020
Wed 4 |
A TechLink Community online event providing an overview of key aspects of cloud computing, such as:
There will be opportunities for Q&A, and follow up discussions. |
Thu 12 |
On World Usability Day, Kate Livingstone and Barney Brown will present an update on the University's Digital Presence Programme. Find out about the vision, activity this year so far and next steps. |
Tue 17 |
TechLink Community: Digital Admissions Overview and Update on the Digital Presence Programme
Finished
A TechLink Community online event for University and affiliated IT professionals. |
Wed 25 |
A TechLink Community online event providing an overview of key aspects of cloud computing, such as:
There will be opportunities for Q&A, and follow up discussions. In addition, there will be an:
With opportunities for Q&A, and follow up discussions. |
Thu 26 |
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December 2020
Tue 1 |
The Staff Review and Development (SRD) process provides the opportunity for Line managers to engage in constructive discussion with their staff about current and future work and their learning and development. This interactive online course will focus on an overview of the process, practical advice and useful reminders of good practice to help you to make the most of SRD |
Thu 3 |
The Staff Review and Development (SRD) process provides the opportunity for Line managers to engage in constructive discussion with their staff about current and future work and their learning and development. This interactive online course will focus on an overview of the process, practical advice and useful reminders of good practice to help you to make the most of SRD |
At this event learn more about the University’s plans to increase the accessibility of its online content and things you can do right now to improve yours. |
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Tue 8 |
The Staff Review and Development (SRD) process provides the opportunity for Line managers to engage in constructive discussion with their staff about current and future work and their learning and development. This interactive online course will focus on an overview of the process, practical advice and useful reminders of good practice to help you to make the most of SRD. |
Thu 10 |
The Staff Review and Development (SRD) process provides the opportunity for Line managers to engage in constructive discussion with their staff about current and future work and their learning and development. This interactive online course will focus on an overview of the process, practical advice and useful reminders of good practice to help you to make the most of SRD |
January 2021
Wed 27 |
Since cloud-based services do not always guarantee long-term retention for all data, and like all systems are not immune to outages and downtime, backup is still a requirement to reduce risks of data loss. This session will review backing-up one cloud to a different cloud system, and/or to a local storage system, for disaster recovery or business continuity. |
February 2021
Wed 3 |
In collaboration with UIS and ourcambridge, a series of drop in sessions has been designed to provide reviewees and reviewers with the opportunity to share best practice with others and to discuss some of the challenges around holding good SRD conversations and how they can be overcome. They are entirely optional and you can attend as many or as few as you would like. The sessions will be interactive and focus around key discussion topics. For some sessions, we may contact you and ask you to watch a short 5-10 minute film beforehand. Sessions:
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Wed 10 |
In collaboration with UIS and ourcambridge, a series of drop in sessions has been designed to provide reviewees and reviewers with the opportunity to share best practice with others and to discuss some of the challenges around holding good SRD conversations and how they can be overcome. They are entirely optional and you can attend as many or as few as you would like. The sessions will be interactive and focus around key discussion topics. For some sessions, we may contact you and ask you to watch a short 5-10 minute film beforehand. Sessions:
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Thu 18 |
In collaboration with UIS and ourcambridge, a series of drop in sessions has been designed to provide reviewees and reviewers with the opportunity to share best practice with others and to discuss some of the challenges around holding good SRD conversations and how they can be overcome. They are entirely optional and you can attend as many or as few as you would like. The sessions will be interactive and focus around key discussion topics. For some sessions, we may contact you and ask you to watch a short 5-10 minute film beforehand. Sessions:
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Tue 23 |
TechLink Community: MWS-Mythic Beasts web hosting options & COGEnT-CompTIA Cloud training pilot
Finished
Given the plan to decommission the Managed Web Service (MWS) later this calendar year, we will hear from and can engage with the Cambridge-based Mythic Beasts who have extensive understanding of our University systems and challenges, and local/international hosting options. In addition, following the successful Network+ training pilot, the four Universities comprising the COGEnT (Cambridge, Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh) consortium have agreed with CompTIA to follow up with some Cloud training. CompTIA will introduce their Cloud Essentials and Cloud+ courses, and next steps for a mixed cloud training pilot (with a few sponsored places, and favourable academic pricing). |
Thu 25 |
Hear an update on recent activities from members of the Digital Presence Programme. You can post your questions in advance and during the event via the Teams Live Q&A feature. |