All current staff of the University may have an email account on the UIS mail system, Hermes. Your College or Department may arrange for your UIS accounts to be created before your arrival. If this is the case then you can collect the passwords for your accounts. Otherwise you may apply for an email account.
Some departments run their own mail servers and, in certain cases, it may be more appropriate for staff to have accounts on a departmental system.
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Your University GoogleDrive: 20GB quota limit from December 2022
19 January 2022
Google is replacing its G Suite for Education model licensing model in October 2022. As a result, there will be a new limit of 20GB on personal GoogleDrive spaces provided with G Suite@Cambridge accounts. If your GoogleDrive usage exceeds 20GB after 1 December 2022, your University account GoogleDrive will become read-only until your usage is brought below 20GB.
Moodle offline for upgrade during 06:00–12:00 on Tuesday 11 January
10 January 2022
Moodle will be unavailable from 06:00 to 12:00 on Tuesday 11 January while we upgrade it to version 3.9. During the upgrade, you won’t be able to view or upload sessions on Panopto because access is managed via your Moodle login. Assessment Moodle, ICE Moodle and Clinical School Moodle users will be unaffected. An outline...
HEAT authentication method changing to Azure on 13 January
7 January 2022
We're changing the authentication method for the IT service management system, HEAT, to Microsoft Azure on Thursday 13 January 2022. What is changing? You should continue to use the same URL for accessing HEAT: https://uniofcam.saasiteu.com. However, the 'Sign in' screen you'll be directed to will look slightly different,...
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