Online recruitment using Collaborate

Our online recruitment has so far used Blackboard Collaborate as the platform for talks, interviews and panel deliberations. Collaborate seems to work well for this, and has the advantage that most teaching staff are familiar with it. It allows external guests (who can be from outside the university) to take part.

Collaborate works in most browsers, and if there are issues (e.g., with screen sharing), then changing browser often fixes them. Here's Blackboard's list of supported browsers:

How to test your network

If you can't access Informatics or University resources from home, Computing Support will try to help - but first please do these few quick tests, so that you can tell Support which of them succeeded.

Network tests

On the machine you are having the problem on, please visit the following web sites:

Where are my files?

... and how do I get to them?

Your files can be stored in a number of places. When you're using DICE or a managed platform, accessing your files will mostly be seamless - but when you're using a self-managed machine, or you're in an unusual location (such as working from home), you may need to know where they are stored.

Supported Macs

If you have an Apple Mac deployed after July 2022, it will be running the University's Supported Mac platform. This uses software called JAMF to manage certain things on your Mac.

Supported Macs get useful University tie-ins like access to University facilities, useful software, and extra security, all set up securely so you don't have to worry about them. It's all maintained automatically and remotely.

This happens in addition to your normal Mac accounts and software, which you still control. You do still have root rights.

Appleton Tower 5.07 teaching studio AV

Overview

The Appleton Tower 5.07 teaching studio consists of one presenter desk and six group desks. All seven desks are equipped with a DICE desktop. In the past the BYOD option allowed using a wireless WePresent technology, this is now obsolete and will not work. Trailing HDMI and VGA leads for directly connecting laptops are also provided at each desk. The output of the presenter desk can be displayed at each group desk.

Appleton Tower 5.04 teaching studio AV

Overview

The Appleton Tower 5.04 teaching studio consists of one presenter desk and six group desks. All seven desks are equipped with a DICE desktop. In the past the BYOD option allowed using a wireless WePresent technology, this is now obsolete and will not work. Trailing HDMI and VGA leads for directly connecting laptops are also provided at each desk. The output of the presenter desk can be displayed at each group desk.

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