University Information Services - Staff Learning & Development course timetable

The Digital Admissions project aims to support the transformation of the information systems, processes and tools used in the undergraduate admissions process.

At this 'town hall' event, you will hear from project members who will show the progress made to the service and invite you to ask questions.

The Digital Presence Programme is a five year programme responsible for improving how we provide and support websites and intranets for the University of Cambridge (amongst other things). It's important that departmental and institutional heads are aware of the programme's goals and intentions to make significant changes to the University's digital landscape.

This presentation will offer you an opportunity to feed into the programme, and provide answers to your questions about it.

Ron Chambers, Kate Livingstone and Abraham Martin will be talking about identifying some best practices for our effective collaboration

It’s been a long time since we’ve seen each other in person and as the pandemic restrictions are easing, we’d like to celebrate the end of the summer with an informal outdoor gathering at Fitzwilliam College Grove and Chapel Lawn.

Afternoon tea style food, individually boxed to include:

• Freshly made white and wholemeal bread finger sandwiches (variety of vegan, vegetarian, fish and meat fillings)
• Meat and vegan sausage rolls
• Fruit and plain scones with clotted cream and strawberry jam (vegan scones with cream can be provided on request)
• Mini choux buns
• Victoria sponge
• Mini tray baked cakes
• Juice

Followed by tea and coffee

An outdoor bar is also available to purchase a selection of soft and alcoholic drinks

The Digital Presence Programme is a five year programme responsible for improving how we provide and support websites and intranets for the University of Cambridge (amongst other things). It's important that departmental and institutional heads are aware of the programme's goals and intentions to make significant changes to the University's digital landscape.

This presentation will offer you an opportunity to feed into the programme, and provide answers to your questions about it.

Learn more about the barriers people face when they read content. We will show you how to write content that’s accessible and do a few practical exercises. Making content accessible, makes it better for everyone.

An informal meeting to meet mentors enrolled on the Mentoring 2021-22 programme.

An informal meeting to meet mentees enrolled on the Mentoring 2021-22 programme.

This energetic learning and networking activity will provide the opportunity to speak to some of UIS’ senior leaders and managers from different disciplines.

UIS mentors involved in the event:

• Ian Leslie - Director
• Carys Hayler - Lead Buiness Analyst
• Steve Riley, Chief Operating Officer
• Anna Langley, Service Manager
• Simon Clarke, Head of Digital Workplace
• Rich Wareham, Principal Software Developer

Updates on UIS's Relationship Management and Portfolio Management

• User Needs, Project Priorities, and Portfolio Developments
• Relationship Management overview
  • interactions, processes, examples
  • Schools, Colleges, NSIs, UAS, et al
• IT Portfolios overview
  • purpose, governance, processes
  • Education, Research, Business Systems, Infrastructure

Join us on Friday 22 October for a whistle-stop tour of common areas of Google Analytics and scenarios its data can help you analyse.

We will focus more on the Universal Analytics interface than Google Analytics 4, as that's the version we believe most people with Google Analytics on University websites are using.

Customised Clouds?

• Amazon presenters will provide an overview of:
  • AWS (Amazon Web Services) workstations
  • various options for virtual workstations

Please note that there is a UIS AWS framework agreement - https://help.uis.cam.ac.uk/service/network-services/hosting-services/AWS

• Hashicorp presenters will provide an overview of:
  • Terraform - https://www.terraform.io
  • Infrastructure-as-Code options
  • enabling portability of servers and workstations

• Framework for University IT Community, sharing information, expertise, support, CPD
  • collaborating with Oxford, Glasgow, Edinburgh (COGEnT)
    • and US universities (Harvard, Yale, Cornell, etc.)
  • possible ‘cloud club’ - in discussions with Amazon, Google, Microsoft
    • potential for shared credits, sandbox, mutual testing (any interest?)

• Reviewing concerns of IT Community, e.g. shared planning and troubleshooting
  • From the archives - particular issues raised by the community - 2019-2021

• TechLink Advisory Group
  • improving collaboration, feedback, communication and sharing

• For Reference: Technology in higher education: defining the strategic leader - joint Jisc and EDUCAUSE report
  • https://www.jisc.ac.uk/reports/technology-in-higher-education-defining-the-strategic-leader#how_to_use

We will show you how to build a content inventory and do a content audit on your website or intranet.

You might be migrating to a new content management system (CMS), or just want to tidy up your site, an inventory and audit reveals gaps and opportunities. It’s the first step to understanding user behaviour and gathering evidence to help you make decisions about your content.

Customised Clouds? - Google Cloud presenters will provide an overview of:

• Google Earth Engine - 20 minutes
  • Review of this new offering, e.g. for researchers and IOT use cases

• Cloud Journey - 20 minutes
  • perspective on evolution and applicability of cloud
  • from "Cloud 1.0" (migrating VMs from on-premise to a public cloud data centre)
  • to Digital Transformation and adoption of cloud native technologies

• Containerisation, Cloud Run & Kubernetes - 20 minutes
  • where, when should you consider it, what are the benefits?

• Review of Google Cloud Research Credits and Teaching/Learning Credits - 10 minutes
  • potential applicability at the University

• Open Discussion, Q & A, Contingency - 15 minutes

For reference: Hands on guide to Google Cloud - https://techdesign.uis.cam.ac.uk/en/latest/guidance/hands-on-google-cloud

What is the Search Inside Yourself programme?

The Search Inside Yourself (SIY) programme is a popular immersive leadership programme born in Google and based on Emotional Intelligence, Neuroscience and Mindfulness. SIY will teach emotional intelligence skills that lead to sustained peak performance, strong collaboration, and effective leadership.

The mindfulness and emotional intelligence skills you'll learn will help you:

Experience greater well-being, resilience and stress management Improve performance, collaboration and empathy Increase effectiveness and decision-making capacity Cultivate innovative, creative thinking Build more effective relationships

In Writing for the web part 1 we looked at how people read online and what this means for our content.

In part 2 we’ll focus on how to write content that meets your audience’s goals.

Taking a user-centred approach will help you to decide what words to use and what information is important. We’ll also show you how you can test your content to ensure your users understand it.

An informal meeting to meet mentees enrolled on the Mentoring 2021-22 programme.

An informal meeting to meet mentors enrolled on the Mentoring 2021-22 programme.

We are offering our new starters to be involved in a virtual speed mentoring event. This energetic learning and networking activity will provide the opportunity to speak to some of UIS’ senior leaders and managers from different disciplines.

UIS mentors involved in the event:

• Ian Leslie - Director
• Mark Rowland- Head of Delivery Management Office
• Simon Redhead- Systems Development Manager
• Beata Oxlade, Business Systems Team Lead
• Wojciech J. Turek, Head of Research Computing Platforms
• Bob Franklin, Infrastructure Operations Manager (Networks)

Join our User Researchers who will get you thinking about understanding audiences and how users navigate your digital content.

A workshop session exclusively for UIS colleagues who have been nominated to be a 'buddy' to support new joiners to the organisation.