I attended the Friday of ALT-C today and I’m glad I did, it was a very interesting and fun day. Some brief highlights from me…. I learned a new term today which I thought was really poignant – ‘lifeload’ – sum of all pressures a student has in their life …

Ada Lovelace Day was on the 14th of October this year.  We’ve been celebrating her day here in IS for a decade now (long before I joined IS) and this year, like the last 2 years, I was on the organising team for our celebration.  This year we had an …

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. For Ada Lovelace Day 2025, Jackie, Magda and Stewart created the ‘Interactive Women in STEM tour’ game for everyone to play.

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes. For Ada Lovelace Day 2025 I created a colouring-in illustration of Moira Dunbar (1918-1999), the pioneering Scottish-Canadian glaciologist and Arctic sea-ice researcher.

Everyone thinks project management is about Gantt charts, RAG statuses, and risk logs. And yes, those are part of the toolkit. But what really drives projects are the people. Let me walk you through what it is like to manage projects at LTW. The day starts with quiet focus, with a quick pause to admire […]

In many ways the summer 2025 project of upgrading Moodle from 4.3.3 to 4.5.1 is an enjoyable one for the teams involved: it was the final upgrade of the long standing, and one of our favourite virtual learning environments (VLEs); the Apps team had upgraded the data server hardware and software in the past year […]

This post will be about the upgrade process and the experience I had when moved our Laravel apps from Ease to EntraID.   Introduction The University of Edinburg has made a decision to move away from EASE (Cosign) SSO users authentication to EntraID (Azure – Microsoft). This meant to us that all the applications we […]

I don’t really understand how we got to the end of August (well, nearly) already. It feels like minutes ago we were welcoming the summer in with our new intern cohort and today is the day that most of our summer internships finish. I can’t tell you how much I …

The Interactive Content team used ThingLink to create interactive learning materials for two Careers Services projects: ‘Skills For Success Framework’ and ‘Riding the Wave’. They chose ThingLink for its ability to add interactivity to graphics and its ease of embedding into EdWeb. The team collaborated with the Graphics Design service to create engaging and accessible content using ThingLink’s scenes and tags features.

Ok, well not totally meaningless. But it certainly isn’t always the untouchable source of truth that is often perceived to be. My name is Otis Laundon, and throughout my Green Web Platforms internship I have focused so much on trying to find data. Data on energy usage, energy grid carbon intensity, and equipment manufacturing, to […]