Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Canvas have apologised for the trouble they caused. Always exciting to see learning technology in the news Canvas hack: Company pays criminals to delete students’ stolen data – BBC News We wave goodbye to Emily, our Captioning Consultant intern from Informatics, who has been seduced away […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. Well done to all our newly qualified Change Mangers and well done to everyone who made it through two days of Power BI training. Congratulations to Robert for being shortlisted in the e-Assessment Awards 2026 (the Best Practitioner of the Year Individual). Thank you to […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. Happy May Day morning. I trust you have all been up Arthurs Seat this morning washing your face in the dew. While the weather has been lovely I have appreciated seeing you all together in Forrest Hill Drill Hall. I hope you are managing to […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. Thank you to everyone who helped in managing the major internet outage incident on Thursday. It was ‘specially timed to give Myles a scare as he takes over as interim Head of DLAM from the start of May. You will have seen the news that […]

Dear All,   Thank you for your work this week. This week we welcome back Mary, but prepare to say goodbye to Karen, one of our section heads, who after 20+ years at Edinburgh University has finally had enough of us and is moving on. It’s a tough time to be a karen, but Our […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Congratulations to Web Governance Admin Intern, Angelina Lai who is going full time for May-Sep 2026 and will experiment with AI & Accessibility and manage the web registry. Angelina will also work with our incoming (soon to be named) Web Registry intern over the summer to […]

  Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Welcome to Alice Raymond who joined the online learning marketing team this week as Digital Engagement Officer. She will be focusing on marketing our MOOCs as well as promoting the whole online learning portfolio via social media and other communications channels. Alice joins us from […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. We waved goodbye to Tess and her role will be out to internal advert imminently. The students have been occupying themselves finding places to occupy, and the union pickets will be flying and landing around campus next week, so make sure you have a real-time plan […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Congratulations to Emma, and to the ELM team on winning national UCISA awards! We should aim to either win or be shortlisted for one of these each year. We are currently in a 3-year streak. Early next week we sadly wave goodbye to Tess Higgins who […]

Dear All, Thank you for your work this week. Apparently today is Employee Appreciation Day Employee Appreciation Day | Awareness Days But I hope you know that Every Day in LTW is Employee Appreciation Day. Do take advantage of your 15% staff discount for visits to the light show at McEwan Hall. I look forward […]