The corporate student records system SITS:Vision (known locally as SI) which we use for all student and curriculum records management is due to be upgraded as part of the annual upgrade cycle. Tribal, the system developers, release upgrades twice a year, but to reduce the impact on SHU staff and students we combine the upgrades and implement them both around Easter each year. This process is managed by the Registry Services Student Systems and Records, Corporate Systems Student Management and IS&T Programme Office teams.
The SI system and web interface, My Student Record (MSR) will not be available to staff or students from Friday 27 March to Sunday 29 March (inclusive) while the upgrade from version 8.7.0 through 8.7.1 to 8.8.0 takes place. We expect the system to be available again by noon on Monday 30 March (if it’s earlier we will email SI users to let them know). The system is also scheduled to be unavailable on Saturday 21 March to allow for pre-upgrade preparation work to be done. The timescales for the upgrade are summarised below:
Saturday 21 March 2015: Pre-upgrade preparation work
Friday 27 to Sunday 29th March 2015: SI/MSR Upgrade to version 8.8.0
Monday 30 March 2015: SI/MSR available again from 12 noon.
All students and staff with an enabled SI account will be notified of the system downtime by email and messages will also be put on the MSR/shuspace login pages and University TV screens/screensavers, prior to and during the upgrade. The Registry Services SI Help team who provide support for student systems and process related enquiries will use the SI Incident Blog to keep SI users informed of progress during the upgrade.
We will remind you again nearer the time but in the meantime if you have any questions, please email the SI Help team on ! SI Help or telephone x 4475.