Google Apps for education is a free suite of programs provided by Google to support universities, colleges, and schools. They include: 1. Google Mail (Gmail) 2. Google Drive (Google Docs, Google Slides, Google Sheets) 3. Google Sites 4. Google Groups 5. Google Calendar 6. Google Keep 7. Google Forms Google Apps can be…
Do you ever feel like you’ve missed out on an important piece of information about your course, such as a room change for a seminar, or a reminder about a submitting a piece of coursework? Now that many of us have smartphones or tablets, with constant access to University emails through the SHUgo app, you’d…
Whether you’ve been at Sheffield Hallam for a year or two, or have only just got through your first few weeks at uni, hopefully by now you’ve worked out how to access your emails through shuspace. The SHU email system is powered by Google, which means you can also benefit from some other tools created…
Unfortunately there have been intermittent problems with shuspace for the past few days now – it was down for a long period on Wednesday and Friday, and this seems to be the case this morning. As the email to all students states, IS&T at SHU are doing all they can to resume normal service and…
By now you’ve hopefully worked out how to access your Timetable in shuspace (if not, look for the Timetables channel next to your list of Blackboard sites in the MySHU tab). But IS&T at Sheffield Hallam have come up with a feature that will hopefully let you integrate it more effectively into your schedule, by…
After feedback from students, Sheffield Hallam will now send out advanced reminders informing you when your books are due back BEFORE they start incurring fines. From the start of 2nd semester we will be trialling this new service. To help ensure you don’t incur fines we will email you: Two days in advance of the…
We’ve heard that some students have been having trouble emailing tutors directly from shuspace. When you click on the link, for example joe.bloggs@shu.ac.uk it will automatically try to open up Microsoft Outlook to use as an email client. This is because all staff use Outlook rather than Google Mail and because of this, an error…
Spam e-mails are unsolicited messages sent to a large number of recipients. A spam e-mail may advertise products or services, ask you for information, contain malware and so on. I’m receiving spam but I never gave my address out? A spammer doesn’t need to know your e-mail address to send you spam. They may have…
A blog can be a valuable source of information. Blog content can change often, and so you may find yourself checking for updates on a regular basis. If you follow several blogs then this process can become very time consuming. One solution that we have discussed before is to use the blog’s RSS feed. Another…
Sharing large files, such as high definition video, can be quite difficult. Your homespace can only be accessed by you, e-mail is better suited for smaller files and USB drives aren’t ideal if you’re not in the same location as the recipient. The SHU Dropbox Service is an alternative way to temporarily share files larger…