The Student Records System (SITS) will be unavailable from 6pm on Tuesday 15th November to 4pm on Thursday 17th November.

This is to allow IT to upgrade the system so that it correctly accepts a wider range of characters (e.g. accented letters). If you usually use this service, you’ll still be able to access an un-editable version of the application during this time.

If you are going to be away from the campus over the easter break, IT Services has a range of Collaborative Tools which can be used to gain access to files, email and attend meetings.

Anyone who wants to attend is welcome to drop in at any time between 9am and 4:30pm from Monday 18th to Thursday 21 July. Location CMR.02 University House.

There will be refreshments available.

The Student Records System (SITS) will be upgraded during the Autumn 2011 term to enable it to store data in a Unicode format. This change will allow the system to store extended characters such as accents and will ensure that Warwick has the ability to store data such as names and addresses correctly. The rescheduled upgrade dates have now been fixed as 16th-18th November.

The Student Records System (SITS) will be upgraded during 2011 to enable it to store data in a Unicode format. This change will allow the system to store extended characters such as accents and will ensure that Warwick has the ability to store data such as names and addresses correctly. The upgrade was initially expected to take place in June 2011, but has now been postponed until the Autumn term 2011.

The "Production" and “Archive” Student Records Systems (also known as SITS) will be unavailable for the period below, in order to apply regular operating system maintenance:-

The live (PROD) Student Records service will be taken offline at 00:30 on Thursday 5th May and will remain offline until 17:30 on the same day. Please note that during this time, a “read only” version of the live SITS:Vision application (ROSA) will be available to staff, accessible via the NAL.

The archive (KEEP) Student Records Services will be taken offline for the same period.

IT Services have worked with the Student Admissions & Recruitment Office to improve the efficiency of processing supporting documents for postgraduate admissions with the introduction of a new application for managing the supporting documents submitted by applicants. The application has been live for several months. The application has processed 36480 documents for just over 13000 applications since it went live in November last year. The average processing time per document has decreased from 2.30 mins under the previous, semi-manual process to just a few seconds. This represents a significant saving in staff time and means the documents are available to approvers much earlier in the approval process.

If you are going to be away from the campus over Easter, IT Services has a range of Collaborative Tools which can be used to gain access to files, email and attend meetings.

The Student Records System (SITS) will be upgraded during 2011 to enable it to store data in a Unicode format.  This change will allow the system to store extended characters such as accents and will ensure that Warwick has the ability to store data such as names and addresses correctly.  The upgrade is expected to take place during a 3 day period between 16th May 2011 and 10th June 2011.

If you are responsible for any system or process which interfaces with SITS, you will be contacted by the project team in the next couple of weeks so that we can discuss provisions for testing these interfaces with the new format.  If you have responsibility for an interfacing process or system and have not heard from us by 7th March 2011, please email the project team at: SITS dot Unicode at warwick dot ac dot uk 

Further information about the project is available online and any questions may be directed to the project team via the email link on that page.

In order to improve the performance and resilience of the business process supported by the Business Process Management (BPM) application, the underlying hardware is scheduled to be replaced on the 21st and 22nd February 2011.

During this time the following automated business processes will be unavailable:-

• Postgraduate applications and approvals
• Graduate School scholarship applications (closed) and nominations
• Course Transfers
• Research Development Fund applications
• IT Services Change management (Request For Change)

Apologies for any inconvenience this work will cause you or your customers.