The majority of University departments are likely to have many (if not all) staff working off-site, including working from home (WFH). This guide aims to provide some useful information to help you get the most out of working remotely.

If you have a personal computer (desktop or laptop) at home, please take a look at our existing Guide to Working from Home for a comprehensive guide to accessing your email, files etc.

Please do continue to read this document however, as it provides some additional information about physically connecting your equipment, additional peripherals (headset, webcam) you may need, etc.

You may instead have a departmental computer previously set-up for use off-site, which should continue to work but may benefit from some of the advice given below. You may also be looking to take your work computer home, however we advise against this where possible, as this requires a change to the computers setup that we may not be able to assist with at this time - the CSCS Team are no longer receiving visitors or performing on site visits for the foreseeable future.

If you have a laptop (personal or departmental) then you may be used to taking this home, however you may benefit from making some changes to your setup going forward. For example, you may be using the built-in display and, while this may be functional for a short period of time, if you are likely to be working from home for weeks (or months), you may benefit from using a larger screen.

Connecting your computer to a display

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Microsoft Teams

The University is responding to this by accelerating the launch of a product called Microsoft Teams, which was released by the University Information Services (UIS) on 18th March 2020.

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