IT Services Pop-Up: Start of Year Feedback
Join us for a chat and share your Start of Year experience, feedback, concerns, questions and suggestions with our friendly team of IT experts!

News, information and events for your Manchester student life

Join us for a chat and share your Start of Year experience, feedback, concerns, questions and suggestions with our friendly team of IT experts!

The latest updates on connectivity issues with some systems and services, which started on Saturday 29 November and are ongoing.

From Monday 24 November, the IT in-person support desk in the Kilburn Building will be temporarily re-located to the ground floor of Main Library while building works take place.

We’re doing some major upgrades to the University’s network over November. This means there will be short planned periods where WiFi, wired connections, and some key systems might briefly go offline.

My Manchester for Students are currently experiencing intermittent availability. IT Services are investigating the issue as a priority. We’ll provide updates as soon as we know more.

Some students may have experienced problems using SEAtS (our engagement and attendance app) this week. IT Services are investigating these issues.

Canvas is now live, replacing Blackboard as the place you’ll find your course materials, submit work, and connect with your studies online – anytime and anywhere.

Essential work is scheduled to take place at 8am to Midday Saturday, 6 September. It is not anticipated that students will experience disruption during this time, but should be aware that this will be an “at risk” period.

An update on IT services and how to check the latest status of systems.

The Campus Solutions Student System will be unavailable for five hours from 1pm to 6pm on Friday, 8 August 2025, so make sure you’ve selected your course units before then – or you can log back on afterwards to continue.

From September, you’ll be able to access online support services. In the meantime, help is always available from your faculty’s eLearning team and through the helpful guidance in the Canvas Student Guide.

We have experienced an issue affecting the following services: My Manchester, Blackboard – this issue is now resolved.

IT Services will be performing planned maintenance on the Campus Solutions student system, which means it will be unavailable from 3pm on Friday 11 April, to 12noon on Monday 14 April, 2025.

The new feature provides all students and researchers with links to university-wide help and support, as well as tailored support and guidance relevant to your programme of study or research.

This week, the newest financial features are available for you to access on My Manchester. My Financials, My Bank and Applicant Finance bring a number of self-serve features – find out more.