KU Intranet X Google: We have upgraded the KU Intranet ecosystem to now use Kent Union Google accounts instead. If you have any issues, please contact IT below.
123 Reg
Many of the website domains we own and all of our hosting is centralised here.
ALF
Each year the University of Kent allocates an amount of money for the Access to Learning Fund (ALF). This enables us to support students who are struggling financially.
Accessibility Common Sentences
To increase the awareness of accessibility at our events, we're aiming to better communicate with visitors ahead of time what they can expect.
Accessible Colour Generator
Enter a foreground and background colour combination to test the contrast against WCAG AA or AAA guidelines. Suggests accessible combinations if they do not contrast enough.
Accessible Colours
Check colour contrast with this checker. If your foreground/background combination does not meet the guidelines, it will give you the closest accessible combination.
Active Campaign
ActiveCampaign is a cloud software platform we use for email marketing, email communications and automation.
Active Campaign: Managing contacts
A short user guide on how to manage contacts within Active Campaign, such as creating a new contact, managing custom fields and subscribing them to a list.
Active Campaign: SU Network Template
A breakdown of "saved modules" for the SU Network template in Active Campaign.
Active Campaign: Sending a campaign
A comprehensive user guide on how to send a campaign through Active Campaign using the new templates
Active Campaign: Spam terms
Every email marketer’s worst nightmare: the spam folder. Nearly one in five emails get caught by a spam filter and sent to the spam folder. This article focuses on the use of certain words and phrases that can be a red flag, aka spam trigger words.
Adobe Acrobat Reader
Acrobat Reader is free and continues to offer the industry's most reliable experience for viewing and interacting with PDFs. ADMIN access required
Adobe Admin Portal
Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner / Removal Tool
The Adobe Creative Cloud Cleaner tool is intended for advanced computer users and can fix many common problems (such as removing old Adobe software, cleaning corrupt installation files, and fixing your host files to establish a connection with Adobe servers). ADMIN Access Required
Adobe Stock
Download the best royalty free images from Adobe Stock, including photos, vectors, and illustrations.
Amazon AWS
Large amounts of online cloud storage in the knassets bucket.
Appendix Finance
Appendix Student
Apple Business Manager
Asset Management
Authenticator (MFA) Settings
A tool to check which of your devices are enabled with Microsoft Authenticator. You will need this tool if you get a new phone and need to add, remove, or reset which devices can authenticate your account.
Banner
Online Ordering for Banner Customers
Beds SU
Beds SU: Offers
Blackbullion
Blackbullion are on a mission to help young people develop financial skills for life and believe investing in themselves, by growing their knowledge and skills, is one of the most powerful ways to impact their future.
Bookings Admin Portal
Brand guidelines
The Kent Union brand is important to protect as it represents our style, our personality and our identity. In order to have a consistent look and identity across all platforms, Marketing have produced these guidelines.
Bulk Resize Photo
This incredible and free tool allows huge amounts of images to be resized and compressed at once, to parameters you can set.
Bupa Claim Link
CSR Wordpress
Campaign URL Builder
This tool allows you to easily add campaign parameters to URLs so you can measure Custom Campaigns.
Campus Map
Canterbury Varsity
Canva
Canva is an online design and publishing tool with pre-prepared on-brand templates or a blank canvas to design on.
Caseworker Connect
Central Calendar
Charity Commission
The Charity Commission registers and regulates charities in England and Wales, to ensure that the public can support charities with confidence.
Cloudflare
Management of SSL certificates, the security for websites that allows for HTTPS connections. SU Network, Canterbury Varsity, KU Intranet, KU Praise and more.
Companies House
Companies House is the executive agency of the British Government that maintains the register of companies, employs the company registrars and is responsible for incorporating all forms of companies in the United Kingdom.
Connect Childcare Installer
Create a support ticket
Need support from another department? Create and submit a ticket through this portal.
Credit Framework
Delve
A tool the provides simple, linear, and instant organization charts across the organization, pulled from our Outlook and Teams data. Find out details about the staff and teams at Kent Union and how you collaborate.
Divisional Reps
Reps act as the link between students, the union and the university. They are volunteer representatives that are the first port of call for students suggestions, comments or queries about the academic experience.
Dummy Images
A placeholder image API that creates an image source of any dimensions or colours.
Enterprise Business
Excalidraw
A versatile flowchart and napkin sketch platform with drag and drop shapes, arrows and text elements. Can create quick, neat layouts that are exportable in a number of formats.
Facebook
Facebook Sharing Debugger
You can use the Sharing Debugger to see the information that is used when your website content is shared on Facebook, Messenger and other places. Great for checking updates to meta descriptions, images and page titles are pulling through.
Financial Requirement Caseworker Guidance
FireShot Webpage Screenshotter
Take full webpage screenshots. Capture, edit and save them in a variety of formats.
Font Awesome
Free icon library for web use.
Global Protect Download
A link to download the Global Protect VPN software from the University Portal vox.kent.ac.uk
Google Admin Console
Google Analytics
Tracking engagement across all Kent Union operated domains.
Google Business Profile
Control pins on Google Maps, including opening times, website links, contact information and reviews.
Google Lighthouse
Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the performance, quality, and correctness of web apps. This Chrome extension allows Performance, Accessibility, Best Practice and SEO checks to be carried out at a click in your browser.
Google Search Console
Google Search Console is a free service offered by Google that helps you monitor, maintain, and troubleshoot your site's presence in Google Search results.
Google Shared Drives
HMRC
The UK's tax, payments and customs authority,
Health and Safety Reporting Tool
HelloKent
The dedicated Welcome website introduced in 2022. Home of our HelloKent brand, KPASS and welcome events.
Helpdesk Agent Login
This area is for staff to manage and respond to support tickets.
Herts SU
Herts SU: Offers
How to install the SafeZone app
SafeZone is a free and simple-to-use app for students and staff. It's designed to help you summon first-aid, security or safety assistance via your mobile phone and now it is also available on computers! This guide explains how to install the app on your computer.
ICO
The Information Commissioner's Office is a non-departmental public body which reports directly to the Parliament of the United Kingdom and is sponsored by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Image Compressor
Compress a variety of image formats (JPG / PNG etc) to save file size. Especially useful for web!
Industrial Action - Information for Students
Information Services Intranet
This community site is for all University of Kent staff to provide self - help advice in using IT and library services, and more details about what Information Services provides.
Instagram
Jamf Account
Jamf Pro
Jamf Protect
KU Praise
As a peer-to-peer recognition tool, KU Praise enables you to send quick but meaningful commendations directly to each other, whilst simultaneously creating a personal webpage of received positivity to look back on.
KU Wiki
An ever growing collection of user guides and FAQs for all of Kent Union, all in one place.
Kent Clothing
Kent IT Account Password Reset
Use this link to reset your Kent IT account password. This is your password to login to Windows, email, and Eduroam.
Kent IT Service Status
Kent Tech
Kent Tech offers sound, lighting and stage hire at very reasonable prices. We are also a consultancy service to societies, bars, individuals and other groups/organisations on and off campus here at UKC.
Kent Tech Dashboard
Kent Union
Kent Union website, home of Student Voice, Activities, Jobshop, Advice and more.
Kent Union Networks
Kent Union Parliament
Kent Union Parliament is the highest student-led decision-making body within Kent Union.
Kent Union Printers
Kent Union: Offers
Konica Minolta Dashboard
The dashboard to order printer consumables and request service.
LastPass Password Manager
LastPass is a cloud-based password manager that stores your login information online in a secure database.
Lead Kent: Rules and Regulations
LightKey Training Resources
A tutorial with videos to help walk you through the basics of how to use and work with LightKey.
Link Live
LinkedIn Learning
MicroStrategy
Generate reports for our Co-op stores
Microsoft 365 Workspaces
Tools to setup Teams, Sharepoint Sites, and Bookings Calendar
Microsoft Support and Recovery Assistant (SARA)
SaRA is a desktop client that enables you to troubleshoot, diagnose, and fix many issues with Office 365 & Teams
NCVO
The National Council for Voluntary Organisations is the umbrella body for the voluntary and community sector in England.
NHAS
NHAS is delivered by Shelter and provides FREE expert advice, training and support to professionals working in local authorities, voluntary advice agencies and public authorities in England.
NUS
The National Union of Students is a confederation of student unions in the United Kingdom. Around 600 student unions are affiliated, accounting for more than 95% of all higher and further education unions in the UK
NUS Connect
Natwest Bankline
Notion
Oaks Nursery Salary Sacrifice
SharePoint site for Nursery Salary Sacrifice
Office for Mac Download
Downloadable Office Packages for Mac
Official student documents requests
Resources for Student Status Letters, Council Tax Exemption etc
Onelan CMS (onsite only)
Open Multiple URLs
Paste in a list of URLs to open them all up at once. Advised to tick "do not load tabs until selected" though! Great for multitasking or repetitive macro tasks.
PageSpeed Insights
PageSpeed Insights (PSI) reports on the user experience of a page on both mobile and desktop devices, and provides suggestions on how that page may be improved.
Parking Permit
Perks at Work (Staff Discount Platform)
Perks at Work is an exclusive platform for university staff that helps you save money with discounts, earn WOWpoints and access free online classes. Using Perks at Work gives you access to 30,000+ employee discounts across 20 categories, ranging from food and groceries, to travel, fitness and more.
Pexels
Free stock photos, royalty free images & videos
PicMonkey
On-brand templates that can be modified in your browser using a simple drag-and-drop style editor.
Planner by Microsoft (Teams add-on)
Planner enables users and teams to create plans, assemble and assign tasks, share files, communicate and collaborate with other users, and receive progress updates via various means.
Policies and Procedures
Practitioners
QR Code Generator
A free QR code generator that produces a variety of formats. I would suggest downloading as 1000x1000 and 0 border, as whichever format you need. PNG for transparency, JPG for black/white, SVG/EPS for vector formats.
Resource Link
Revo Uninstaller
Standalone windows tool to uninstall software ADMIN access required
Rutherford Dining Hall
Rutherford Dining Hall is home of the £3 meals for students. This website has all the details as well as the weekly menu.
SALTO Card Access (onsite & firewall rules rqd)
SU Network
SU Network is an advertising agency specialising in the student market. To clients, we offer marketing and sponsorship opportunities across multiple university campuses; to Students’ Unions, we offer Business Development and Finance support services, and the opportunity to grow and develop the above sales channels.
SU Network Booking Form (Jotform)
SU Network: Client Booking Form
SUMS
Our Students' Union Management System is core to many departments, from Activity Management to Website, from the App to Events.
Shared Mailbox Management App
A streamlined system is designed to make managing your shared mailboxes easier and more efficient
Shelter
Shopify
Snap Engage
Snap Engage Admin
Software for Staff
A list of software provided / recommended by the university. Also includes a link to download and install the latest version of Office 365 for free to your device.
Speedtest
Useful tool to diagnose speed / connection issues whilst working from home (WFH)
Staff Connect
To view payslips, P60s and book annual leave.
Staff Discounts
A range of staff discounts for university staff that KU staff can use. Including Eurotunnel, Marlowe & Gulbenkian Theatres, and Blackwell's Canterbury Campus shop.
Staff ID Card Request
Use this form to apply for a new or replacement card. You will need to upload a photo and set the authoriser as Lloyd Wilson.
Staff Savvy
Student Complaints
Student Group Allocations
Up to date information of our student groups, and the co-ordinators that look after them.
Student Misconduct
Student Orders
Student and Child Student Guidance
Sussex Students' Union
Sussex Students' Union: Offers
Sympa
Synology 2 Admin (onsite only)
The admin portal to the backup Synology NAS drive
Synology Admin (onsite only)
The admin portal to Synology NAS used by marketing etc
Tab Save
One-click download for files from open tabs, lists of URLs, or PDFs straight from the browser.
Target Connect
Teamviewer Account
Customer portal used to manage our account
Teamviewer Admin Portal
Management console, used to manage users, groups, and installers. Also can be used as a Web client for TeamViewer access.
Teamviewer Remote Support Download
Use this link if IT need to dial into your computer to support you. Run the program that downloads and then click allow to enable access
The Venue
A new website for The Venue, to have its own space to promote events to the public.
TikTok
Tone Indicators Guide
A tone indicator or tone tag is a symbol attached to a sentence or message sent in a textual form, such as over the internet, to explicitly state the intonation or intent of the message, especially when it may be otherwise ambiguous. This page helps explain what they are, why you should use them, and how to use them!
Transparent Tile Textures
A website listing hundreds of texture files, ideal for web or graphics as they tile and are tiny file sizes.
Tuition Fee Refunds
Twinkl
The trusted home of teacher-created planning and assessment materials and teaching resources! Perfect for inside and outside the classroom.
UKCISA
University Assurance & Data Protection
The Assurance and Data Protection team process information rights requests, report data breaches and support staff with advice, training, standards documents and assessments.
University of East Anglia Students' Union (UEA SU)
University of Surrey Students' Union (USSU): Offers
University of Sussex Students' Union (USSU)
Unix Time Stamp Generator
A useful little tool for getting the exact time in Unix, for cache-busting and report making.
VPN access request form
Use this form to request VPN access to allow access to S: drive and Synology etc. Sign in with your Kent username and password. Then download the Global Protect VPN software to connect
Venue Networking
Visa Spreadsheet
HR document for Tier 4 Student Staff - Access Required
WCAG Quick Reference List
A customizable quick reference to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2 requirements (success criteria) and techniques.
WinDirStat
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and clean-up tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows. It's a useful tool for finding what is taking up storage space on a machine. ADMIN access required
Wonkhe
Wonkhe is home of the UK higher education debate.
Woody's Kent Tech Kit
Word Utilities
A collection of useful utilities for Word (albeit some are quick old and have now been built in to Office 365) Helpful for mail merges, batch operations and conversions
WorldPay Compliance Portal
Zettle
Zettle & iPad Log
Zoho CRM
iPlicit Finance System
Access to the iPlicit Finance System for finance functions including raising purchase orders or expense claims.
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