Last updated: 3rd July 2024

On this page

• When MyBristol is closing
• Where you can find things after MyBristol has closed
• What you should do before MyBristol closes
• About MyBristol
• Why MyBristol is closing
• Services which are not currently available elsewhere

When MyBristol is closing

We will close MyBristol to all users on 31 July 2024.

Where you can find things after MyBristol has closed

For students

Almost everything you can do on MyBristol can already be accessed from bristol.ac.uk/students or the University of Bristol app (Apple App store | Google Play store | web version)

• Blackboard for your course, your feedback and Replay
• Pay your fees
• See your financial statement including stipend payments and any debts you may owe
• See your assessments, marks and results
• See your emails
• See your calendar, including your teaching timetable
• Use Microsoft 365 apps like Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneDrive
• Search the library catalogue for books or journals
• Log into your library account
• Get IT support
• Find out more about our research
• Find your school or faculty website
• Update your contact details
• Update other personal information, like your legal name or gender identity
• Complete your Annual Progress Monitoring (APM) review if you're a postgraduate research student. You'll also get an email when it's time to start your APM. 

You can also see your teaching timetable in:

• University of Bristol app - download the app from the Apple App store or Google Play store or see it in a web browser
• Outlook - your teaching timetable is synchronised each day into your Outlook calendar

For staff

If you're a member of staff, you'll find everything you need linked from the bristol.ac.uk/staff site or the staff intranet.

This includes key systems such as Blackboard, eVision, My Students, Pure, MyERP, Desk booking and Office 365 apps (Outlook, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, OneDrive).

You can also see students' teaching timetables in:

• Outlook - you can view another person's calendar using the "Add calendar" option. You can only see free/busy periods for a student's calendar.  
• Timetable Reports - this shows the full timetable for students in your school.

We're working on a way to replicate MyBristol's "impersonate user" function which allows staff to view the details of an individual students' teaching timetable. More information will be added soon.

What should I do before MyBristol closes?

Before it closes, users of MyBristol should take some time to do the following things:

• Use the links above to see the alternative ways of getting to the same information that MyBristol shows you
• Create a bookmark or favourite in your preferred browser for new links you haven't used before so you can get back to them easily in future
• Report any problems or errors you experience to the IT Service Desk, who will be happy to help you solve the problem.

Services which are not currently available elsewhere

View your printer credits

MyBristol is one of two places where you can see how much money you have available for printing.

We'll be moving this to stand-alone page which you can access through the main university website. This is currently in development and will be available before MyBristol closes. 

You can already check your credit amount by logging into your account on any printer and make a payment for print credits via the online payment system.

School and faculty teams can still purchase bulk credit in the normal way, through the IT Service Desk.

About MyBristol

MyBristol is a portal which gives you access to some university services such as email, calendar and Blackboard and provides one way to see information like exam results, marks and student fees.

Much of its content is already accessible from other places and you don’t need to go through MyBristol to get to it.

Why MyBristol is closing

• You've told us you want to use fewer systems to do the things you need to do and you want clearer ways to find information.
• We also know that the way you engage with our digital services has changed since the portal was first launched, with the introduction of the University of Bristol app and improved content on the Current students section of the website.
• In the last staff communications survey, 70% of staff told us they never found MyBristol useful.
• We know some of you still value the portal. However, it has not been updated for several years and some of its content, how it looks and some of the integrations into other systems are now out of date.
• Use of MyBristol has declined significantly in the past few years, so it now only gets 40% of the hits it got in the 2017/18 academic year when usage was at its peak.

Because of this, we have decided to divert time and resources away from the service.

Only MyBristol is closing

Services which MyBristol links to - eVision, My Students and Student Info - are not closing. You can still access and use them as normal after 31 July 2024.