Time to kick back and relax? Not with Freshers on the horizon...

June 2019 - Not that we want to worry anyone but you have started to plan for Freshers, haven't you? Your student members might be tripping off soon to enjoy a long summer break but we know that you'll just be getting started on plans for the busiest time of year. So we're pleased to bring you details of summer training sessions timed to get your team ready with a skills refresh and top tips to make the next few months go smoothly.

We've also welcomed another new client to the MSL family and are very pleased to share the Edinburgh University Sports' Union success story. We're always on the look out for good news and interesting projects to share with our community - if you've been working on something you're expecially proud of and want to shout about it, let us know!

We look forward to speaking to you soon,

The MSL Team

Royal College of Art Students' Union joins the MSL community 

Summer training: MSL Volunteering & Fresher prep web briefings in July

Read about Edinburgh University Sports' Union achievements with the MSL System

MSL programme of improvements: server upgrades

MSL achieves PCI DSS compliance for another year

RCA Students' Union revamps its digital presence with help from MSL 

We were focused on ensuring the platform we chose for powering the new RCASU website was modern, robust and could scale to our ever-increasing student population across all sites

- Royal College of Art Students’ Union. Read the news in full.

Join us next month to refresh your MSL System skills 

The first in our summer series of web training sessions (8th-11th July) will take you through the features of MSL Volunteering. These sessions will be ideal for new members of the team, staff who need a refresher and anyone interested in seeing how MSL Volunteering can support their student opportunities programme. Register your interest in attending the Volunteering sessions - daily agendas will be released shortly.

The second in the series (22nd-26th July) has been timed to refresh your team's knowledge as you prepare for Freshers. Register your interest in attending the Freshers prep sessions - daily agendas will be released shortly.

90% increase in non-BUCS sports participation? Read how EUSU did it...  

The MSL System has professionalised how we as an organisation operate as a whole. Students experience a better service from their clubs, and committee members can carry out their roles more efficiently and comfortable in the knowledge that all their club finances and data is being well managed

- Edinburgh University Sports’ Union. Read the case study.

Server upgrades offer increased performance and security

As part of MSL's programme of continuous development and improvements to the MSL System® and its underlying infrastructure, we are pleased to notify you that your MSL site will shortly be migrated to newly installed servers, which will offer overall increased performance and security. We need to agree with you a date and time for the migration after which the only action required by you is to update the IP address on your DNS ‘A’ records. If you haven't aleady done so, please contact us with your prefered date and time to start the migration process.

MSL passes rigorous PCI DSS compliance validation

We are pleased to inform you that MSL has again successfully passed the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. The PCI Data Security Standard is mandated by credit card brands and administered by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council. The standard was created to increase controls around cardholder data to reduce credit card fraud. Our certification demonstrates MSL's commitment to providing clients with a safe and secure environment for commercial operations, events teams and clubs and societies to do business. If you have any questions about our PCI compliance processes, please contact us.