5-8 December 2025: New look for Portico after December upgrade

The next SITS/Portico upgrade to version 11 will begin at 5pm on Friday 5 December. Portico and associated services, such as online payments, UCL Select and the Applicant Portal will be unavailable during this time. Access to Portico is expected to be restored from 10am on Monday 8 December. Every effort will be made to keep the outage to a minimum.

Following the upgrade, Portico eVision will have a new look but will continue to function as it does today. The most notable change will be to the navigation structure – the horizontal navigation bar at the top of the screen will be replaced by a vertical left-hand menu which can be collapsed to increase screen space.

Another change for users familiar with Portico wild cards (*) will be the need to prefix the wild card with an upward arrow (ie ^*) in order for it to be interpreted correctly. Further guidance on these changes will be made available prior to the upgrade.

Over the next few weeks, the new version of SITS will go through extensive testing to ensure the processes and functions you currently use in Portico will continue to operate as expected. This includes testing of services that take data from Portico, such as Moodle and the timetabling system (CMIS).

Please share this information with your colleagues to help with planning around this down time. Advance notice of this interruption of service will be placed on the Portico login screen and communicated to staff and students via various channels.

Contact email for further information: isd.sitsmodernisation@ucl.ac.uk