• Coming soon: DLF meeting on Thursday 29 November, Dalhousie 1G06; 14.00-16.00 hrs

    We’re looking forward to welcoming you to the next DLF meeting, when we’ll be discussing: (1) Student engagement online: how we do it and how we could do it better (2) Responsibility of learners for their own learning (3) Adviser of studies handbook  Hope to see you there! Aileen

  • Dev Diaries #4: New Features

    Welcome to the fourth post in our Dev Diaries series. Today i want to introduce Blackboard Ally, a new accessibility tool for My Dundee that we’re planning to introduce next summer. I also want to highlight a few new features that will be introduced as part of the upcoming upgrade….

  • My Dundee Upgrade: Change of Dates (student version)

    The upgrade of My Dundee has been changed to 20th December 2018 – 7th January 2019 This is a change from the previously communicated 14th to 21st December. During this period staff and students will continue to have access to their modules on My Dundee, though there will be significant restrictions…

  • My Dundee Upgrade: Change of Dates (staff version)

    The upgrade of My Dundee has been changed to 20th December 2018 – 7th January 2019 This is a change from the previously communicated 14th to 21st December. During this period staff and students will continue to have access to their modules on My Dundee, though there will be significant restrictions…

  • Of Stories, Social Media and a bit of Lego

    As many of you have seen from the Dev diaries, CTIL are very busy undertaking the work required for this major project. However, I was able to take some time out last week to attend 2 sessions run by OPD. Tuesday’s session was looking at the University approach to Social…

  • DUSA questions for the DLF

    At our meeting on 25 September Sofia Skevofylaka and Stewart Squire of DUSA gave a short presentation about what the Students’ Association does for students in general, including DL students.   They have approximately 500 class representatives – there should be one for every class.  Not all DUSA’s services are currently…

  • Notes from the DLF meeting on 25 September 2018

    Sofia Skevofylaka and Stewart Squire of DUSA gave a short presentation about what the Students’ Association does for students in general, including DL students.  See separate blog posting about this input. Hamish Loveday of CTIL spoke to us on the topic ‘My Dundee: Change is coming’ Blackboard SaaS (software as…

  • Dev Diaries #3: A new look for the Future

    Welcome to our third dev. diary post. This week we’re going to have a look at Blackboard’s Ultra Experience that will, once enabled, bring a brand new user experience to My Dundee for both instructors and students. We’ve also got a final reminder to notify us of any planned learning and teaching activities requiring access to My Dundee during the migration week.

  • New Library teaching collections for nursing, law and design

    All University of Dundee staff and students have access to a wide range of academic resources, brought to you by the Library & Learning Centre (LLC). Each year the Library works to negotiate enhancements and additions to our collections, and these can often include online journal access, ebooks, video content, images…