What is an Easter Egg? As well as the sweet / decorated types of easter egg, you can also find “easter eggs” hidden in websites and software. The first one dates back to 1979 (Happy 40th Birthday!) – and was found in an Atari game – Adventure 2600. Today, they…
If you haven’t attended the DLF for a while, now is a very good time to come back! On Thursday 9 May we will start in Dalhousie 1G06, where we will be joined by Hamish Loveday of CTIL, who will be telling us all about Blackboard Ultra and showing us…
Proposed dates for the DLF meetings in 2019/20 are as follows: Tuesday 1 October 2019 14-16.00 hrs Thursday 5 December 2019 14-16.00 hrs Tuesday 10 March 2020 14-16.00 hrs Thursday 14 May 2020 14-16.00 hrs As usual we are varying between Tuesdays and Thursdays so that those who are always…
We had a great meeting on Tuesday 5 March, when Jonathan Walker of UoDIT ran us through some of the facilities offered by the new interactive learning space in Dalhousie… and we discussed programme evaluation, with helpful inputs from Iain Gillespie on the University Survey Service and Martin Glover on the PG…
Updates for both iOS and Android users Students may have noticed that grades in the Marks area of the Blackboard app are colour coded; however, the colour coding doesn’t match Dundee grading scales – they’re based on US grading scales – which means that marks have to be above 92%…
We all like to add video content, however sometime when we add a video it is good to start the video at a specific point. In this tip of the week I will show you how to do this in both YouTube and Vimeo. YouTube – right click YouTube is…
The ICE Virtual Library, hosts all the content from the ICE publishing division of the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE), providing information for researchers and practitioners worldwide in the fields of civil engineering, construction and materials science.
Turnitin in report that there were issues overnight. The areas affected were: Turnitin Paper Submissions, Turnitin Feedback Studio Grading Access. They state: “During this time, you may experience issues when trying to submit and may also find that Similarity Reports are unavailable. We invite you to track the progress of…
CTIL was recently tasked with helping our colleagues at Academic Skills Centre (ASC) to help create a short set of revision guides named ‘Revision Bites’, to help students not fall foul of some of the common ineffective study techniques and take advantage of proven effective study strategies. The resource comprises a number of…