Removal of recordings in Collaborate prior to the 21/22 AY Over the past few years, we have spoken about how we will be removing older recordings. This is for two main reasons – the first and most timely is that we need to reduce our overall storage footprint. The second is to set up and implement a regular retention policy for videos held in Collaborate and YuJa. As a first step toward adopting a standard retention policy, we are going to remove all recordings in Collaborate that have been created on July 31st 2021 or earlier. This is roughly 4 ... Read More
Blackboard have now released their app for Instructors. This is a summary of the key points, for further instructions, please see Blackboard for Instructors (help page) Students - there is also a new app for students, more on that soon ... read more
The following notice came in from Turinit: Service Announcement Planned Turnitin Maintenance: Saturday August 5, 2017 7am – 1pm PST / 3pm – 9pm BST / 12am – 6am (Sunday 6) AEST (click here for your local time zone).Turnitin will be undergoing essential maintenance and will be unavailable. All Turnitin customers on the following services will be affected including: Turnitin (including mobile) TurnitinUK Integrations iThenticate WriteCheck The following services will not be affected: Revision Assistant Where applicable, please be aware ... read more
We are currently rolling over modules in MyDundee. Just to remind you, this is the process by which we create new modules, either rolled over from the previous year, or empty ones, for those that prefer to significantly update their modules. This does take some time, as we have to extract data from information that school offices have supplied, check its validity, then generate upload files (our new system administrator, Andy Dalrymple, has created a great form which makes this ... read more