• Turnitin help pages: New URL

    • 22/02/2019
      • Turnitin
    • Emma

    Turnitin are consolidating their help pages. The starting point for most Dundee users will be Blackboard Direct Integration We will be updating our links to reflect the new URL.    

  • Tip of the Week: Using + to make an email alias

      • News
    • Emma

    What’s an email alias? An email alias is simply an alternative email address. While you may be able to set up a totally different alias via your email provider, it’s also possible to use a + to create multiple different email addresses. What happens? With Gmail all of these messages…

  • Service issue: Turnitin (resolved)

    • 15/02/2019
      • News
      • Service News
    • Emma

    Update: Turnitin reports that all services are now up and running again (16/02/2019) Message from Turnitin: We’ve fixed it! Due to an unexpected database issue, users of Turnitin and Turnitin UK may have been unable to log in,  submit or grade papers today. Users accessing Turnitin and Turnitin UK through…

  • Collaborate Ultra – March update

    • 14/02/2019
      • News
      • Service News
    • Emma

    What’s happening? Collaborate Ultra is regularly updated. The update that is scheduled for March includes (among other things) security updates that may affect users at Dundee Who’s affected? Those who use Collaborate Ultra, and the following browsers Internet Explorer 11 (the default browser for those using Windows 7 – i.e….

  • Tip of the Week: Adding alt text to images in Powerpoint 2016

    • 08/02/2019
      • News
    • Emma

    While we tend to think of alt text as just a web-related issue, it’s also very important to ensure that there are text alternatives to images in Powerpoint, if they present additional information.  It’s possible to add alt text to images in Powerpoint 2016? Insert an image right click, and…

  • Turnitin – Change which QuickMark sets you can see

    • 21/01/2019
      • CTIL
      • Turnitin
    • Emma

    While many staff have found the QuickMarks feature of Turnitin invaluable, one comment that many have made is that there are too many default sets. Turnitin have now enabled markers’ ability to customise which sets they can see. A couple of points to help you: Make sure you customise them…

  • Digital Landscapes: Resident or Visitor?

      • CTIL
      • Events
    • Emma

    Natalie and I recently ran a workshop at Dundee and Angus College, with a group of staff from across the college – it was largely based on Dave White’s workshops looking at digital residents and visitors. Initially, we revisited Prensky’s digital native/immigrant work with them; like so many, they were…

  • Of Stories, Social Media and a bit of Lego

    • 05/11/2018
      • News
    • Emma

    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…

  • Student Competition – Students against Contract Cheating.

    • 17/10/2018
      • News
    • Emma

    You have probably seen news reports recently of students engaging in “contract cheating” – particularly as there is currently pressure on the Government to ban the essay mills that supply the essays. In order to raise students awareness of the implications for themselves if they engage in contract cheating, October…

  • Introducing blogging … on paper

    • 14/09/2018
      • Learning Spaces
    • Emma

    As we start to roll the Learning Spaces pilot further out we’ve been thinking about how to get students to consider both the practical “how to” of blogging, and also the often more difficult to express, “why to”, what benefits does blogging really bring for students. I’ve just had 2…

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