• Left menu disappeared in your My Dundee Modules?

    • 09/08/2018
      • News
    • Emma

    One of the behind the scenes changes to Blackboard has meant that for some users, the left menu isn’t visible – as below. To see the menu, hover over the blue bar – and when a grey arrow appears, click on it. There are 3 reasons why your screen might…

  • My first Wikipedia article

    • 25/05/2018
      • News
    • Emma

    During the week, I attended a highly interactive workshop during the week in the Engine Shed in Stirling, lead by Sara Thomas, the Scotland Programme Coordinator for Wikimedia UK. While aimed at public library staff, I wasn’t the only person from a University there.

  • Updates to Feedback Studio (Turnitin)

    • 09/05/2018
      • News
    • Emma

    Those of you who are observant, may have noticed a new slider button at the bottom of Feedback Studio. Turnitin have recently introduced a new high resolution view of the students paper, but this does mean it’s a larger file size, so you may find disabling the high resolution useful…

  • Webinars from Blackboard

    • 03/05/2018
      • Collaborate
      • My Dundee
    • Emma

    Blackboard (the software powering My Dundee) run webinars covering a range of items of interest to users. In the past, these tended to be aimed at support teams, however, they have now started to run some aimed at those who work directly with the learners. There are 2 series that…

  • Recent Turnitin Issues.

    • 24/04/2018
      • Service News
    • Emma

    As some staff have noticed, Turnitin has had a number of short lived, but annoying, periods of down time recently. They have published a  letter from the CEO, looking at the recent issues and, more critically, what they are doing to mitigate issues in the future. In particular they have said:…

  • Maple TA: Service disruption 3am-4am April 11th

    • 10/04/2018
      • Service News
    • Emma

    In addition to the service downtime on the 12th April,  we have been notified by Maple TA that the service will be unavailable between 3am and 4am on the 11th April, as they have to install some security patches.  

  • Turnitin Service Alert – Now resolved

    • 27/03/2018
      • Service News
    • Emma

    We have just received the following message from Turnitin. You may have experienced issues viewing submissions within the Feedback Studio. This was down to a service disruption affecting the performance of Turnitin and Turnitin UK. The service was affected between 8 and 10.40 this morning. NOTE: They advise that you…

  • Using CampusPack Wiki (Students)

    • 26/03/2018
      • My Dundee
    • Emma

    What is a wiki? You’ve probably all used a Wiki – wikipedia is the most used wiki – but there are others. The first wiki was built by Ward Cunningham in 1994, and was designed to be a web site that is very easy to edit – you didn’t have…

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