We are starting to think about how we might offer online training, primarily for Distance learning staff, but could also be of interest to those who work on campus, and can’t get to face to face sessions. It is likely to be via Blackboard’s Collaborate Ultra tool (so you’ll get…
Join us in a Learning X, looking at innovation in assessment. We’ll be looking at ideas for staff to use various technologies to support innovative approaches to assessment; for example, if you already get your students to write a reflective piece – how about the option to get them to…
We have set up 2 sessions to help you understand your similarity report from Turnitin. In this session, we’ll look at a generic report, so you don’t have to bring a report with you. The sessions are limited in size – they’re all in the Main Library. You will need…
CTIL are offering some bookable training sessions for My Dundee and Turnitin . These sessions are bookable via Eventbrite – and are limited to 15 people per session. My Dundee. An Introduction for staff who’re new to My Dundee (or who feel they need a reminder of the basics). We’ll…
#CreativeHE is a group of educators who look at creative ideas for Learning & Teaching in HE. It’s grown from Manchester Metropolitan University’s PGCert, and now it operates as a community and discussion space to enable wider discussions and collaborations which will be of value for all of us. To get…
As you will have seen, we have recently upgraded our version of Blackboard, which is what powers My Dundee. While most of the changes were bug fixes, the one that may affect some staff is the change from using Crocodoc to annotate work that was submitted via the Blackboard assignment…
and, welcome to all new staff and students. We have recently updated the software behind My Dundee, which has brought a few new features, there’s more about them, and some of the upcoming training in other posts on the blog.
Turnitin have planned maintenance that will affect all Turnitin users between 4pm on December 27th to 1am on the 28th. Please see http://www.turnitin.com/self-service/system-status.html for more details including times in other areas of the world. This includes a link to their status twitter feed, which covers information about both planned and unplanned…
Staff may already know about the IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning ), but for those that don’t, the latest edition was published (online, and open) today. Many of the articles catch my eye, but the one I’m most interested in is The Impact of Whatsapp Use…
Turnitin’s annual User Summit was held on October 19th in Newcastle. They have noted that they are trying to address more of the needs of UK HE, and the keynote was by Kerr Gardiner , discussing the main themes from his consultation with a range of UK Universities (including Dundee). Then followed the…