• Insert YuJa video into a Learning Spaces blog

    Embed method to insert video link to blog CampusPress (the hosts of our Learning Spaces word press blogs) lets you add a video from your YuJa video into your Learning Spaces blog. You do this by copying the embed code. Steps in YuJa Go to video.dundee.ac.uk and find the video…

  • The Herald online

    The University of Dundee now has on-campus access to The Herald, thanks to an initiative to provide free access to the heraldscotland.com website to all colleges and Universities in Scotland.

  • EBSCOhost Educational Databases

    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.

  • Powerful Revision Strategies

    In this Bite we look at some other proven techniques that you can use to further refine your approach. 

  • Building Recall

    Revision Bites aims to equip you with a number of potentially powerful new ways to approach your learning, but perhaps the most important of all is ‘recall’, or ‘information retrieval’. In this Bite we’ll explain why this approach is so crucial.

  • Scheduling Effective Revision

    In this Bite we look at two powerful concepts related to how you organise your revision- ‘Spaced Practice’ and ‘Interleaving’.

  • Ineffective Revision Techniques

    Research shows that many people use the same handful of popular approaches but that these techniques don’t really work effectively for university level revision. This Revision Bite looks at a few of these common but ineffective techniques.

  • Old bookmarks taking you to the old My Dundee?

    What’s happening With the move to the Ultra Navigation, some users have reported that the previous bookmarks that they had for specific My Dundee pages are taking them to the old style “front page” of Blackboard. When a user gets into this area, they’re able to get into courses etc,…

  • Tip of the Week: Link to specific times in a video

    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…

  • ICE Virtual Library – Featured Resource

    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.