• Ally for Instructors

    Blackboard Ally works with My Dundee to gauge the accessibility of your content. Ally provides guidance and tips for lasting improvements to your content accessibility. The launch of Blackboard Ally coincides with the new legislation regarding digital accessibility. As of 23, September 2019, every new resource you publish is required by law to…

  • Lecture Capture: Lessons from Week 1

    As we come to the end of week one for most modules, we thought it would be a good idea to compile a list of the frequent questions and issues that have arisen so far with our new lecture capture workflow. These will likely end up in knowledge articles in…

  • Digital Education Cheat-Sheet 22/23

    With teaching already underway for some and Welcome Week starting shortly, we’ve pulled together some of the key resources you may need start off on the right foot with My Dundee and other areas of our digital campus. Also, don’t forget to enrol any colleagues who need access to your…

  • AV Support for 23/24

    What to do when something goes wrong Teaching spaces support will be delivered this year by a small team combining the Learning Spaces Technology Support Team and elements from CTIL. As in previous years, the emergency support for teaching spaces is accessed by dialling *1 from the in-room phones: Support…

  • Making sense of Hybrid, Lecture Capture and Teaching Spaces in 22/23

    We’ve written this article to unpick some of the confusion we have encountered around Hybrid Vs Lecture Capture, YuJa Vs Collaborate and the differences between room types for this academic year. Read on and all will become clear! Ingredients To deliver your teaching sessions successfully in a desired mode, you…

  • Lecture Capture for Academic Year 22/23

    Lecture Capture is now available in all centrally timetabled teaching spaces, including enhanced rooms, upgraded through the hybrid project, and general teaching still on old room designs. This new service uses in-room equipment and the YuJa video management platform to capture, store and distribute recordings to My Dundee. Read on…

  • Record a lecture in a Standard Teaching Space (Guide)

    Standard Teaching Rooms are equipped so that you can record your session for use as learning reinforcement using a basic microphone, screen capture and a simple ‘presence’ camera.

  • YuJa: Scheduled Service Interruption

    Anybody using YuJa between 17:00 and 17:30 on Wednesday, 20/07/2022 may find their access to the service interrupted and we advice everyone to avoid using YuJa during this time. What is happening? We are updating the certificate attached to the domain: ‘video.dundee.ac.uk‘ which is used by the YuJa video management…

  • Lecture Capture (22/23) #2: Draft Workflow

    A little behind schedule due to Covid finally catching up to me, i’m pleased to publish the initial draft workflow for how lecture capture will be done in the new academic year. This is also a call for any lecturers willing and able to look over, test out and comment…