• Hide items in the Gradebook

    • 26/11/2020
    • Hamish Loveday

    Grade columns can’t be hidden in Ultra, but this is a workaround to hide marks from students while you are actively marking them.

  • What is Padlet?

    • 24/11/2020
    • Hamish Loveday

    Padlet is a digital canvas to create beautiful projects that are easy to share and use to collaborate. It works like a piece of paper – we give you an empty page and you can put whatever you like on it. You can drag in a video, record an interview, snap a selfie, write your own text posts or upload documents and voilà, a Padlet is born. Make it even more beautiful by choosing custom wallpapers and themes.

  • My Dundee monthly update (Ver. 3900.0.0)

    • 06/11/2020
      • Collaborate
      • CTIL
      • Service News
    • Hamish Loveday

    Blackboard Learn, the platform that My Dundee is based on, was upgraded* to version 3900.0.0 last night. Key changes include (taken from Blackboard help pages): Embed Office 365 documents: In this release, students and instructors can embed Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files as well as Microsoft Stream videos from…

  • Collaborate Urgent Maintenance: Tonight, 00:00-04:00GMT

    • 05/11/2020
      • Collaborate
      • CTIL
      • Service News
    • Hamish Loveday

    Blackboard will be performing system maintenance on Collaborate that may affect anyone using the service during this time. The work will be done over a 4 hour period between 0000hrs (midnight) and 0400hrs (GMT) (Friday 6th Nov 2020). IMPORTANT NOTE: We also strongly recommend avoiding using Collaborate Ultra throughout these maintenance windows…

  • #12 Video Recording 2: YuJa

    • 28/10/2020
    • Hamish Loveday

    To support staff with the move to the new Ultra interface in My Dundee during the summer of 2020, we created and ran a series of online sessions covering some of the key functionality of Blackboard Ultra.

  • #11 Accessibility tools in My Dundee

    • 23/10/2020
    • Hamish Loveday

    To support staff with the move to the new Ultra interface in My Dundee during the summer of 2020, we created and ran a series of online sessions covering some of the key functionality of Blackboard Ultra.

  • Collaborate top tips

    • 22/10/2020
    • Hamish Loveday

    A selection of our top tips when using Blackboard Collaborate Ultra.

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