• Edit your video in YuJa

    What is it? This guide takes you through the basic steps for editing your video in YuJa, including trimming the beginning and endings of your videos. What does it do? The editing functions in YuJa are limited if you are accustomed to video-editing software; however, it can do the main…

  • Create your YuJa channel

    Yuja is a tool integrated with Blackboard to create, capture, edit and share video content with others. A YuJa Channel is an area in YuJa that is connected specifically to your module in My Dundee.

  • Deploy Enterprise Surveys

    What is it? Enterprise Surveys are a Blackboard tool that can be used to deploy anonymous surveys to students in a modules/in modules. What does it do? It can be used to provide end-of-module surveys across individual modules across a school, discipline, year, etc. What should I know? Deployments distribute…

  • Enterprise Surveys overview

    What is it? Enterprise Surveys are a Blackboard tool that can be used to deploy anonymous surveys to students in a modules/in modules. What does it do? It can be used to provide end-of-module surveys across individual modules across a school, discipline, year, etc. What should I know? If your…

  • Use Padlet to create anonymous discussion areas

    What is it? You can turn off attribution in Padlet in order to create anonymous boards where students can post their comments or questions. What does it do? By linking to a ‘Secret’ Padlet that is not embedded directly in your class, you can allow a space for anonymous student…

  • Log into My Dundee

    What is My Dundee?  My Dundee is the University’s primary online learning platform where academics can deliver their modules online in part or in full, and students can access content, activities, assessment and more as part of their studies. The platform is based on Blackboard Learn which provides a modern, stable, flexible…

  • Interpret the similarity report and flags

    What is it? A similarity score is calculated by digitally scanning a submission against a database of journals, papers, and publications to detect plagiarism. It is important to encourage students not to focus too much on a high similarity score, but rather to focus on checking their work against what…

  • Upload grades to the Gradebook

    What is it? In addition to entering grades in each individual assignment, you can also bulk enter them by uploading a CSV file. This may be useful if you have an off-line submission. What does it do? This allows you to enter grades rapidly by using a CSV file. This…

  • Bulk publish your videos

    What is it? If you have created a set of multiple videos that you want to publish to a specific module all at once, you can use this process to do it in a group rather than publishing each video individually. For instance, if you have created videos for a…