We’ve seen some calls coming in to Help4U and had questions asked at the service desk about how to access Turnitin. We just wanted to make a quick post to remind all students that Turnitin is accessed solely from within My Dundee. If you have a Turnitin assignment for a…
On February 5, Turnitin reported a service incident that entirely prevented users from accessing Turnitin. They marked this as resolved that day, but we recieved several reports from a variety of users on the morning of Monday the 6th that there were still on-going issues. According to our internal records,…
What is it? Your instructor may have created an assignment that asks you to make and submit a video presentation. This guide will walk you through how to submit your file once you have created it. What does it do? There are two main ways you will be asked to…
Update: Turnitin have confirmed that the issue has now been resolved. They have also updated their status page to confirm that the issue occurred between 10:19 – 15:31 GMT. If you are still having any issues, please let us know via Help4U! Original Issue — 16/01/2023 at 11:08 GMT: Turnitin…
Removal of recordings in Collaborate prior to the 21/22 AY Over the past few years, we have spoken about how we will be removing older recordings. This is for two main reasons – the first and most timely is that we need to reduce our overall storage footprint. The second…
Over the summer, the option to use student progress tracking became available in your modules. At that time, this was just for your students so they could track their own progress to see what items they had reviewed or completed (in the case of Blackboard tests and assignments). With the…
What is it? Learning Spaces is an educational version of WordPress that the University of Dundee has for learning and teaching related activities. What does it do? Instructors: Students: Getting started Check out our guide on requesting a site! Check out guides and help information from CampusPress.
What is it? Once you’ve got a site created in Learning Spaces, you may want to edit your profile to add an avatar, change your display name, or add a link to another website (e.g. your LinkedIn profile). What does it do? You can change a number of aspects of…
What is it? Once you’ve had your site created, you want to add other people to it – either as content creators or as subscribers so they can access your site if you’ve made it private. You can do this if you are an administator on the site and as…
What is it? Once you’ve had your main site set up, you may need to turn this into a “Class” site if you’ve also requested a set of student sites. If you haven’t yet requested a site yet, head over to our Learning Spaces page or our Request a site…