What is it? Yuja provides instructors and students with a flexible set of tools to capture, edit and distribute video content for a wide range of educational purposes, from assessment to lecture capture. It is integrated into My Dundee making it easy to author and distribute video within a Module…
What is it? A large-scale Collaborate session is for around 250-500 total people (including any moderators or presenters). Creating a Collaborate session for more than 250 users is simple, but you must remember to follow the steps below in advance of that session. What does it do? There are a…
What is Turnitin? Turnitin is the primary similarity checker and feedback tool used by the University of Dundee. Instructors use Turnitin as a submission point for text-based assignments (like essays or PowerPoint presentations). Turnitin generates similarity reports that can be accessed by instructors and students. Who is it for? Students…
We all have our own approaches to learning, not every student uses the same revision techniques, speaks the same language or has the same abilities and disabilities. As individual students we all have unique learning needs, so why should we all be expected to learn in the same way? Blackboard…
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…