My Dundee Blog

  • Turnitin help pages: New URL

    • 22/02/2019
      • Turnitin
    • Emma

    Turnitin are consolidating their help pages. The starting point for most Dundee users will be Blackboard Direct Integration We will be updating our links to reflect the new URL.    

  • Tip of the Week: Using + to make an email alias

      • News
    • Emma

    What’s an email alias? An email alias is simply an alternative email address. While you may be able to set up a totally different alias via your email provider, it’s also possible to use a + to create multiple different email addresses. What happens? With Gmail all of these messages…

  • Academic Skills Centre Sharing Good Practice Seminar series

      • Distance Learning Forum
    • Aileen McGuigan

    · Three upcoming seminars of interest to anyone involved in distance and online learning · All seminars are at 12.30-1.45pm in the EduZone, Main Library, and include lunch Friday 1 March Developing scholarship and evidence-based practice in digitally distributed learning and teaching – Professor Keith Smyth, University of the Highlands…

  • Coming up… DLF meeting on 5 March 2019, 14.00-16.00 hrs, Dalhousie 2S15

    • 19/02/2019
      • Distance Learning Forum
    • Aileen McGuigan

    We are looking forward to welcoming you along to the next meeting of the Distance Learning Forum which takes place on Tuesday 5 March. Here are the topics we’ll be covering: (1) The new interactive learning space at Dalhousie 2S15 As you will see from the subject line above, we’re…

  • Service issue: Turnitin (resolved)

    • 15/02/2019
      • News
      • Service News
    • Emma

    Update: Turnitin reports that all services are now up and running again (16/02/2019) Message from Turnitin: We’ve fixed it! Due to an unexpected database issue, users of Turnitin and Turnitin UK may have been unable to log in,  submit or grade papers today. Users accessing Turnitin and Turnitin UK through…

  • Collaborate Ultra – March update

    • 14/02/2019
      • News
      • Service News
    • Emma

    What’s happening? Collaborate Ultra is regularly updated. The update that is scheduled for March includes (among other things) security updates that may affect users at Dundee Who’s affected? Those who use Collaborate Ultra, and the following browsers Internet Explorer 11 (the default browser for those using Windows 7 – i.e….

  • Tip of the Week: Adding alt text to images in Powerpoint 2016

    • 08/02/2019
      • News
    • Emma

    While we tend to think of alt text as just a web-related issue, it’s also very important to ensure that there are text alternatives to images in Powerpoint, if they present additional information.  It’s possible to add alt text to images in Powerpoint 2016? Insert an image right click, and…

  • Dev Diaries #7: Digital Campus Roadmap 2019

    • 06/02/2019
      • CTIL
      • My Dundee
      • Panopto
      • Questionmark
    • Hamish Loveday

    The Digital Campus is the collection of platforms, tools and services that make up our elearning provision at the University of Dundee. We’ve coined this particular term to reflect our long term goal of moving beyond the simple delivery of tools to create a connected online environment to support education and education related activities across the university.

  • Turnitin – Change which QuickMark sets you can see

    • 21/01/2019
      • CTIL
      • Turnitin
    • Emma

    While many staff have found the QuickMarks feature of Turnitin invaluable, one comment that many have made is that there are too many default sets. Turnitin have now enabled markers’ ability to customise which sets they can see. A couple of points to help you: Make sure you customise them…

  • Digital Landscapes: Resident or Visitor?

      • CTIL
      • Events
    • Emma

    Natalie and I recently ran a workshop at Dundee and Angus College, with a group of staff from across the college – it was largely based on Dave White’s workshops looking at digital residents and visitors. Initially, we revisited Prensky’s digital native/immigrant work with them; like so many, they were…

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