• Room bookings now confirmed for DLF City Campus meetings

      29.11.18 (Thursday)       14-16.00 hrs   City Campus, Dalhousie 1G06 Student engagement online – how we do it and how we can do it better; Responsibility of learners for their own learning Adviser of Studies handbook 04.12.18 (Tuesday)        14-15.00 hrs Online via Collaborate Ultra; join…

  • Dev Diaries #2: Upgrade Roadmap

    With the announced migration of My Dundee to a brand new home in the cloud, CTIL and UoD IT have begun rehearsing and testing the process ready for the actual move at the end of the year. We’ve also started to work through the migration impact forms we’d previously announced and are busy planning what interim provision will be available during the migration week.

  • Introducing blogging … on paper

    As we start to roll the Learning Spaces pilot further out we’ve been thinking about how to get students to consider both the practical “how to” of blogging, and also the often more difficult to express, “why to”, what benefits does blogging really bring for students. I’ve just had 2…

  • Introducing: academic lead for distance and blended learning

    As you may already know I’ve recently been seconded for half my time to the newly created post of Academic Lead for Distance & Blended Learning. I’ll be working closely with the Distance Learning Forum as we look at ways of further increasing the visibility of Distance Learning, enhancing what…

  • Distance Learning Forum: dates 2018-19

    This year’s first DLF session, on 25 September, will kick off with Sofia Skevofylaka and Stewart Squire bringing us up to date with DUSA’s work on distance learning student representation – and what they hope to achieve in the year ahead. Hamish Loveday of our Centre for Innovation and Technology…

  • A new home for Distance Learning Forum communications

    We are pleased to have found a new home for DLF communications here on the My Dundee blog. About the DLF: University of Dundee’s Distance Learning Forum is comprised of a wide mix of academics, administrative and executive staff and students who are committed to promoting the interests of the…

  • Welcome to My Dundee (students)

    Welcome to My Dundee for the new academic year 2018/19 and a special hello to those of you who are joining us for the first time.

  • Left menu disappeared in your My Dundee Modules?

    One of the behind the scenes changes to Blackboard has meant that for some users, the left menu isn’t visible – as below. To see the menu, hover over the blue bar – and when a grey arrow appears, click on it. There are 3 reasons why your screen might…