As you will have seen, we have recently upgraded our version of Blackboard, which is what powers My Dundee. While most of the changes were bug fixes, the one that may affect some staff is the change from using Crocodoc to annotate work that was submitted via the Blackboard assignment…
At the same time as upgrading the main Blackboard set of tools, we also upgraded the integration that we have between My Dundee and Turnitin. The key improvement for staff is that we now have the ability for staff (not students) to see a list of all of the Turnitin…
and, welcome to all new staff and students. We have recently updated the software behind My Dundee, which has brought a few new features, there’s more about them, and some of the upcoming training in other posts on the blog.
This covers aspects of marking work that was submitted via Blackboard’s assignment tool. As well as some differences in the way that staff can add comments to work, the new view also supports a greater range of file types – though note that if you also want to use Safe…
The maintenance of My Dundee has been completed successfully. We have tested the system but if you do encounter any issues, please report them at help4u.dundee.ac.uk Our thanks to our colleagues at UoD IT for another efficient upgrade procedure. Best Regards Centre for Technology and Innovation in Learning (CTIL)
The Centre for Technology and Innovation in Learning (CTIL) is closed for the winter holidays. We will not be able to respond to emails or phone calls between 12:00pm, 22/12/2018 and 09:00am, 03/01/2018. Please note that My Dundee will be down for maintenance on the 5th of January, 2018. Read…
Turnitin have planned maintenance that will affect all Turnitin users between 4pm on December 27th to 1am on the 28th. Please see http://www.turnitin.com/self-service/system-status.html for more details including times in other areas of the world. This includes a link to their status twitter feed, which covers information about both planned and unplanned…
What’s Happening My Dundee will be taken offline for maintenance on the morning of the 5th of January 2018. It is planned that the service will be restored on the same day, though there will be an at risk period that extends to Monday the 8th. At Risk? Although the maintenance period…
Staff may already know about the IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning ), but for those that don’t, the latest edition was published (online, and open) today. Many of the articles catch my eye, but the one I’m most interested in is The Impact of Whatsapp Use…
It can be very easy to accidentally create a 2nd part in Turnitin – the impact can be a very worrying for staff, as it looks as if all your students have failed! If you look at the top, you’ll see a 2nd tab labelled Part 2. Click on the…