• Are you a Digital Scholar?

    Or would you like to become one? In the last learning X, we looked at investigating and developing your Learning Footprint. In a related theme, we’d like to invite you to join with us in working through an Open Learn course,  The Digital Scholar. The course is developed by Martin…

  • Uploading rubrics and grading forms to Turnitin.

    If you want to use rubrics and grading forms with Turnitin there are a number of stages: Add a rubric to your library: This could be through creating a rubric OR uploading one someone else created. In either case, the rubric is attached to you, so you’ll only have to…

  • Move to Questionmark On-Demand

    As you may know, we have been in the process of transitioning our Questionmark service from the self-hosted ‘Perception’ to the new cloud-hosted ‘On-Demand’ (OD) service. This project was meant to be completed over the summer but was unexpectedly delayed. The delay has now been resolved and we are able to move forward once again. Read on for details of the new project schedule..

  • Service Announcements (resolved)

    All our systems are working as expected at the moment but watch this space for future issues and announcements. We’re working on new ways to communicate the status of our services and we’re starting off with a specific announcements feed that will appear on the front page of My Dundee….

  • Learning Footprints

    Staff and students – have you investigated your learning footprint?

  • Apps for My Dundee

    You can access My Dundee on your mobile device using two new apps developed by Blackboard (the system on which My Dundee is based). See below for download links to the student and instructor apps as well as for instructions and video guides. Blackboard (students) Download on your iPhone© or…

  • Turnitin Training

    OPD, supported by CTIL, are offering Turnitin training sessions, the next 2 are: Thursday 5th October. 10am-noon This session covers setting up assessments, so will be useful for administrative staff and also those academics who set up their own assessments. Monday 6th November: 10am – noon. This session will focus…

  • My Dundee Training

    OPD, supported by CTIL, are offering My Dundee training sessions, the next 1 is: Wednesday 15th November: 10am – noon. This session will cover the basics of adding and editing content on My Dundee. We hope to have time at the end to look at some more advanced features, depending…

  • Third Party Cookies

    Certain features in My Dundee, such as Turnitin or Campus Pack require the users’ browsers to be set to accept third-party cookies in order to maintain functionality.  A cookie is a small file sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer while the user is browsing. They are used…