My Dundee Blog

  • “Blend your Module” – Getting started with ABC Curriculum Design

    • 08/07/2020
      • CTIL
      • Learning X
    • Emma

    Over the past fortnight, we have revived LearningX (now in its own home), and have created “Blend Your Module” This has been, and still is a work in progress, trying to take apart the ABC Curriculum design, developed originally by UCL to work for Dundee. We know that learning and…

  • ABC Design Workshops: An exploration

    • 02/06/2020
      • CTIL
      • My Dundee
    • Emma

    As with digital education teams across all Universities, here in CTIL we’re helping staff to adjust to a very different way of teaching in 20/21. While we have been wanting to support staff to make greater use of technology to support learning – it’s now been thrust upon us –…

  • Live hand drawn content

    • 08/05/2020
      • CTIL
    • Emma

    One of the more common questions we’ve been asked in the CTIL team is how to incorporate hand drawn content – such as equations, graphs etc. I saw a tweet from James Clay, leading to his post on just this issue  – using a tablet as a separate whiteboard. To summarise…

  • Online Exam Update: Students

    • 26/04/2020
      • CTIL
    • Hamish Loveday

    This email was sent out to all students in My Dudnee 26/04/2020.     read 26 April 2020 Online Exam Update: Students Centre for Technology & Innovation in Learning   Dear Students   Tomorrow is the official start of our first ever fully online exam diet. For many of you,…

  • Exam Diet Update 26/04/2020

      • CTIL
    • Hamish Loveday

    Dear Colleagues Our first 100% online exam diet starts tomorrow with over 250 registered exams being delivered through My Dundee in the coming weeks. This is no small task for the academics, administrative staff, support services and – most importantly – students involved, so I wanted to update you all…

  • CTIL Update 27/03/2020

    • 27/03/2020
      • Collaborate
      • CTIL
      • My Dundee
      • YuJa
    • Hamish Loveday

    This message was emailed to all Instructors 27/03/2020     read online 27 March 2020 CTIL Update 27/03/2020 Centre for Technology & Innovation in Learning   Dear Colleagues The reliability of services is more important than ever, so I want to give everyone an update on two of our key…

  • YuJa support Chrome 80 version (Mashup tool My Dundee)

    • 09/03/2020
      • CTIL
      • YuJa
    • Ed Wood

    YuJa support for Chrome 80 version (“The Cookie Crumbling Update”) YuJa made several changes to accommodate the new Chrome 80 release, which introduced several breaking changes to most major third-party web applications. This all went well, however some UoD staff were experiencing problems when adding YuJa content from the mashup…

  • Netflix in the classroom

    • 28/02/2020
      • CTIL
      • News
    • Laura Gauld

    As an instructor, you may have found yourself wishing you could show a film from Netflix in your classroom. Until recently, Netflix has not allowed their content to be shared in public spaces, even for educational purposes. Netflix have now opened up some of their original content to be screened…

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