• Digital Education Digest: Issue #1

    Five weeks and counting Welcome to the first of our Digital Education Digests, bringing you the latest announcements, resources and tips from the Centre for Technology and Innovation in Learning and the wider digital education community. With less than five weeks until the start of Semester one, we’ll issue this…

  • YuJa videos not being captioned: Resolved

    In the last two weeks, we had intermittent issues resulting in videos being added to YuJa not being auto captioned. This only affected a small number of videos (~30) and has now been resolved.

    Read this post for more details.

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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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…