Getting too many emails from My Dundee? These notifications aim to give you daily information of the changes made to your modules, new content, grades, or any other useful information, but if you’re finding you’re getting a little too much, read on to learn how to manage your notification settings….
To support our commitment to a more inclusive campus, we’ve introduced a new tool called Ally into your My Dundee modules to help improve the accessibility of your module content. Ally doesn’t change how anything works in your module and doesn’t affect your module files. This new tool has been…
How to prepare for the end of life of Flash
This message was emailed to all My Dundee users on 9 May 2019 Just to remind you that on Tuesday 4 June, My Dundee will be getting a new look. This will apply a new, intuitive interface to the main navigation elements of My Dundee without affecting modules – you…
Updates for both iOS and Android users Students may have noticed that grades in the Marks area of the Blackboard app are colour coded; however, the colour coding doesn’t match Dundee grading scales – they’re based on US grading scales – which means that marks have to be above 92%…
Turnitin in report that there were issues overnight. The areas affected were: Turnitin Paper Submissions, Turnitin Feedback Studio Grading Access. They state: “During this time, you may experience issues when trying to submit and may also find that Similarity Reports are unavailable. We invite you to track the progress of…
CTIL was recently tasked with helping our colleagues at Academic Skills Centre (ASC) to help create a short set of revision guides named ‘Revision Bites’, to help students not fall foul of some of the common ineffective study techniques and take advantage of proven effective study strategies. The resource comprises a number of…
Why can’t I copy text that’s in a student submission in TII? Many staff ask how they can copy text in a student Turnitin submission to paste into the feedback – to give further information, or perhaps they want to copy a URL to follow it up. However, as markers…
We have already posted that the March update to Collaborate Ultra will mean that you’re no longer able to use Internet Explorer for Collaborate – and that IE / older versions of Safari no longer support Blackboard anyway. What’s happening? On March 21st, Collaborate Ultra will be updated, as part of…
What’s happening Blackboard Learn, the service My Dundee is based on, no longer officially supports Internet Explorer. This means that although it may continue to work for most activities, it will become increasingly unreliable as new feature and updates are added. If you encounter any issues when using My Dundee,…