We are looking forward to welcoming you along to the next meeting of the Distance Learning Forum which takes place on Tuesday 5 March. Here are the topics we’ll be covering: (1) The new interactive learning space at Dalhousie 2S15 As you will see from the subject line above, we’re…
The Digital Campus is the collection of platforms, tools and services that make up our elearning provision at the University of Dundee. We’ve coined this particular term to reflect our long term goal of moving beyond the simple delivery of tools to create a connected online environment to support education and education related activities across the university.
While many staff have found the QuickMarks feature of Turnitin invaluable, one comment that many have made is that there are too many default sets. Turnitin have now enabled markers’ ability to customise which sets they can see. A couple of points to help you: Make sure you customise them…
Natalie and I recently ran a workshop at Dundee and Angus College, with a group of staff from across the college – it was largely based on Dave White’s workshops looking at digital residents and visitors. Initially, we revisited Prensky’s digital native/immigrant work with them; like so many, they were…
This functionality has now been partially restored throu a new development in EVision. See https://ctil.dundee.ac.uk//2019/03/07/class-photos-in-evision/ for details What’s Happening? A tool called ‘Student Attainment’ has been used in the past by some instructors to see ID photos of the students enrolled in their modules has stopped working since the upgrade (for…
We had a few people report issues with the links on the front page tab in My Dundee, mainly eVision. When clicked, some links displayed various errors rather than taking you to the intended site.
We’re pleased to announce that the upgrade of My Dundee has been completed ahead of schedule. This post lists some of the changes that come with the upgrade.
Do you want to make a difference to Social Justice? The Social Justice Challenge is a great 5 week opportunity for students to work on real life issues with local organisations. Applications is open now until 10 December for the January challenge event. Read more on our site
Due to early completion of work by our vendor, Blackboard, we are able to bring forward the deadline for finishing the My Dundee upgrade to Friday 4 Jan 2018. To facilitate this we will be removing access to the temporary provision at 09:30 (GMT) on Thursday 3 Jan 2019 (tomorrow). There will be no access to My Dundee during this transition period.
You can now access the temporary provision of My Dundee at the usual URL: my.dundee.ac.uk. This service will remain available over the winter closure until we are ready to bring the upgraded instance back online in the new year. Note that this temporary provision is in place for reference purposes only. There are limitations to what users can do and the service may be taken down at any time if required.