• Removal of old recordings in Collaborate

    Removal of recordings in Collaborate prior to the 23/24 AY As a continued effort towards adopting a standard retention policy, we are going to remove all recordings in Collaborate that have been created on July 31st 2023 or earlier. This is roughly 2.7 TB of data. What is happening? Will…

  • Fix Your Content Day – 2024

    Get help understanding your Ally reports, learn the fixes – and how to avoid errors in the first place.

  • Important Notice: My Dundee- Blackboard Announcement Email Issue

    We are aware of an incident on My Dundee where users have been receiving announcements via email since this morning. We suspect that these emails are due to both the ’email announcement’ and ‘schedule announcement’ options being selected, causing historical announcements to be processed retroactively. This is impacting Blackboard users…

  • What’s New in My Dundee for AY2425

    Excited to announce a session on ‘ What’s New in My Dundee for AY2425’ . This session will take you through the recent changes made along with updates from Blackboard. Session Details are as follows Date: Tuesday, 9th July 2024 Time: 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM  Duration: 45 minutes, with a…

  • Archival of 7-year-old content from My Dundee (2024)

    Now that all modules that start in Semester 1 and 2 of 2024 have been created (this includes all modules coded SEM01, SEM02, SEM12,SEM00), it’s time to return to the process of archiving modules older than seven years. As part of our annual process, we archive modules older than seven…

  • Removal of old recordings in Collaborate

    Removal of recordings in Collaborate prior to the 22/23 AY As last year, we will be removing older recordings from collaborate . This is for two main reasons – the first and most timely is that we need to reduce our overall storage footprint. The second is to set up…

  • Turnitin scheduled Maintenance for 20/4/24

    Turnitin has maintenance scheduled for 20 April, 2024 that prevent any use of Similarity and originality check . The disruptions are also expected in feedback studio and other services of Turnitin from 15:00 – 20:00 BST. We anticipate that there may be service issues following this planned downtime as well,…

  • Turnitin scheduled Maintenance for 16/3/24

    Turnitin has maintenance scheduled for 16 March, 2024 that prevent any use of Similarity and originality check . The disruptions are also expected in other services of Turnitin from 14:00 – 18:00 BST. We anticipate that there may be service issues following this planned downtime as well, so we appreciate…

  • A New Video Service Is on Its Way – Integrated Video Project Update

    The Integrated Video Project is entering an exciting new phase as we work towards the release of a brand new service to support the creation and distribution of video content for education and all other areas of the university. Today, we’re excited to announce the selection of a new video…

  • Archival of YuJa Content – Important Notice

    In early August, we communicated our intentions to purge older and unused video content from YuJa, a necessary step towards managing our escalating storage demands. A technical hitch caused us a slight delay, but we are now positioned to commence the archiving process on Friday, 10th November, at 9am. We…