• Removal of old recordings in Collaborate

    Removal of recordings in Collaborate prior to the 21/22 AY Over the past few years, we have spoken about how we will be removing older recordings. This is for two main reasons – the first and most timely is that we need to reduce our overall storage footprint. The second…

  • Collaborate attendance issue

    What to do when students have unmarked attendance after a Collaborate session

  • My Dundee monthly update (Ver. 3900.0.0)

    Blackboard Learn, the platform that My Dundee is based on, was upgraded* to version 3900.0.0 last night. Key changes include (taken from Blackboard help pages): Embed Office 365 documents: In this release, students and instructors can embed Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files as well as Microsoft Stream videos from…

  • Collaborate Urgent Maintenance: Tonight, 00:00-04:00GMT

    Blackboard will be performing system maintenance on Collaborate that may affect anyone using the service during this time. The work will be done over a 4 hour period between 0000hrs (midnight) and 0400hrs (GMT) (Friday 6th Nov 2020). IMPORTANT NOTE: We also strongly recommend avoiding using Collaborate Ultra throughout these maintenance windows…

  • “MoCo” Meeting summary

    Blackboard have several interest groups in their Community Site. One that I attend when is “MoCo“, which covers both the mobile app and collaborate. The September meeting , covered several useful points. Feel free to watch it (it’s an hour long), but if you’d like a summary… Polls and Reporting – if…