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  • 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…

  • Changes coming to Messages in Organisations

    On Friday, 14, July 2023, we will be turning off Messages in all Organisations. What is happening? Messages will be disabled in Organisations. Neither staff nor students will be able to send messages from any Organisation. There will still be a letter icon next to instructor names in the “Organisation…

  • Archival of 7-year-old content from My Dundee (2023)

    Now that all modules that start in Semester 1 or 2 of 2023 have been created (this includes all modules coded SEM01, SEM12, and SEM02), 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…

  • University-wide organisations on My Dundee

    When you first start at the University of Dundee, whether as a student or member of staff, you’ll be enrolled on a number of organisations automatically. Below you’ll find a list of organisations that have university-wide enrolment rules set up. Please note that this list is accurate of June 2023,…

  • Summary of My Dundee issues for April 2023

    What happened? On 20 and 25 April, there were DNS issues affecting My Dundee and associated services. Due to the nature of DNS, what people experienced varied heavily. Some users would not have experienced any issues. Other users were not able to get into embedded tools such as Turnitin, and…

  • Issue accessing My Dundee and related tools (solution suggested)

    Update (15:30 BST 27/04/2023): Blackboard have confirmed that their solution to this issue is in place and it has fixed the issue for the majority of our users at UoD. However, they have noted that due to the nature of DNS, it takes time for this solution to reach everyone…

  • DNS issue affecting My Dundee and related tools

    From approximately 10:30 BST today (20 April 2023), we had reports from some users who were unable to access Turnitin. We have confirmed that this is due to a global DNS error that Blackboard has reported on their status page. Although this is an issue that originate with Blackboard (My…