My Dundee Blog

  • Service Announcements (resolved)

    • 03/10/2017
      • My Dundee
    • Hamish Loveday

    All our systems are working as expected at the moment but watch this space for future issues and announcements. We’re working on new ways to communicate the status of our services and we’re starting off with a specific announcements feed that will appear on the front page of My Dundee….

  • Third Party Cookies

    • 26/09/2017
      • My Dundee
      • Panopto
      • Turnitin
    • ctil

    Certain features in My Dundee, such as Turnitin or Campus Pack require the users’ browsers to be set to accept third-party cookies in order to maintain functionality.  A cookie is a small file sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer while the user is browsing. They are used…

  • Student Support for turnitin.

    • 08/09/2017
      • My Dundee
      • Turnitin
    • ctil

    We have created 2 videos for students to support their use of Turnitin. How to upload your work to Turnitin How to interpret your similarity score. You may find it useful to have some general introductory information – suggested text is below. You are required to submit your coursework via…

  • Creating and Using Groups in Original courses

    • 29/08/2017
      • My Dundee
    • ctil

    Why have groups? There are a number of reasons you may wish to use groups in MyDundee. User Management. For example, large classes with multiple tutors may want to have an easy way for tutors to contact those students in their tutorial groups. It may also be that those tutors…

  • Extracting Grades from Grade Centre

      • My Dundee
    • ctil

    You may need to extract the grades from the Grade Centre for entering to eVision. Note that at present, it is still necessary to manually enter the data, we are not yet able to upload data electronically to SITS. 1: The grade centre is accessed from the Course Management section of…

  • Qwickly

      • My Dundee
    • ctil

    What is Qwickly? Qwickly is a new tool that allows instructors to quickly post announcements on all the modules they’re involved with, and, at the start of term, make all modules available. Adding the Qwickly block to your account. On your MyDundee homepage, click “Add Block”, then search for “Qwickly”,…

  • Blackboard Instructor

      • My Dundee
    • Hamish Loveday

    This is the app for instructors. Unlike Mobile Learn, there are separate apps for instructors and students, so staff who are also students on some modules will need to download both apps. (Though note that the site is now more responsive than it was, so you may be able to…

  • Blackboard App for Instructors

    • 14/08/2017
      • My Dundee
    • Emma

    Blackboard have now released their app for Instructors. This is a summary of the key points, for further instructions, please see Blackboard for Instructors (help page) Students – there is also a new app for students, more on that soon.

  • My Dundee: Module Refresh (resolved)

    • 28/07/2017
      • My Dundee
    • Hamish Loveday

    We are currently rolling over modules in MyDundee. Just to remind you, this is the process by which we create new modules, either rolled over from the previous year, or empty ones, for those that prefer to significantly update their modules. This does take some time, as we have to…

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