My Dundee Blog

  • Welcome to My Dundee (students)

    • 04/09/2018
      • My Dundee
    • Hamish Loveday

    Welcome to My Dundee for the new academic year 2018/19 and a special hello to those of you who are joining us for the first time.

  • Understanding Non-Standard Modules and Enrollment Rules

    • 12/06/2018
      • My Dundee
    • Hamish Loveday

    A big part of implementing our new module creation process is sorting through the tangle of legacy processes and requirements that have built up over the years in Blackboard so we can have a more efficient, ordered platform. In this post I’m going to talk about non-standard modules, enrolment rules…

  • Important: New Module Creation Process

    • 28/05/2018
      • My Dundee
    • Hamish Loveday

    This summer, CTIL will implement a new process for creating modules in Blackboard (My Dundee) as a first step in a series of planned improvements to how we manage our digital education services. The old manual method will make way for an automated one that works on the basic principle…

  • Webinars from Blackboard

    • 03/05/2018
      • Collaborate
      • My Dundee
    • Emma

    Blackboard (the software powering My Dundee) run webinars covering a range of items of interest to users. In the past, these tended to be aimed at support teams, however, they have now started to run some aimed at those who work directly with the learners. There are 2 series that…

  • Using CampusPack Wiki (Students)

    • 26/03/2018
      • My Dundee
    • Emma

    What is a wiki? You’ve probably all used a Wiki – wikipedia is the most used wiki – but there are others. The first wiki was built by Ward Cunningham in 1994, and was designed to be a web site that is very easy to edit – you didn’t have…

  • My Dundee’s assignments, or Turnitin?

    • 23/02/2018
      • My Dundee
      • Turnitin
    • Emma

    We have two main systems that allow students to upload work to be assessed – Turnitin or My Dundee (Blackboard). While Turnitin remains the preferred option, there are some instances when My Dundee is more suitable. There are a number of reasons for recommending Turnitin generally, including improved similarity checking and a…

  • Qwickly JOT assignment

    • 20/02/2018
      • My Dundee
    • ctil

    Qwickly Jot is an assignment tool available in My Dundee. Using Qwickly Jot you can create assignments with diagrams, charts, maps and more for students to write on directly in Blackboard. This type of assignment isn’t marked by the tool – it’s one that the lecturer has to mark. Qwickly…

  • Blackboard assignments: New Box View

    • 11/01/2018
      • My Dundee
    • ctil

    This covers aspects of marking work that was submitted via Blackboard’s assignment tool. As well as some differences in the way that staff can add comments to work, the new view also supports a greater range of file types – though note that if you also want to use Safe…

  • My Dundee Maintenance Completed Successfully

    • 05/01/2018
      • My Dundee
    • Hamish Loveday

    The maintenance of My Dundee has been completed successfully. We have tested the system but if you do encounter any issues, please report them at help4u.dundee.ac.uk Our thanks to our colleagues at UoD IT for another efficient upgrade procedure. Best Regards Centre for Technology and Innovation in Learning (CTIL)

  • My Dundee Maintenance – 5th January 2018

    • 06/12/2017
      • My Dundee
    • Hamish Loveday

    What’s Happening My Dundee will be taken offline for maintenance on the morning of the 5th of January 2018. It is planned that the service will be restored on the same day, though there will be an at risk period that extends to Monday the 8th. At Risk? Although the maintenance period…

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