• Changing module page label from ‘Courses’ to ‘Modules’

    To help newly arriving students navigate My Dudee more easily and align the interface with the University’s common nomenclature, we have decided to replace the label ‘Course’ with ‘Module’ on the main menu.

  • Error creating a Journal in My Dundee – Temporary Fix

    Temporary fix Blackboard are still looking at finding a solution for the existing issue that staff have with a difficulty creating a journal. We have now found a work around that will help you to get ready for the start of term. The process is this: In your Sandbox:  Create…

  • Best Tools for Student Reflective Journals – 2020

    We have several tools which are ideal for student’s reflective work from discussion boards, to journals, from blogs to wikis. Read about them below to decide which tool is right for the needs of your assignment.

  • Reading Lists/Resource Lists

    The LLC are keen to support everyone currently preparing, sharing, or linking Resource Lists for the coming academic year. This email is intended to signpost the help available and provide information for common tasks.

  • YuJa videos not being captioned: Resolved

    In the last two weeks, we had intermittent issues resulting in videos being added to YuJa not being auto captioned. This only affected a small number of videos (~30) and has now been resolved.

    Read this post for more details.

  • Turnitin Service has been restored

    This information is being mirrored in the UODIT status pages: www.uodit.info We do not anticipate any further issues and user submissions made before the outage should be accessible again. As with any issue like this, please let us know if you experience any continuing issues.

  • ABC Design Workshops: An exploration

    As with digital education teams across all Universities, here in CTIL we’re helping staff to adjust to a very different way of teaching in 20/21. While we have been wanting to support staff to make greater use of technology to support learning – it’s now been thrust upon us –…

  • CTIL Update 27/03/2020

    This message was emailed to all Instructors 27/03/2020     read online 27 March 2020 CTIL Update 27/03/2020 Centre for Technology & Innovation in Learning   Dear Colleagues The reliability of services is more important than ever, so I want to give everyone an update on two of our key…

  • Reading List Link Issue

    We’ve been receiving reports that the Reading List link is not working correctly in some classes. What’s happening? For a few courses, the Reading List link in the menu is disabled and there is no option to show or hide the link to students. What’s next? We’re working with IT…