My Dundee Blog

  • Questionmark On Demand (Update)

    • 08/11/2017
      • Questionmark
    • Hamish Loveday

    The project to upgrade Questionmark (the University’s primary quiz tool for formative and summative assessment) to the cloud based ‘OnDemand’ service is continuing after a previously reported delay. The project is on course to move be completed after a controlled transition by February 2018 with formative assessments starting to be…

  • Uploading rubrics and grading forms to Turnitin.

    • 10/10/2017
      • Turnitin
    • ctil

    If you want to use rubrics and grading forms with Turnitin there are a number of stages: Add a rubric to your library: This could be through creating a rubric OR uploading one someone else created. In either case, the rubric is attached to you, so you’ll only have to…

  • Move to Questionmark On-Demand

    • 06/10/2017
      • Questionmark
    • Hamish Loveday

    As you may know, we have been in the process of transitioning our Questionmark service from the self-hosted ‘Perception’ to the new cloud-hosted ‘On-Demand’ (OD) service. This project was meant to be completed over the summer but was unexpectedly delayed. The delay has now been resolved and we are able to move forward once again. Read on for details of the new project schedule..

  • 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…

  • Learning Spaces Pilot

    • 12/09/2017
      • Learning Spaces
    • Hamish Loveday

    Learning Spaces is a new pilot that will explore how we can deliver WordPress blogs to our learning and teaching community. Where many professional services across the university already exploit a supported WordPress environment to communicate online (UoDIT, Business Transformation), schools have previously been unable to access this service and…

  • Panopto: Video Management Pilot

      • Panopto
    • Hamish Loveday

    A key tool in an institution’s e-learning kit is video – the ability to easily capture, edit, share and control video content is increasingly common in our lives and in the lives of our students, and so it should be in education. To that end, we have purchased Panopto in…

  • 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…

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