• Resolved: Turnitin issue – degraded performance

    Update: (06/04/22 at 14:50): Turnitin have confirmed that there was overall service degradation between April 4th 17:30 – April 6th 12:40 BST. This consisted of overall slowness, issues saving comments and Quickmarks, and an “Pool “ev-app-yang-POOL” error message. Within that time frame, from approximately 11:-00 – 13:00 BST, there was…

  • Changes to Enterprise Survey set up

    If you or your school uses Enterprise Surveys, please read this process update closely and share it with any relevant person in you school! What is it? This is a tool provided by Blackboard (My Dundee) to deploy anonymous end of module surveys. Check out our guide for more information!…

  • Resolved – Important Turnitin issue

    Update (15 March 2022) Turnitin have now resolved this issue, and the Feedback Release Date will determine when marks and feedback are released to students, as it should. You can review Turnitin’s Status Update here. In the new release of Blackboard which is due to go live today, 03 March…

  • Invalid or Missing state error in Turnitin

    Update: Turnitin has informed us that the following should fix this error. If the error still persists please log a call with help4u with FAO CTIL in the title. The error message “Sorry, we could not process your request. Invalid or missing state” can usually be resolved by editing your…

  • Lecture Capture and Improving Teaching Facilities

    Access to reliable and appropriately equipped teaching facilities have been an ongoing concern for the teaching community, especially as we increase our in-person activities. Something as simple as a malfunctioning visualizer or not being able to access in-room support can have a big impact on teaching activities, stressing the lecturer…

  • Resolved – My Dundee Issue Searching for Modules

    Update: Blackboard released a fix for this issue on Friday 11th February 2022 – the issue should now be resolved. An issue has been reported with My Dundee where searching for a module is triggering rapid page flickering until the browser refreshes. Blackboard are aware of the issue and it…

  • Resolved – Turnitin Issues

    Update: All issues resolved as of 14:45 GMT on 08/2/22. Today (08/02/2022), Turnitin experienced a brief window when users may have experienced one of the errors below. Between approximately 11:30 and 11:50 GMT, users could not upload assignments (students directly uploading assignments and staff uploading assignments on behalf of students)….

  • Turnitin new feature – exclude templates

    Turnitin has recently added a new feature you can use when you create your assignments. In the Optional settings area of the set-up, you can find a section for Exclude assignment template. You can either upload a file or add text directly by using the ‘Create Custom Template’ button. We…

  • Hybrid Update #10.5

    A quick update this evening. The fabulous Jonathan Walker (Staff) and our install partners, Streamtec, have completed the weekend work updating rooms ready for tomorrow.  I’m pleased to say that we have now upgraded 23 teaching rooms and three lecture theatres to the Dual-Mode design. You can find the full updated…

  • Hybrid Update #10: What to expect next week

    An enormous amount of effort is happening in the background to meet our previously revised target of having 22 Dual-Mode rooms ready for next week, with the remaining 28 upgraded by the end of January. In today’s post, I want to give you a quick progress update, let you know what to do if you are booked into a Hybrid Teaching Space in the next few weeks and link to our new room tracking page so you can keep track of our progress.