• Hybrid Update #4: Hands-on sessions, documentation & mobile kits

    In todays update, we’re pleased to announce some bookable hands-on time for Capture & Stream and the release of some early documentation for that teaching mode. We’re doubly pleased to be able to announce that we are moving forward with the provision of mobile Capture & Stream kits that will…

  • Hybrid Teaching 101: Capture & Stream experience webinar

    By popular demand, we’re ready to offer two live webinar sessions looking on our first hybrid teaching mode, ‘Capture & Stream’. They will walk you through the workflow, highlighting and demonstrating the key steps and offering a chance to ask questions and offer feedback. To find out more and sign…

  • Hybrid Update #3: I made a vlog!

    In this week’s post we start off with some key updates and answer some questions we’ve been getting this week. We also have details of our communication plan, an update on the project team’s current activities and we’ve attached a copy of last week’s project board update. Finally, as a…

  • Hybrid Teaching Update #2: Early progress

    I am off on leave for 2 weeks but I wanted to get a quick post out before I’m dragged away from the computer by my children. By popular demand you’ll find the list of 50 rooms that have been earmarked for hybrid listed below. I’ve also added a little…

  • Hybrid Teaching Update #1: Lights, cameras, action!

    As lockdown restrictions ease and we tentatively reintroduce in-person sessions to our teaching, Hybrid has become a hot topic. It offers a much-needed flexibility to run sessions with in-person and online students simultaneously, a key advance as we enhance the experience of our students in a continually changing world. In this message, I am pleased to offer some initial detail of this initiative and our plans for this new area of teaching capability going forward.

  • Name change: ‘Content & Tools’ and ‘LTI item’ is now ‘External apps’

    This is a minor change but from the 23rd of June the menu items in your My Dundee modules and Organisations titled ‘Content & Tools’ and ‘LTI item’ will both be changed to ‘External Apps’. This functionality allows users to add content from external apps such as Turnitin and YuJa….

  • A Reminder about Blackboard Assignment Marking Workflows

    When marking Blackboard tests/assignments it is recommend that you annotate using the in-built annotation tools in My Dundee.  If you do encounter any issues with this, please raise a ticket via Help4u. If you need to mark offline, we recommend staff use Adobe Acrobat Reader to annotate/create comments.   Students should…