My Dundee Blog

  • Posting messages from modules and organisations

    • 08/01/2021
      • CTIL
      • My Dundee
    • Laura Gauld

    Modules and organisations both allow anyone enrolled to use the ‘messages’ feature to communicate with other users enrolled in that same module/organisation. If you click on the Send an email copy to recipients, you can ensure that everyone will get a copy of the message as an email, regardless of their…

  • Archive & removal of 7-year-old content from My Dundee (2020)

    • 08/12/2020
      • CTIL
      • My Dundee
      • Service News
    • Hamish Loveday

    We are beginning work to tidy up all modules and associated content in My Dundee that is 7 years old and over. This work is being carried out to lower our data footprint in Blackboard Learn and conform to university data policy. This is a new process that will be repeated on an annual basis as part of improved backend administration procedures. Read below to find out more about what we are doing and why.

  • Collaborate attendance issue

    • 12/11/2020
      • Collaborate
      • CTIL
      • Service News
    • Laura Gauld

    What to do when students have unmarked attendance after a Collaborate session

  • My Dundee monthly update (Ver. 3900.0.0)

    • 06/11/2020
      • Collaborate
      • CTIL
      • Service News
    • Hamish Loveday

    Blackboard Learn, the platform that My Dundee is based on, was upgraded* to version 3900.0.0 last night. Key changes include (taken from Blackboard help pages): Embed Office 365 documents: In this release, students and instructors can embed Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files as well as Microsoft Stream videos from…

  • Collaborate Urgent Maintenance: Tonight, 00:00-04:00GMT

    • 05/11/2020
      • Collaborate
      • CTIL
      • Service News
    • Hamish Loveday

    Blackboard will be performing system maintenance on Collaborate that may affect anyone using the service during this time. The work will be done over a 4 hour period between 0000hrs (midnight) and 0400hrs (GMT) (Friday 6th Nov 2020). IMPORTANT NOTE: We also strongly recommend avoiding using Collaborate Ultra throughout these maintenance windows…

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