Turnitin’s annual User Summit was held on October 19th in Newcastle. They have noted that they are trying to address more of the needs of UK HE, and the keynote was by Kerr Gardiner , discussing the main themes from his consultation with a range of UK Universities (including Dundee). Then followed the…
Turnitin issued the following service announcement at 3:32pm today. TurnitinUK experienced an outage between 13:50 and 14:55 GMT. The service is now accessible again. UK users accessing our service via an integration may have been affected over this period. Users of the Turnitin.com service would not have been affected. We…
If you’re going to be sitting essay-based online exams, you’ll be using ExamOnline. Athough ExamOnline is simple to use, it’s a good idea to familiarise yourself with the software before your exam. Knowing what to expect means that you can get off to a confident start on exam day. Drop…
We have set up 3 sessions to help you understand your similarity report from Turnitin. In this session, we’ll look at a generic report, so you don’t have to bring a report with you. The sessions are limited to 30 people in each one – they’re all in the Main…
Turnitin experienced issues yesterday. The following is their current status update. —————————————————————- Turnitin and TurnitinUK experienced a service issue between 10:40am- 11:32am PDT / 5:40pm-6:32pm GMT / 4:40am-5:32am AEDT. During this time most users (including ones using our services through an integration) would not have been able to log in,…
If you have a newer iOS device, and have updated it to iOS11, have set your default language to Chinese or Korean, the Blackboard App has issues with freezing. The following is taken from Blackboard’s issues pages: The Blackboard app is ‘freezing’ on a black screen on some late-model Apple…
Or would you like to become one? In the last learning X, we looked at investigating and developing your Learning Footprint. In a related theme, we’d like to invite you to join with us in working through an Open Learn course, The Digital Scholar. The course is developed by Martin…
Staff and students – have you investigated your learning footprint?
You can access My Dundee on your mobile device using two new apps developed by Blackboard (the system on which My Dundee is based). See below for download links to the student and instructor apps as well as for instructions and video guides. Blackboard (students) Download on your iPhone© or…
OPD, supported by CTIL, are offering Turnitin training sessions, the next 2 are: Thursday 5th October. 10am-noon This session covers setting up assessments, so will be useful for administrative staff and also those academics who set up their own assessments. Monday 6th November: 10am – noon. This session will focus…