• Turnitin Service Alert – Now resolved

    We have just received the following message from Turnitin. You may have experienced issues viewing submissions within the Feedback Studio. This was down to a service disruption affecting the performance of Turnitin and Turnitin UK. The service was affected between 8 and 10.40 this morning. NOTE: They advise that you…

  • Advance Notice: Safe Assign Maintenance (Monday April 2nd 8am – 2pm )

    We have been informed by Blackboard that Safe Assign will be unavailable between 8 AM and 2 PM (UK time) on April 2nd. [Note: This was the maintenance that was originally scheduled for March 8th] Please see below for the full message from Blackboard. On April 2nd 2018 from approximately…

  • Turnitin iOS app (for staff) – UPDATED

    IMPORTANT: Before updating the app, ensure that you have synced all papers that are on the iPad.

    If you are already a user of the app, and have added one or more My Dundee modules to your ‘Class List’ in the app, you can continue to mark submissions on those modules without updating the app (for the time being)

  • Questionmark OnDemand EU – Scheduled Maintenance

    Questionmark OnDemand EU – Scheduled Maintenance (ondemand.questionmark.eu)

    We are writing to inform you about upcoming maintenance of the Questionmark OnDemand EU platform (ondemand.questionmark.eu) and advise of potential for downtime/disruption to the service.

    Maintenance window begins: Saturday, 17-Mar-2018, 7:00 GMT
    Maintenance window ends: Saturday, 17-Mar-2018, 13:00 GMT

  • (Resolved) Issue taking Questionmark OnDemand tests on My Dundee

    Update 28/02/2018: This issue has now been resolved and Questionmark tests are running again. Users have reported an issue when access Questionmark OnDemand tests on My Dundee. Effected students receive a message saying “Sorry, an unexpected error has occurred, please try again”. This issue has been reported to UoD IT who…

  • Advance Notice: Safe Assign Maintenance (Thur March 8th 8am – 2pm)

    We have been informed by Blackboard that Safe Assign will be unavailable between 8 AM and 2 PM (UK time) on March 8th. Please see below for the full message from Blackboard. On March 8, 2018 from approximately 3 AM EST to 9 AM EST, Blackboard will be performing scheduled…

  • Advance notice: Turnitin Scheduled maintenance. (Sat 17th March – 4pm-10pm)

    Turnitin  have announced a service period on Saturday March 17th between 4pm and 10pm (UK time) The following is the message that we received from them: Scheduled Maintenance We’re just dropping you a note to let you know that the following Turnitin services will be unavailable on March 17, 2018:…

  • New Tool: Qwickly Jot Assignment.

    Some staff will have seen the Qwickly tool on the My Dundee landing page, which is useful for making modules available, and posting announcements to multiple modules. We now have the Qwickly Jot Assignments – which will let staff upload images for students to mark up. There is more information (and…

  • Questionmark OnDemand Issue (resolved)

    Update (21/02/2018): This has been resolved. We are working with the vendor to identify the cause in order to improve future stability. Update (20/02/2018): This has been declared an major incident by UoD IT. You can follow the issue on the IT Blog. We’re experiencing issues with the Questionmark OnDemand…

  • Academic Integrity event.

    On Friday 9th Feb, Dundee played host to one of 3 Academic Integrity roadshows run by Turnitin. The day focussed on contract cheating, a phrase coined by Lancaster and Clarke.