• Office Mix – discontinued … but the tools are coming to Powerpoint

    We know that a number of staff have been working with Office Mix – however, it is being discontinued. If you have any presentations that were developed using mix, please see Microsoft’s information about migrating your presentations. (You may find that you have to sign in several times to complete…

  • Blackboard Webinar – New Box view.

    NOTE: This is aimed at those staff using Blackboard’s assignment tool, not those using Turnitin for marking and feedback. It also does not affect those using Moodle marking tools for some medical courses.  As you may know, Blackboard’s marking tool has changed; this was driven by a change in the…

  • Questionmark On Demand Access Denied Error

    Unfortunately we are currently experiencing an issue with our instance of Questionmark On Demand at the moment. When logging in using the standard URL (https://ondemand.questionmark.eu/home/607766/) users may be presented with an ‘Access Denied’ error message. We have reported this to our vendor and they have raised this as a fault…

  • Questionmark On Demand Maintenance 17 February 2018

    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-Feb-2018, 7:00 GMT • Maintenance window ends: Saturday, 17-Feb-2018, 11:00 GMT Potential for…

  • Learning X – Innovative assessments.

    Join us in a Learning X, looking at innovation in assessment. We’ll be looking at ideas for staff to use various technologies to support innovative approaches to assessment; for example, if you already get your students to write a reflective piece – how about the option to get them to…

  • Questionmark On Demand – Urgent: Emergency Maintenance Tonight (18-Jan-2018) at 23:30 GMT

    Please be advised that Emergency Maintenance with potential for disruption to the Questionmark OnDemand EU (ondemand.questionmark.eu) service will occur this evening. The maintenance will occur during the following 30-minute window: Emergency Maintenance window BEGINS: Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 23:00 GMT Emergency Maintenance window ENDS: Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 23:30 GMT Purpose of the Maintenance A…

  • My Dundee and Turnitin Training

    CTIL are offering some bookable training sessions for My Dundee and Turnitin . These sessions are bookable via Eventbrite – and are limited to 15 people per session. My Dundee. An Introduction for staff who’re new to My Dundee (or who feel they need a reminder of the basics). We’ll…

  • #CreativeHE

    #CreativeHE is a group of educators who look at creative ideas for Learning & Teaching in HE. It’s grown from Manchester Metropolitan University’s PGCert, and now it operates as a community and discussion space  to enable wider discussions and collaborations which will be of value for all of us. To get…

  • My Dundee upgrade: Goodbye Crocodoc, Hello New Box View

    As you will have seen, we have recently upgraded our version of Blackboard, which is what powers My Dundee. While most of the changes were bug fixes, the one that may affect some staff is the change from using Crocodoc to annotate work that was submitted via the Blackboard assignment…