At the same time as upgrading the main Blackboard set of tools, we also upgraded the integration that we have between My Dundee and Turnitin. The key improvement for staff is that we now have the ability for staff (not students) to see a list of all of the Turnitin…
and, welcome to all new staff and students. We have recently updated the software behind My Dundee, which has brought a few new features, there’s more about them, and some of the upcoming training in other posts on the blog.
The Centre for Technology and Innovation in Learning (CTIL) is closed for the winter holidays. We will not be able to respond to emails or phone calls between 12:00pm, 22/12/2018 and 09:00am, 03/01/2018. Please note that My Dundee will be down for maintenance on the 5th of January, 2018. Read…
Turnitin have planned maintenance that will affect all Turnitin users between 4pm on December 27th to 1am on the 28th. Please see http://www.turnitin.com/self-service/system-status.html for more details including times in other areas of the world. This includes a link to their status twitter feed, which covers information about both planned and unplanned…
Staff may already know about the IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning ), but for those that don’t, the latest edition was published (online, and open) today. Many of the articles catch my eye, but the one I’m most interested in is The Impact of Whatsapp Use…
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,…