We have a training session for staff available on Community development in My Dundee. We’ll be looking at Collaborate Ultra Blackboard discussions and blogs. When it might be appropriate to move beyond Blackboard tools. November 15th 2-4pm. Booking link
We have arranged 2 Turnitin Training sessions for staff, which are bookable via Eventbrite. Marking Introduction: Primarily for those who’ve not used Turnitin before November 8th 2-4pm: Booking link Advanced marking We are expecting you to be familiar with the basics of using Turnitin, and will look at using rubrics,…
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…
OPD, supported by CTIL, are offering My Dundee training sessions, the next 1 is: Wednesday 15th November: 10am – noon. This session will cover the basics of adding and editing content on My Dundee. We hope to have time at the end to look at some more advanced features, depending…
Those of you who have been using Collaborate Ultra for some time, will have spotted they regularly introduce new features. Over the last year, these have included aspects such as increasing the maximum number of participants in a session (to 500); permitting private chat between participants; allowing breakout groups; including…
Get ready for the start of term! Drop in sessions for staff setting up My Dundee and Turnitin from August 28th to September 8th.