In the last two weeks, we had intermittent issues resulting in videos being added to YuJa not being auto captioned. This only affected a small number of videos (~30) and has now been resolved.
Read this post for more details.
We’ve been receiving reports that the Reading List link is not working correctly in some classes. What’s happening? For a few courses, the Reading List link in the menu is disabled and there is no option to show or hide the link to students. What’s next? We’re working with IT…
As an instructor, you may have found yourself wishing you could show a film from Netflix in your classroom. Until recently, Netflix has not allowed their content to be shared in public spaces, even for educational purposes. Netflix have now opened up some of their original content to be screened…
Update: We are pleased to advise that service has been restored. We’ve fixed it! Due to unforeseen circumstances, you may have been unable to view Similarity Reports in Turnitin and Turnitin UK today. We are pleased to advise that service has been restored. We encountered a disruption between the following…
CTIL NEWSLETTER End of Term: Everyone Ready for a Nice Nap Hi everyone! We hope everyone has had a good term, and is ready for some rest over the upcoming break. We’ve been busy at CTIL up until the very end of term. We’ll keep this month’s update short and…
Here are my brief notes from the last DLF meeting. Dates for diaries for next DLF meetings: Thursday 5 December 2019 14-16.00 hrs Dalhousie 2S14 Tuesday 10 March 2020 14-16.00 hrs Dalhousie 2S15 Thursday 14 May 2020 14-16.00 hrs Dalhousie 2S15 Hope to see you at one or all of…
We have several tools which are ideal for students’ reflective work, from discussion boards, to journals, to wikis. Read about them below to decide which tool is right for the needs of your assignment.
As previously announced, Panopto is being decommissioned in favour of our new Video service: YuJa. We had already removed access to Panopto (30/08/2019) and the service will now be closed completely on 19/10/2019. This should not affect any users as they should already have moved to YuJa, so this notice is just for information.
We’ve just been told about a competition that you might be interested in – taking photos of monuments for Wikimedia. Here’s the message that was sent to us: Happy Thursday everyone, As it’s now September, it’s Wiki Loves Monuments – time for us all to get out there with our cameras…
We’ve been receiving reports users enable to access Turnitin through My Dundee, whether for marking or submitting. Turnitin is an externally provided service so we have raised it with them and will update this post when we know more.