We are aware of an incident on My Dundee where users have been receiving announcements via email since this morning. We suspect that these emails are due to both the ’email announcement’ and ‘schedule announcement’ options being selected, causing historical announcements to be processed retroactively. This is impacting Blackboard users…
Excited to announce a session on ‘ What’s New in My Dundee for AY2425’ . This session will take you through the recent changes made along with updates from Blackboard. Session Details are as follows Date: Tuesday, 9th July 2024 Time: 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM Duration: 45 minutes, with a…
Removal of recordings in Collaborate prior to the 22/23 AY As last year, we will be removing older recordings from collaborate . This is for two main reasons – the first and most timely is that we need to reduce our overall storage footprint. The second is to set up…
When marking Blackboard tests/assignments it is recommend that you annotate using the in-built annotation tools in My Dundee. If you do encounter any issues with this, please raise a ticket via Help4u. If you need to mark offline, we recommend staff use Adobe Acrobat Reader to annotate/create comments. Students should…
Enhance your module. Enhance your Module is a My Dundee Module, that will encourage you to think about how you get more out of the online learning environment in your My Dundee modules. Designed to be primarily self directed, it guides you through developing a new module to ensure your…
CTIL NEWSLETTER MOOC: Massive Open Online Course Massively Successful Hello everyone! In November’s CTIL Newsletter, you’ll find out about the University’s ALT (Association of Learning Technology) membership, get some updates on My Dundee, the Creative Media Team, and our Online Exam Team. You’ll also get to learn a bit about…
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…
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…
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…