My Dundee Blog
Announcing the Integrated Video Project
In recent years, we have made significant gains in enhancing our video capabilities to better support student learning. From lecture capture and hybrid delivery to the production of rich asynchronous video content, the university has been committed to leveraging technology to improve the learning experience. However, we acknowledge that there is still much work to be done, and so i'm pleased to announce the launch of the Integrated Video Project. This initiative aims to build on our existing progress and take our video services to the next level, with a focus on producing a more capable and reliable service for ...
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Service Announcements (resolved)
All our systems are working as expected at the moment but watch this space for future issues and announcements. We're working on new ways to communicate the status of our services and we're starting off with a specific announcements feed that will appear on the front page of My Dundee. We will use this feed to announce when anything is wrong with service like My Dundee or Turnitin, as well as notices of future disruptions such as service downtime. We're ... read more
Learning Footprints
Staff and students - have you investigated your learning footprint? ... read more
Apps for My Dundee
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 iPod Touch©* Download on your Android™ Device Download on your Windows® Device Blackboard Instructor (staff) Download on your Apple® device Download on your Android™ device *if you are using an ... read more
Turnitin Training
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 on marking assessments, so aimed at academics and support tutors. To book, please see OPD's website ... read more
My Dundee Training
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 on the needs of the group. To book, please see OPD's website ... read more
Third Party Cookies
Certain features in My Dundee, such as Turnitin or Campus Pack require the users’ browsers to be set to accept third-party cookies in order to maintain functionality. A cookie is a small file sent from a website and stored on the user’s computer while the user is browsing. They are used for a number of purposes, in particular storing whether or not you’re logged into a particular site. In this case, Turnitin / CampusPack need to know you’re logged in to ... read more
Collaborate Ultra: September update
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 the chat in the recording - as well as various bandwidth and other back end developments. The September update includes security updates. The main impact of this is that once ... read more
Learning Spaces Pilot
Learning Spaces is a new pilot that will explore how we can deliver WordPress blogs to our learning and teaching community. Where many professional services across the university already exploit a supported WordPress environment to communicate online (UoDIT, Business Transformation), schools have previously been unable to access this service and have needed to make their own arrangements if they wanted to use WordPress with all the inherent security and data protection risks. To address this, we have purchased a 1 ... read more
Panopto: Video Management Pilot
A key tool in an institution's e-learning kit is video - the ability to easily capture, edit, share and control video content is increasingly common in our lives and in the lives of our students, and so it should be in education. To that end, we have purchased Panopto in order to run a 1-year pilot. What is Panopto? Panopto, like similar services, is best understood as a complete video solution. It allows staff and students to capture video content ... read more
Student Support for turnitin.
We have created 2 videos for students to support their use of Turnitin. How to upload your work to Turnitin How to interpret your similarity score. You may find it useful to have some general introductory information - suggested text is below. You are required to submit your coursework via a tool called Turnitin. This is a similarity checker, which examines your work for similarity with other work. Note that similarity in itself is not necessarily bad; for example, if ... read more
