Academic Year 25/26 Digital Teaching Refresh Week

16–20 June 2025 | Online

To support staff preparing modules for next academic year, we’re excited to launch Digital Teaching Refresh Week – a series of online training sessions tailored to refresh your core skills and introduce new features across My Dundee, Panopto, Turnitin, and AI for educators.

This week-long series offers a mix of morning and afternoon online sessions delivered by the Educational Development team in Library Academic and Cultural Services. Whether you’re refreshing your knowledge or exploring new capabilities, there’s something for everyone.

🖥️ All sessions are held online via Microsoft Teams

📌 Take a look at the full schedule of sessions or register using the direct session links below

Session Schedule & Details

🟦 Monday, 16 June 2025

Afternoon (2–3 PM)
Session title: My Dundee – Core Skills (Refresher & Updates)
Registration link: Register here
Overview: Refresh of essential My Dundee functionality: announcements, assignments (Blackboard and TII), adaptive release, adding staff/students, and copying course content. Includes a quick intro to the new Learning Object Repository (LOR).

🟨 Tuesday, 17 June 2025

Morning (11 AM–12 PM)
Session title: Designing your course with Accessibility in mind
Registration link: Register here
Overview: Learn best practices for designing accessible and engaging content using Blackboard Ally, structured modules and multimedia tools . Linked to guidance from Disability Services.

Afternoon (2–3 PM)
Session title: Panopto Basics
Registration link: Register here
Overview: New to Panopto? Or just need a refresher? This session walks you through recording, uploading, and editing videos using the platform.

🟩 Wednesday, 18 June 2025

Morning (11 AM–12 PM)
Session title: My Dundee – Engagement & Communication Tools
Registration link: Register here
Overview: Explore group tools, discussion boards, journals, and Blackboard AI assistant to enhance online student interaction.

Afternoon (2–3 PM)
Session title: Panopto – Beyond the Basics
Registration link: Register here
Overview: Add quizzes to videos, track student engagement using Panopto Analytics, and embed external content to make your videos more interactive.

🟥 Thursday, 19 June 2025

Morning (11 AM–12 PM)
Session title: Turnitin – A Refresher
Registration link: Register here
Overview: An overview of Turnitin, creating assessments , Interpreting the similarity report, giving feedback and grades. We’ll also preview Draft Coach for students.

Afternoon (2–3 PM)
Session title: Using AI as an Educator
Registration link: Register here
Overview: Discover AI tools within My Dundee, university guidance on AI use in education, using AI as an educator.

Sessions are designed to be practical and relevant for your immediate teaching needs so we encourage you to register.

Please contact educational-development@dundee.ac.uk in case you have any further queries regarding these sessions.

Let’s get ready for academic year 2025/26 together!