• CTIL Closed over the Festive Season

    The Centre for Technology and Innovation in Learning (CTIL) is closed for the winter holidays. We will not be able to respond to emails or phone calls between 12:00pm, 22/12/2018 and 09:00am, 03/01/2018. Please note that My Dundee will be down for maintenance on the 5th of January, 2018. Read…

  • Turnitin – Planned maintenance – Dec 27th (from 4pm)

    Turnitin have planned maintenance that will affect all Turnitin users between 4pm on December 27th  to 1am on the 28th. Please see http://www.turnitin.com/self-service/system-status.html for more details including times in other areas of the world. This includes a link to their status twitter feed, which covers information about both planned and unplanned…

  • My Dundee Maintenance – 5th January 2018

    What’s Happening My Dundee will be taken offline for maintenance on the morning of the 5th of January 2018. It is planned that the service will be restored on the same day, though there will be an at risk period that extends to Monday the 8th. At Risk? Although the maintenance period…

  • IRRODL – Latest Issue.

    Staff may already know about the IRRODL (International Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning ), but for those that don’t, the latest edition was published (online, and open) today. Many of the articles catch my eye, but the one I’m most interested in is The Impact of Whatsapp Use…

  • Accidentally created an extra part in Turnitin?

    It can be very easy to accidentally create a 2nd part in Turnitin – the impact can be a very worrying for staff, as it looks as if all your students have failed! If you look at the top, you’ll see a 2nd tab labelled Part 2. Click on the…

  • Turnitin – Academic Integrity Day.

    Turnitin’s annual User Summit was held on October 19th in Newcastle. They have noted that they are trying to address more of the needs of UK HE, and the keynote was by Kerr Gardiner , discussing the main themes from his consultation with a range of UK Universities (including Dundee).  Then followed the…

  • Questionmark On Demand (Update)

    The project to upgrade Questionmark (the University’s primary quiz tool for formative and summative assessment) to the cloud based ‘OnDemand’ service is continuing after a previously reported delay. The project is on course to move be completed after a controlled transition by February 2018 with formative assessments starting to be…

  • Turnitin – Service issue – Resolved.

    Turnitin issued the following service announcement at 3:32pm today. TurnitinUK experienced an outage between 13:50 and 14:55 GMT. The service is now accessible again. UK users accessing our service via an integration may have been affected over this period. Users of the Turnitin.com service would not have been affected. We…

  • Online Exams – Student Drop-in Sessions

    If you’re going to be sitting essay-based online exams, you’ll be using ExamOnline. Athough ExamOnline is simple to use, it’s a good idea to familiarise yourself with the software before your exam. Knowing what to expect means that you can get off to a confident start on exam day. Drop…