We have a training session for staff available on Community development in My Dundee. We’ll be looking at Collaborate Ultra Blackboard discussions and blogs. When it might be appropriate to move beyond Blackboard tools. November 15th 2-4pm. Booking link
We have arranged 2 Turnitin Training sessions for staff, which are bookable via Eventbrite. Marking Introduction: Primarily for those who’ve not used Turnitin before November 8th 2-4pm: Booking link Advanced marking We are expecting you to be familiar with the basics of using Turnitin, and will look at using rubrics,…
If you have a newer iOS device, and have updated it to iOS11, have set your default language to Chinese or Korean, the Blackboard App has issues with freezing. The following is taken from Blackboard’s issues pages: The Blackboard app is ‘freezing’ on a black screen on some late-model Apple…
Or would you like to become one? In the last learning X, we looked at investigating and developing your Learning Footprint. In a related theme, we’d like to invite you to join with us in working through an Open Learn course, The Digital Scholar. The course is developed by Martin…
If you want to use rubrics and grading forms with Turnitin there are a number of stages: Add a rubric to your library: This could be through creating a rubric OR uploading one someone else created. In either case, the rubric is attached to you, so you’ll only have to…
As you may know, we have been in the process of transitioning our Questionmark service from the self-hosted ‘Perception’ to the new cloud-hosted ‘On-Demand’ (OD) service. This project was meant to be completed over the summer but was unexpectedly delayed. The delay has now been resolved and we are able to move forward once again. Read on for details of the new project schedule..
On Friday (06/10/2017) your My Dundee tabs will look a little different.
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….
Staff and students – have you investigated your learning footprint?