• December Newsletter

    CTIL NEWSLETTER End of Term: Everyone Ready for a Nice Nap Hi everyone!  We hope everyone has had a good term, and is ready for some rest over the upcoming break. We’ve been busy at CTIL up until the very end of term. We’ll keep this month’s update short and…

  • November Newsletter

    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…

  • The Herald online

    The University of Dundee now has on-campus access to The Herald, thanks to an initiative to provide free access to the heraldscotland.com website to all colleges and Universities in Scotland.

  • Distance Learning Forum meeting Thursday 5 December

    We are looking forward to seeing you at our next DLF meeting, which takes place on Thursday 5 December, 14-16.00 hrs, in Dalhousie 2S14.  This promises to be an illuminating, indeed exciting event… Firstly, we have Lindsay Donnelly, IT Communications Lead from UoDIT, giving us a short presentation on the recent…

  • Brief notes from the DLF on 1 October 2019

    Here are my brief notes from the last DLF meeting. Dates for diaries for next DLF meetings: Thursday 5 December 2019 14-16.00 hrs Dalhousie 2S14 Tuesday 10 March 2020 14-16.00 hrs Dalhousie 2S15 Thursday 14 May 2020 14-16.00 hrs Dalhousie 2S15 Hope to see you at one or all of…

  • Best Tools for Student Journals

    We have several tools which are ideal for students’ reflective work, from discussion boards, to journals, to wikis. Read about them below to decide which tool is right for the needs of your assignment.

  • Decommissioning of Panopto Service

    As previously announced, Panopto is being decommissioned in favour of our new Video service: YuJa. We had already removed access to Panopto (30/08/2019) and the service will now be closed completely on 19/10/2019. This should not affect any users as they should already have moved to YuJa, so this notice is just for information.

  • LinkedIn Learning

    The University of Dundee Library & Learning Centre subscribes to LinkedIn Learning (formerly called Lynda.com). LinkedIn Learning offers online video training in a wide range of subject areas, from software packages, to web design, training & education, career development, entrepreneurship, handling stress and anxiety, study skills, and many others. The…

  • Removal of non-standard staff accounts in My Dundee

    At the end of this semester (Sem 1, 19/20), we will be disabling all non-standard staff accounts on My Dundee. This is part of our continuing effort to meet our security obligations and ensure My Dundee remains a secure environment for our users.

  • Wiki Loves Monuments

    We’ve just been told about a competition that you might be interested in – taking photos of monuments for Wikimedia. Here’s the message that was sent to us: Happy Thursday everyone, As it’s now September, it’s Wiki Loves Monuments – time for us all to get out there with our cameras…