While many staff have found the QuickMarks feature of Turnitin invaluable, one comment that many have made is that there are too many default sets. Turnitin have now enabled markers’ ability to customise which sets they can see. A couple of points to help you: Make sure you customise them…
Natalie and I recently ran a workshop at Dundee and Angus College, with a group of staff from across the college – it was largely based on Dave White’s workshops looking at digital residents and visitors. Initially, we revisited Prensky’s digital native/immigrant work with them; like so many, they were…
Delayed emails sent from My Dundee are belatedly arriving to users and are often marked as spam by Outlook. Update (09/01/2019): The long term solution has been put in place and we do not anticipate further issues. Update (11/01/2019): Although the solution is now in place for this, users continue…
This functionality has now been partially restored throu a new development in EVision. See https://ctil.dundee.ac.uk//2019/03/07/class-photos-in-evision/ for details What’s Happening? A tool called ‘Student Attainment’ has been used in the past by some instructors to see ID photos of the students enrolled in their modules has stopped working since the upgrade (for…
We had a few people report issues with the links on the front page tab in My Dundee, mainly eVision. When clicked, some links displayed various errors rather than taking you to the intended site.
We’ve had a small number of users reporting login difficulties after the upgrade. If you’re experiencing this, please read through the following scenarios to try and resolve the problem yourself before reporting it to Help4u. Scenario 1: You are using the Blackboard App (iOS or Android) If you are having difficulty…
If you’re an instructor and want to change the colours of your module menu in My Dundee. Follow these steps Go to the Course Management menu(bottom left hand menu) Choose ‘Customisation’ followed by ‘Teaching Style’ Scroll down to ‘Select Menu Style Choose the desired colours for background and text Note…
We’re pleased to announce that the upgrade of My Dundee has been completed ahead of schedule. This post lists some of the changes that come with the upgrade.
Do you want to make a difference to Social Justice? The Social Justice Challenge is a great 5 week opportunity for students to work on real life issues with local organisations. Applications is open now until 10 December for the January challenge event. Read more on our site
Due to early completion of work by our vendor, Blackboard, we are able to bring forward the deadline for finishing the My Dundee upgrade to Friday 4 Jan 2018. To facilitate this we will be removing access to the temporary provision at 09:30 (GMT) on Thursday 3 Jan 2019 (tomorrow). There will be no access to My Dundee during this transition period.