• EBSCO E-book Academic Collection

    The EBSCO ebook  collection includes over 170,000  covering a wide selection of academic subjects, including the latest titles from the leading academic publishers and university presses, all with a user-friendly search experience. 

  • Tip of the Week: Copying text in a Turnitin Submission

    Why can’t I copy text that’s in a student submission in TII? Many staff ask how they can copy text in a student Turnitin submission to paste into the feedback – to give further information, or perhaps they want to copy a URL to follow it up. However, as markers…

  • Collaborate Ultra: March Update

    We have already posted that the March update to Collaborate Ultra will mean that you’re no longer able to use Internet Explorer for Collaborate – and that IE / older versions of Safari no longer support Blackboard anyway. What’s happening? On March 21st, Collaborate Ultra will be updated, as part of…

  • New Creative Space in the Main Library

    The CreateSpace will be a new addition in the Main Library. Based on the ground floor in Wolfson 1, the CreateSpace will be a new hub for creative working, open to all students.  The LLC has heard the call for better access to creative workspaces. Do you have a creative project…

  • My Dundee no longer supports Internet Explorer

    What’s happening Blackboard Learn, the service My Dundee is based on, no longer officially supports Internet Explorer. This means that although it may continue to work for most activities, it will become increasingly unreliable as new feature and updates are added. If you encounter any issues when using My Dundee,…

  • The WWW is 30, but what about the VLE?

    There have been several news items today celebrating the World Wide Web’s 30th birthday (well, technically, its conception was 30 years ago, the first website arrived in 1991). #Web30 is trending on Twitter, there’s a wonderful collection of images on Google Art and Culture, including this video. But what’s been…

  • Service Issue: Collaborate Ultra – Resolved

    Updated: This is now working as expected. If you have further questions, please contact help4U We are aware of an issue affecting Collaborate Ultra, and are working to investigate the reason, and to restore the service. At present, starting Collaborate Ultra results in an error message.

  • Class Photos in eVision

    This guide shows Instructors an alternative solution to view images of students in a given cohort. The most common reason for doing this is to assist staff in identifying students in large tutorial groups. [Updated 18/02/2020] Step 1: Login to eVision and select the “Resources” tile (also available via Staff Content…

  • Using video for feedback

    Reflections from Abertay Conference On Wednesday 17 October we attended the Abertay conference ‘Learning Through Co-Design’ it was a well organised event with some great content from a range of subject matter experts. Do You Even Twitch? One afternoon session that caught my eye was ‘Do You Even Twitch?’ referencing…