Dear Colleagues Our first 100% online exam diet starts tomorrow with over 250 registered exams being delivered through My Dundee in the coming weeks. This is no small task for the academics, administrative staff, support services and – most importantly – students involved, so I wanted to update you all…
This message was emailed to all Instructors 27/03/2020 read online 27 March 2020 CTIL Update 27/03/2020 Centre for Technology & Innovation in Learning Dear Colleagues The reliability of services is more important than ever, so I want to give everyone an update on two of our key…
This message was emailed to all My Dundee Instructors 25/03/2020
We’ve been receiving reports that the Reading List link is not working correctly in some classes. What’s happening? For a few courses, the Reading List link in the menu is disabled and there is no option to show or hide the link to students. What’s next? We’re working with IT…
YuJa support for Chrome 80 version (“The Cookie Crumbling Update”) YuJa made several changes to accommodate the new Chrome 80 release, which introduced several breaking changes to most major third-party web applications. This all went well, however some UoD staff were experiencing problems when adding YuJa content from the mashup…
If we have not said this before, it may not be too late to welcome you all to the new year 2020. I am Qabirul Abdullah and have just taken over as convener from Aileen McGuigan. On behalf of Susie and all of us, I would like thank Aileen for…
As an instructor, you may have found yourself wishing you could show a film from Netflix in your classroom. Until recently, Netflix has not allowed their content to be shared in public spaces, even for educational purposes. Netflix have now opened up some of their original content to be screened…
Update: We are pleased to advise that service has been restored. We’ve fixed it! Due to unforeseen circumstances, you may have been unable to view Similarity Reports in Turnitin and Turnitin UK today. We are pleased to advise that service has been restored. We encountered a disruption between the following…
We had a great meeting on 5 December and here are my brief notes from that. I’m delighted to report that Qabirul Abdullah of Medical Education, a long-standing DLF attendee, has now taken over as co-convenor of the DLF and will be working together with Susie in that role. The next…
New Term, New Decade, New Updates Hi all, we hope everyone had a lovely festive period. At CTIL we’ve been busy gathering our breath after exams, preparing for a Java Update to My Dundee, planning some upcoming Office of Professional Development workshops, and preparing a spring-clean for our out-dated Organisations….