• Name change: ‘Content & Tools’ and ‘LTI item’ is now ‘External apps’

    This is a minor change but from the 23rd of June the menu items in your My Dundee modules and Organisations titled ‘Content & Tools’ and ‘LTI item’ will both be changed to ‘External Apps’. This functionality allows users to add content from external apps such as Turnitin and YuJa….

  • Digital Education Newsletter Vol 3 Iss 2

    21 June 2021 In this issue, you’ll find information on module creation, the baseline, guides in My Dundee 101, and you’ll get the opportunity to give a shout-out to colleagues who need a bit of public appreciation. You’ll also see some articles on making your videos short, preparing your students…

  • CTIL’s kind words

    Learn about the best, under-rated way to use Microsoft Forms – as an anonymous way to compliment your colleagues!

  • Digital Education Newsletter Vol 3 Iss 1

    7 June 2021 In this issue, you’ll learn about the module creation process, see some figures about the number of exams, and learn a bit more about Iain Gillespie and what’ dizygotic’ means. CTIL Updates We’re busy working on module creation and making sure our new system is working smoothly….

  • QAA Annual Conference 2021 – Quality, Resilience, Innovation and Enhancement

    Universities have shown themselves to be flexible and resilient over the past year, and we should learn from this as we come out of the pandemic and look to our learning and teaching going forward. We need to help students make better choices when faced with the pressures of studying by providing the right support, and not creating a catastrophe from making the wrong decision.

  • A Reminder about Blackboard Assignment Marking Workflows

    When marking Blackboard tests/assignments it is recommend that you annotate using the in-built annotation tools in My Dundee.  If you do encounter any issues with this, please raise a ticket via Help4u. If you need to mark offline, we recommend staff use Adobe Acrobat Reader to annotate/create comments.   Students should…