How to prepare for the end of life of Flash…
RIP Flash!
- Author By Emma
- Publication date 16/05/2019
- Categories: CTIL, My Dundee, Support
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My Dundee is changing – Tuesday 4 June
This message was emailed to all My Dundee users on 9 May 2019 Just to remind you that on Tuesday 4 June, My Dundee will be getting a new look. This will apply a new, intuitive interface to the main navigation elements of My Dundee without affecting modules – you will not need to do…
Blackboard app – updates coming soon
Updates for both iOS and Android users Students may have noticed that grades in the Marks area of the Blackboard app are colour coded; however, the colour coding doesn’t match Dundee grading scales – they’re based on US grading scales – which means that marks have to be above 92% to appear to be the…
Turnitin – degraded performance
Turnitin in report that there were issues overnight. The areas affected were: Turnitin Paper Submissions, Turnitin Feedback Studio Grading Access. They state: “During this time, you may experience issues when trying to submit and may also find that Similarity Reports are unavailable. We invite you to track the progress of this disruption while we work…
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 quickly find – it’s not…
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 the regular process of enhancement….
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, please check if you are…
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 the impact on education, and…
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 drop-down menu). Step 2: Select…