Category: CTIL

Important change on the 4th June: A new way to navigate My Dundee 

At the start of June, we’ll be updating My Dundee to incorporate Blackboard’s new Ultra Base Navigation. This sleek new interface provides a modern look and feel and will save you time with simpler workflows and easier access to important information. The change will only affect the main navigation of My Dundee: it won’t affect modules or organisations, and won’t require you to do or change anything unless we notify you directly. Please read on for further details….

Dev Diaries #7: Digital Campus Roadmap 2019

The Digital Campus is the collection of platforms, tools and services that make up our elearning provision at the University of Dundee. We’ve coined this particular term to reflect our long term goal of moving beyond the simple delivery of tools to create a connected online environment to support education and education related activities across the university….

Turnitin – Change which QuickMark sets you can see

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 from within Feedback Studio –…

Digital Landscapes: Resident or Visitor?

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 very familiar with the terms,…

(resolved) ‘Student Attainment’ tool no longer available in My Dundee

This functionality has now been partially restored throu a new development in EVision. See https://learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk/ctil/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 clarity, these photographs are taken…

My Dundee Upgrade: End of Temporary Service & Completion of Upgrade

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….

My Dundee Upgrade: Temporary service is now available

You can now access the temporary provision of My Dundee at the usual URL: my.dundee.ac.uk. This service will remain available over the winter closure until we are ready to bring the upgraded instance back online in the new year. Note that this temporary provision is in place for reference purposes only. There are limitations to what users can do and the service may be taken down at any time if required….