Category: CTIL

My Dundee monthly update (Ver. 3900.0.0)

Blackboard Learn, the platform that My Dundee is based on, was upgraded* to version 3900.0.0 last night. Key changes include (taken from Blackboard help pages): Embed Office 365 documents: In this release, students and instructors can embed Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files as well as Microsoft Stream videos from SharePoint into the rich text…

Collaborate Urgent Maintenance: Tonight, 00:00-04:00GMT

Blackboard will be performing system maintenance on Collaborate that may affect anyone using the service during this time. The work will be done over a 4 hour period between 0000hrs (midnight) and 0400hrs (GMT) (Friday 6th Nov 2020). IMPORTANT NOTE: We also strongly recommend avoiding using Collaborate Ultra throughout these maintenance windows due to the database maintenance…

“MoCo” Meeting summary

Blackboard have several interest groups in their Community Site. One that I attend when is “MoCo“, which covers both the mobile app and collaborate. The September meeting , covered several useful points. Feel free to watch it (it’s an hour long), but if you’d like a summary… Polls and Reporting – if you’d like to download the…