When marking in Blackboard and/or Turnitin, you’ll find that you have to enter them as a number, rather than being able to directly enter the alphanumeric grade (e.g. A4) Grading Schema. In order to convert numbers to alphanumeric, you need to have the correct grading schema in your module. To check to see if you…
Student Support for turnitin.
We have created 2 videos for students to support their use of Turnitin. How to upload your work to Turnitin How to interpret your similarity score. You may find it useful to have some general introductory information – suggested text is below. You are required to submit your coursework via a tool called Turnitin. This…
Creating and Using Groups in Original courses
Why have groups? There are a number of reasons you may wish to use groups in MyDundee. User Management. For example, large classes with multiple tutors may want to have an easy way for tutors to contact those students in their tutorial groups. It may also be that those tutors are marking coursework from their…
Extracting Grades from Grade Centre
You may need to extract the grades from the Grade Centre for entering to eVision. Note that at present, it is still necessary to manually enter the data, we are not yet able to upload data electronically to SITS. 1: The grade centre is accessed from the Course Management section of the left hand menu. In…
Qwickly
What is Qwickly? Qwickly is a new tool that allows instructors to quickly post announcements on all the modules they’re involved with, and, at the start of term, make all modules available. Adding the Qwickly block to your account. On your MyDundee homepage, click “Add Block”, then search for “Qwickly”, and add it. You should…
Blackboard Instructor
This is the app for instructors. Unlike Mobile Learn, there are separate apps for instructors and students, so staff who are also students on some modules will need to download both apps. (Though note that the site is now more responsive than it was, so you may be able to achieve what you want to…