Some staff will have seen the Qwickly tool on the My Dundee landing page, which is useful for making modules available, and posting announcements to multiple modules. We now have the Qwickly Jot Assignments – which will let staff upload images for students to mark up. There is more information (and a video) on our help…
Questionmark OnDemand Issue (resolved)
Update (21/02/2018): This has been resolved. We are working with the vendor to identify the cause in order to improve future stability. Update (20/02/2018): This has been declared an major incident by UoD IT. You can follow the issue on the IT Blog. We’re experiencing issues with the Questionmark OnDemand service affecting users taking a…
Office Mix – discontinued … but the tools are coming to Powerpoint
We know that a number of staff have been working with Office Mix – however, it is being discontinued. If you have any presentations that were developed using mix, please see Microsoft’s information about migrating your presentations. (You may find that you have to sign in several times to complete the migration process) Microsoft have…
Blackboard Webinar – New Box view.
NOTE: This is aimed at those staff using Blackboard’s assignment tool, not those using Turnitin for marking and feedback. It also does not affect those using Moodle marking tools for some medical courses. As you may know, Blackboard’s marking tool has changed; this was driven by a change in the supplier than BB use. Blackboard…
Questionmark On Demand Access Denied Error
Unfortunately we are currently experiencing an issue with our instance of Questionmark On Demand at the moment. When logging in using the standard URL (https://ondemand.questionmark.eu/home/607766/) users may be presented with an ‘Access Denied’ error message. We have reported this to our vendor and they have raised this as a fault with their development team. In…
Questionmark On Demand Maintenance 17 February 2018
Questionmark OnDemand EU – Scheduled Maintenance (ondemand.questionmark.eu) We are writing to inform you about upcoming maintenance of the Questionmark OnDemand EU platform (ondemand.questionmark.eu) and advise of potential for downtime/disruption to the service. • Maintenance window begins: Saturday, 17-Feb-2018, 7:00 GMT • Maintenance window ends: Saturday, 17-Feb-2018, 11:00 GMT Potential for downtime/service disruption: During the maintenance…
Questionmark On Demand – Urgent: Emergency Maintenance Tonight (18-Jan-2018) at 23:30 GMT
Please be advised that Emergency Maintenance with potential for disruption to the Questionmark OnDemand EU (ondemand.questionmark.eu) service will occur this evening. The maintenance will occur during the following 30-minute window: Emergency Maintenance window BEGINS: Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 23:00 GMT Emergency Maintenance window ENDS: Thursday, 18-Jan-2018 23:30 GMT Purpose of the Maintenance A networking issue in our European…
Students: Understanding your Turnitin Report. UPDATED Sessions – March 7th
We have set up 2 sessions to help you understand your similarity report from Turnitin. In this session, we’ll look at a generic report, so you don’t have to bring a report with you. The sessions are limited in size – they’re all in the Main Library. You will need to sign up – the…
My Dundee and Turnitin Training
CTIL are offering some bookable training sessions for My Dundee and Turnitin . These sessions are bookable via Eventbrite – and are limited to 15 people per session. My Dundee. An Introduction for staff who’re new to My Dundee (or who feel they need a reminder of the basics). We’ll look at: Uploading files. Adding…
My Dundee upgrade: Goodbye Crocodoc, Hello New Box View
As you will have seen, we have recently upgraded our version of Blackboard, which is what powers My Dundee. While most of the changes were bug fixes, the one that may affect some staff is the change from using Crocodoc to annotate work that was submitted via the Blackboard assignment tool to using Box to…