At the same time as upgrading the main Blackboard set of tools, we also upgraded the integration that we have between My Dundee and Turnitin. The key improvement for staff is that we now have the ability for staff (not students) to see a list of all of the Turnitin submission points in all Modules…
Welcome back!
and, welcome to all new staff and students. We have recently updated the software behind My Dundee, which has brought a few new features, there’s more about them, and some of the upcoming training in other posts on the blog. …
My Dundee Maintenance Completed Successfully
The maintenance of My Dundee has been completed successfully. We have tested the system but if you do encounter any issues, please report them at help4u.dundee.ac.uk Our thanks to our colleagues at UoD IT for another efficient upgrade procedure. Best Regards Centre for Technology and Innovation in Learning (CTIL)…
Turnitin – Planned maintenance – Dec 27th (from 4pm)
Turnitin have planned maintenance that will affect all Turnitin users between 4pm on December 27th to 1am on the 28th. Please see http://www.turnitin.com/self-service/system-status.html for more details including times in other areas of the world. This includes a link to their status twitter feed, which covers information about both planned and unplanned downtime….
My Dundee Maintenance – 5th January 2018
What’s Happening My Dundee will be taken offline for maintenance on the morning of the 5th of January 2018. It is planned that the service will be restored on the same day, though there will be an at risk period that extends to Monday the 8th. At Risk? Although the maintenance period should be limited to the…
Turnitin – Academic Integrity Day.
Turnitin’s annual User Summit was held on October 19th in Newcastle. They have noted that they are trying to address more of the needs of UK HE, and the keynote was by Kerr Gardiner , discussing the main themes from his consultation with a range of UK Universities (including Dundee). Then followed the obligatory technical presentation, on the…
Questionmark On Demand (Update)
The project to upgrade Questionmark (the University’s primary quiz tool for formative and summative assessment) to the cloud based ‘OnDemand’ service is continuing after a previously reported delay. The project is on course to move be completed after a controlled transition by February 2018 with formative assessments starting to be moved from the end of…
Turnitin – Service issue – Resolved.
Turnitin issued the following service announcement at 3:32pm today. TurnitinUK experienced an outage between 13:50 and 14:55 GMT. The service is now accessible again. UK users accessing our service via an integration may have been affected over this period. Users of the Turnitin.com service would not have been affected. We apologise for any inconvenience caused….
Online Exams – Student Drop-in Sessions
If you’re going to be sitting essay-based online exams, you’ll be using ExamOnline. Athough ExamOnline is simple to use, it’s a good idea to familiarise yourself with the software before your exam. Knowing what to expect means that you can get off to a confident start on exam day. Drop in sessions will cover how…
Students: Understanding your Turnitin Report.
We have set up 3 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 to 30 people in each one – they’re all in the Main Library. You will need to…