Category: Service News

My Dundee no longer supports Internet Explorer

What’s happening Blackboard Learn, the service My Dundee is based on, no longer officially supports Internet Explorer. This means that although it may continue to work for most activities, it will become increasingly unreliable as new feature and updates are added. If you encounter any issues when using My Dundee, please check if you are…

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….

Service issue: Turnitin (resolved)

Update: Turnitin reports that all services are now up and running again (16/02/2019) Message from Turnitin: We’ve fixed it! Due to an unexpected database issue, users of Turnitin and Turnitin UK may have been unable to log in,  submit or grade papers today. Users accessing Turnitin and Turnitin UK through integrations were also affected. We…

Collaborate Ultra – March update

What’s happening? Collaborate Ultra is regularly updated. The update that is scheduled for March includes (among other things) security updates that may affect users at Dundee Who’s affected? Those who use Collaborate Ultra, and the following browsers Internet Explorer 11 (the default browser for those using Windows 7 – i.e. many staff) Safari 10 on…

Delayed emails suddenly appearing from Blackboard/My Dundee

Delayed emails sent from My Dundee are belatedly arriving to users and are often marked as spam by Outlook. Update (09/01/2019): The long term solution has been put in place and we do not anticipate further issues. Update (11/01/2019): Although the solution is now in place for this, users continue to receive old messages. This is…

(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…

How to change your My Dundee Module Menu Colours

If you’re an instructor and want to change the colours of your module menu in My Dundee. Follow these steps Go to the Course Management menu(bottom left hand menu) Choose ‘Customisation’ followed by ‘Teaching Style’ Scroll down to ‘Select Menu Style Choose the desired colours for background and text Note that the default colour scheme…