During the week, I attended a highly interactive workshop during the week in the Engine Shed in Stirling, lead by Sara Thomas, the Scotland Programme Coordinator for Wikimedia UK. While aimed at public library staff, I wasn’t the only person from a University there….
Updates to Feedback Studio (Turnitin)
Those of you who are observant, may have noticed a new slider button at the bottom of Feedback Studio. Turnitin have recently introduced a new high resolution view of the students paper, but this does mean it’s a larger file size, so you may find disabling the high resolution useful for papers that are loading…
Questionmark OnDemand EU – Scheduled Maintenance
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, 19-May-2018, 7:00 Maintenance window ends: Saturday, 19-May-2018, 13:00 Potential for downtime/service disruption: During the maintenance window, Questionmark OnDemand customers (and participants taking assessments) will experience service…
Recent Turnitin Issues.
As some staff have noticed, Turnitin has had a number of short lived, but annoying, periods of down time recently. They have published a letter from the CEO, looking at the recent issues and, more critically, what they are doing to mitigate issues in the future. In particular they have said: During this peak grading season,…
Questionmark OnDemand Scheduled Maintenance
Questionmark OnDemand will be updated on Saturday 21 April between 07:00 and 13:00. Impact During the time above, staff authoring assessments and students taking assessments will experience service disruption. This also includes assessments taken through MyDundee that use the Questionmark OnDemand service. Benefits This update will ensure the ongoing reliability, security, and uptime of the…
Questionmark OnDemand Issue – RESOLVED
This issue has now been resolved. We apologize for the inconvenience. Users have reported an issue when trying to access Questionmark OnDemand assessments on My Dundee. Affected students receive a message saying “The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.” This issue has been reported to UoD IT who are working…
Maple TA: Service disruption 3am-4am April 11th
In addition to the service downtime on the 12th April, we have been notified by Maple TA that the service will be unavailable between 3am and 4am on the 11th April, as they have to install some security patches. …
My Dundee Maple TA Service Disruption – April 12th 2018
We have been advised from our business transformation team that Maple TA will be down for a short period of time to allow for implementation of GDPR regulations. The designated time for this update is April 12th 2018 between the hours of 8.00 PM – 10.00 PM. The Maple TA service on My Dundee will…
Turnitin Service Alert – Now resolved
We have just received the following message from Turnitin. You may have experienced issues viewing submissions within the Feedback Studio. This was down to a service disruption affecting the performance of Turnitin and Turnitin UK. The service was affected between 8 and 10.40 this morning. NOTE: They advise that you clear the cache before re-trying…
Using CampusPack Wiki (Students)
What is a wiki? You’ve probably all used a Wiki – wikipedia is the most used wiki – but there are others. The first wiki was built by Ward Cunningham in 1994, and was designed to be a web site that is very easy to edit – you didn’t have to know anything about building…