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…
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…
Protected: QMOD Training – Transition
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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…
Service issue: Turnitin November 1st 5:40pm-6:32pm
Turnitin experienced issues yesterday. The following is their current status update. —————————————————————- Turnitin and TurnitinUK experienced a service issue between 10:40am- 11:32am PDT / 5:40pm-6:32pm GMT / 4:40am-5:32am AEDT. During this time most users (including ones using our services through an integration) would not have been able to log in, submit papers, or access feedback….
Training Sessions: Building a community in My Dundee
We have a training session for staff available on Community development in My Dundee. We’ll be looking at Collaborate Ultra Blackboard discussions and blogs. When it might be appropriate to move beyond Blackboard tools. November 15th 2-4pm. Booking link …