We have arranged 2 Turnitin Training sessions for staff, which are bookable via Eventbrite. Marking Introduction: Primarily for those who’ve not used Turnitin before November 8th 2-4pm: Booking link Advanced marking We are expecting you to be familiar with the basics of using Turnitin, and will look at using rubrics, grading forms & quickmark libraries….
Blackboard App – Issues with iOS 11 and Chinese language.
If you have a newer iOS device, and have updated it to iOS11, have set your default language to Chinese or Korean, the Blackboard App has issues with freezing. The following is taken from Blackboard’s issues pages: The Blackboard app is ‘freezing’ on a black screen on some late-model Apple devices running iOS 11 and…
Are you a Digital Scholar?
Or would you like to become one? In the last learning X, we looked at investigating and developing your Learning Footprint. In a related theme, we’d like to invite you to join with us in working through an Open Learn course, The Digital Scholar. The course is developed by Martin Weller – and closely related…
Uploading rubrics and grading forms to Turnitin.
If you want to use rubrics and grading forms with Turnitin there are a number of stages: Add a rubric to your library: This could be through creating a rubric OR uploading one someone else created. In either case, the rubric is attached to you, so you’ll only have to do it once for each…
Move to Questionmark On-Demand
As you may know, we have been in the process of transitioning our Questionmark service from the self-hosted ‘Perception’ to the new cloud-hosted ‘On-Demand’ (OD) service. This project was meant to be completed over the summer but was unexpectedly delayed. The delay has now been resolved and we are able to move forward once again. Read on for details of the new project schedule…..
New Home Tab Layout (Updated)
On Friday (06/10/2017) your My Dundee tabs will look a little different. …
Service Announcements (resolved)
All our systems are working as expected at the moment but watch this space for future issues and announcements. We’re working on new ways to communicate the status of our services and we’re starting off with a specific announcements feed that will appear on the front page of My Dundee. We will use this feed…
Learning Footprints
Staff and students – have you investigated your learning footprint?…
Turnitin Training
OPD, supported by CTIL, are offering Turnitin training sessions, the next 2 are: Thursday 5th October. 10am-noon This session covers setting up assessments, so will be useful for administrative staff and also those academics who set up their own assessments. Monday 6th November: 10am – noon. This session will focus on marking assessments, so aimed…