When marking Blackboard tests/assignments it is recommend that you annotate using the in-built annotation tools in My Dundee. If you do encounter any issues with this, please raise a ticket via Help4u. If you need to mark offline, we recommend staff use Adobe Acrobat Reader to annotate/create comments. Students should also use the some program…
New Tool: Qwickly Jot Assignment.
Some staff will have seen the Qwickly tool on the My Dundee landing page, which is useful for making modules available, and posting announcements to multiple modules. We now have the Qwickly Jot Assignments – which will let staff upload images for students to mark up. There is more information (and a video) on our help…
Blackboard Webinar – New Box view.
NOTE: This is aimed at those staff using Blackboard’s assignment tool, not those using Turnitin for marking and feedback. It also does not affect those using Moodle marking tools for some medical courses. As you may know, Blackboard’s marking tool has changed; this was driven by a change in the supplier than BB use. Blackboard…
My Dundee upgrade: Goodbye Crocodoc, Hello New Box View
As you will have seen, we have recently upgraded our version of Blackboard, which is what powers My Dundee. While most of the changes were bug fixes, the one that may affect some staff is the change from using Crocodoc to annotate work that was submitted via the Blackboard assignment tool to using Box to…
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 …
My Dundee Training
OPD, supported by CTIL, are offering My Dundee training sessions, the next 1 is: Wednesday 15th November: 10am – noon. This session will cover the basics of adding and editing content on My Dundee. We hope to have time at the end to look at some more advanced features, depending on the needs of the…
Blackboard App for Instructors
Blackboard have now released their app for Instructors. This is a summary of the key points, for further instructions, please see Blackboard for Instructors (help page) Students – there is also a new app for students, more on that soon….