What is an Easter Egg? As well as the sweet / decorated types of easter egg, you can also find “easter eggs” hidden in websites and software. The first one dates back to 1979 (Happy 40th Birthday!) – and was found in an Atari game – Adventure 2600. Today, they are in a variety of…
Tip of the Week: Copying text in a Turnitin Submission
Why can’t I copy text that’s in a student submission in TII? Many staff ask how they can copy text in a student Turnitin submission to paste into the feedback – to give further information, or perhaps they want to copy a URL to follow it up. However, as markers quickly find – it’s not…
Tip of the Week: Using + to make an email alias
What’s an email alias? An email alias is simply an alternative email address. While you may be able to set up a totally different alias via your email provider, it’s also possible to use a + to create multiple different email addresses. What happens? With Gmail all of these messages would arrive in the inbox…