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Submit Your TechFest ’19 Proposal Today!

Come share your favorite technologies and best practices.

The Instructional Technology Team will celebrate its 4th Annual TechFest on March 1, 2019 and is looking for presenters!  TechFest is designed to bring together UMBC students, faculty, and staff...

Posted: December 17, 2018, 3:52 PM

Quarterly patching downtime on 12/20/18 and 1/5/19

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Thursday, December 20th and Saturday, January 5th.  While many of...

Posted: December 13, 2018, 4:28 PM

LDAP-Master and Webadmin downtime on 12/20 at 2pm

On Thursday, December 20th starting at 2pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable. ...

Posted: December 13, 2018, 4:24 PM

UMBC Blackboard Use Differs from Most Schools

Findings based on Bb's "course archetypes" research

Earlier this year, Blackboard released a “course archetype” system administrator’s tool that allows institutions to see how the company’s Learning Management System (LMS) software is being used...

Posted: December 11, 2018, 11:23 PM

A student at a computer in the Albin O. Kuhn Library, perhaps working on the Blackboard course.

Help Wanted!! - Testers for RT in the Cloud

For several months DoIT staff have been working diligently on a project to transition RT to a hosted environment (Cloud) in Amazon Web Services (AWS). The goal is to address volume related...

Posted: December 10, 2018, 10:53 AM

Graduate Assistantship Forms Transitioning to DocuSign!

Digital Workflow Offers Expanded Functionality

The Graduate School has been using DocuSign as their e-signature and digital workflow platform, replacing many of their paper forms with electronic forms that can be submitted, signed, processed...

Posted: December 10, 2018, 10:41 AM

12-07-2018 Service Interruption

RT had a server issue at approximately 11:30am which prevented updates to occur.  The system did queued these up and now that the issue has been resolved the backlog of requests will be...

Posted: December 7, 2018, 12:39 PM

myUMBC Spring 2019 Update

Changes to navigation and notifications

We launched the updated myUMBC homepage experience this August and overall the responses were positive with regard to the updated look and feel and community focus. However, it was also obvious...

Posted: December 7, 2018, 10:22 AM

UMBC Graduate School Makes Strides In Efficient Outreach

E-signatures Continue To Produce New Business Solutions

The Graduate School at UMBC takes pride in providing opportunities for student success. Through collaboration with prestigious faculty and research with groundbreaking partner institutions,...

Posted: December 6, 2018, 9:55 AM

Digital Workflows Integrate Procedure And Technology

AOP Provides New Opportunities For Business Efficiency

UMBC’s Office of Academic Opportunities Programs (AOP) is dedicated to providing assistance, resources, and support to students who have traditionally been underrepresented in higher education in...

Posted: December 5, 2018, 9:46 AM