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Updated Adobe License Available

If you've been using applications provided to faculty and staff through our Adobe Creative Cloud license, you may be getting a pop up asking you to update an expired license or sign in to continue...

Posted: December 6, 2017, 9:56 AM

Blackboard Issues Today

Intermittent Slowness & Unscheduled Downtime

To The Campus Community This morning around 10:44 a.m., DoIT became aware of slowness and/or intermittent downtime with our primary Blackboard instance. After some internal investigation, a...

Posted: November 17, 2017, 4:40 PM

Quality Matters Eastern Regional Conference Reminder

Call for Proposals Ends 11/22/17

The Quality Matters Regional Conference East is currently accepting proposals for its spring conference, which will be held at Towson University on March 22-23, 2018.  The conference theme is...

Posted: November 15, 2017, 10:58 AM

USM Statewide Summit on Open Educational Resources - 12/8/17

Registration Re-Opened Due to High Demand

Due to high demand, we have increased capacity for the Maryland OER Summit and have re-opened registration.  This day-long summit will bring together faculty, instructional designers, librarians,...

Posted: November 15, 2017, 10:28 AM

DoIT Benchmarks Faculty/Student IT Trends

Key Findings: Leveraging Online Learning & Smartphones

UMBC has participated in the Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) student survey for 11 of the past 12 years, and taken part in  the Faculty survey on its bi-annual deployments....

Posted: November 14, 2017, 4:52 PM

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Submit Your TechFest Proposal Today!

Share your favorite technologies with the UMBC Community

The Instructional Technology team is celebrating our 3rd Annual TechFest in 2018. TechFest is designed to bring together UMBC students, faculty, and staff to share their favorite technologies with...

Posted: November 8, 2017, 1:13 PM

New Product Demo Space at the Technology Support Center

Try out a few of the laptops available from Apple and Dell!

As part DoIT's new service to help with personal and institutional computer purchases, the Technology Support Center (TSC) now has a product demo space up and running in the Library. Stop by the...

Posted: October 26, 2017, 3:49 PM

DoIT Student Employee Wins 2017 UMBC Hackathon

Three-student Team Focuses on Social Good

DoIT Student Employee Tristan Oetker, a senior Information Systems major working in DoIT’s Business Systems Group (BSG), was one of three students to win 1st Place at the 2017 UMBC Hackathon that...

Posted: October 25, 2017, 9:38 AM

Explore Hybrid/Online During National Distance Learning Week

Three days of lunchtime panels & conversations

One in four students take some of their courses online, and two-thirds do so at a public institution (Allen, Seaman, Pouline, & Straut, 2016). In early November, UMBC celebrates the 10th...

Posted: October 24, 2017, 2:56 PM

Save the Date for TechFest 2018!

3rd Annual TechFest on March 29, 2018

On March 29, 2018, the Instructional Technology team will hold our third annual TechFest. TechFest brings the campus community together and demonstrates ways that technology can both support and...

Posted: October 23, 2017, 11:13 AM