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USM announces Statewide Summit on Open Educational Resources

Register now to attend on Friday, December 8, 2017

Register now to attend Advancing Postsecondary Student Success Through OER: A Statewide Summit on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education.   Date: Friday, December 8, 2017   Location:...

Posted: October 20, 2017, 2:19 PM

Eduroam Update Message

An eduroam wifi network update requires your attention.

There was an update this morning to the eduroam wireless network that will prompt users to retrust a certificate from our servers. This update was required due to the existing certificate...

Posted: October 6, 2017, 1:20 PM

9-28-2017 Downtime

DoIT systems group will be taking RT down for a few minutes at 10pm in order to perform a system patch. I apologize for the short notice as this was identified as important and time sensitive....

Posted: September 28, 2017, 9:12 PM

'Student Group Roster' report now available

Student Group Administrators

A new report "Student Group Roster" has been published that allows student group administrators to see the list of students in their group by Term.  Displays Name, Empid, CampusID, Career and...

Posted: September 26, 2017, 10:52 AM

Software Bug in ResNet Wireless System

In response to residential student feedback, we recently partnered with the Office of Residential Life and updated all residential buildings with wireless hardware upgrades that provide the...

Posted: September 22, 2017, 9:48 AM

9-21-2017 DocuSign Update

This evening DoIT worked with DocuSign technical staff to upgrade our system to new accounts to allow full use of the latest version called ‘New Experience’. This was a fairly labor intensive...

Posted: September 21, 2017, 10:12 PM

Quality Matters Regional Conference Call for Proposals

Share your ideas & best practices with the QM community

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: September 21, 2017, 9:40 AM

DocuSign Maintenance

DocuSign will be down from 5:00pm and 10:00pm this Thursday!

This week, on Thursday evening between 5:00pm-10:00p, there will be maintenance work for UMBC's DocuSign solution. As part of the maintenance, new accounts will be provisioned to allow for...

Posted: September 20, 2017, 2:38 PM

Fall 2017 Begin Term Census data is now available in REX

IRADS has released the official data for Fall 2017.  It should now appear as a Term option in the Census Data reports in REX.  As a reminder, in REX official Day 10 numbers are labeled with a...

Posted: September 14, 2017, 10:23 AM

Equifax Data Breach

What People Should Know About the Equifax Breach.

As many have seen, Equifax had a breach of the personal information of approximately 143 million people.  This is one of the largest breaches of personally identifiable information ever.  Here are...

Posted: September 12, 2017, 10:40 AM