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System patching on Friday, March 17th starting at 5pm

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, March 17th from 5pm to 10pm.  While many systems will be...

Posted: March 9, 2017, 2:52 PM

LDAP-Master and Webadmin downtime on 3/16

On Thursday, March 16th 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.  Account...

Posted: March 8, 2017, 3:15 PM

TechFest 2017: New Presenters, More Vendors, and Giveaways

This year’s event is on April 10 at the University Center

In 2016, DoIT hosted a brand new type of event known as TechFest, designed to bring UMBC students, faculty, and staff together to share different ways technology can both support and improve the...

Posted: March 8, 2017, 11:38 AM

UMBC Blackboard Course Design Featured in Educause Review

Learning Analytics Research for LMS Course Design

Building on prior learning analytics research at UMBC, DoIT's John Fritz has co-authored "Learning Analytics Research for LMS Course Design: Two Studies" in the current issue of Educause Review...

Posted: March 1, 2017, 2:38 PM

Sign On The eContract Line: A New Way for Contract Renewals

Payroll & DoIT collaborate to digitize a paper process

In late January 2016, Lisa Drouillard, Director of Payroll, and Lance Rand, Manager and Software Developer for DoIT’s Business Service Group, began meeting to streamline and digitize the contract...

Posted: February 27, 2017, 10:53 AM

Information about myUMBC outage on Monday February 20th

This morning around 9:10am we experienced a failure of several disk arrays on our central storage system. The arrays that failed affected several critical systems, including myUMBC and parts of...

Posted: February 20, 2017, 11:53 AM

Welcome Sophia Haire, New Turning Technologies Intern!

New Turning Technologies Intern Hired

Sophia Haire has joined the Instructional Technology team as the new Turning Technologies Clicker Intern for the Spring 2017 semester. Sophia is a senior Center for Women in Technology (CWIT)...

Posted: February 15, 2017, 8:50 AM

“Technology Support Center, This is Saiful Islam Speaking”

Meet one of the many students working at the TSC

Located on the first floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, The Technology Support Center (TSC) is the first stop in assisting the UMBC community with technology questions and requests....

Posted: February 13, 2017, 10:07 AM

Job Offer Scam

Personal Assistant Job Offer is a Fraudulent Check Scam

We have received complaints about people receiving fraudulent job offer emails from con-artists.  In some of the job offers, the con-artist offers to pay $200 weekly for running errands,...

Posted: February 13, 2017, 8:57 AM