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Reminder: Alternate Delivery Program Proposals Due May 13th

Hybrid/Online Course Redesign for Summer and Winter Courses

Faculty interested in effective hybrid or fully online course delivery are invited to submit a proposal for this innovative faculty support program. The Alternate Delivery Program...

Posted: May 2, 2016, 4:17 PM

Campus Central Login System Outage from 9:30-10:45pm

On Tuesday April 26th, from 9:30-10:45 PM, the campus experienced a service outage on our centralized login system for myUMBC. During this time services that use UMBC's single sign on, including...

Posted: April 26, 2016, 11:30 PM

How a DoIT Student Employee Helped Bring TechFest to UMBC

An idea to bring the campus together through technology

On Wednesday, March 9th DoIT’s Instructional Technology team sponsored a brand new event, known as TechFest. Located across three different rooms in the University Center and featuring over 10...

Posted: April 26, 2016, 10:33 AM

2016-04-22 RT Performance Issue

Please be aware that RT is having a performance issue related to the creation of tickets. System folks are researching and an update will be provided as soon as we have one. Thank you Joe Kirby

Posted: April 22, 2016, 3:09 PM

And the Winner Is...

Workshop Topic for April

You voted and the winner for the workshop that will be held in April is... Grading & The Blackboard Grade Center Please complete this Doodle polland vote for the date(s) and time(s)...

Posted: April 11, 2016, 8:24 AM

Alternate Delivery Program: Designing Courses with Quality

Three Skill Tracks Now Available

The Alternate Delivery Program (ADP) provides financial, technical, and pedagogical support to faculty who agree to redesign an existing face-to-face (F2F) course for online or hybrid (part...

Posted: April 4, 2016, 12:50 PM

Vote for the Workshop Held in April!

What workshop would you like to attend in April?

Please select up to THREE topics you would like to see featured as our April workshop.  The choices are:  1. Assessing Your Learners in Blackboard  2. Blackboard Collaborate 3....

Posted: March 30, 2016, 10:49 AM

Migration to TurningPoint Cloud Begins This Summer

Preparing the Campus for Upcoming Clicker Changes

Starting this summer, the campus will transition from TurningPoint 5 to TurningPoint Cloud as our new clicker software. During this time, all Division of Information Technology controlled labs and...

Posted: March 29, 2016, 1:17 PM

Using FAQs to Help Users Help Themselves

A Free, On-campus "Simulcast" of A SIGUCCS Webinar

FYI As promised during Andrea Mocko's 1/14/16 "Lessons Learned from the TSC," she and John Fritz will reprise a popular workshop and proceedings paper from the Special Interest Group -...

Posted: March 29, 2016, 9:21 AM