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IT Metrics Presented at 2014 Campus Retreat

DoIT Poster Presentation Now Available Online

As part of the Foundations Workgroup poster presentation during UMBC's 2014 Strategic Planning Retreat, DoIT presented key metrics describing campus technology. 

Posted: August 22, 2014, 4:15 PM

Bb Courses Prior to 2009 to be Deleted August 23-24

Courses older than Winter 2009 will be deleted from Blackboard during the weekend of August 23-24, 2014. This includes: Winter 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Spring 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008...

Posted: August 22, 2014, 3:59 PM

Reminder - RT downtime August 22, 2014 6pm - 8pm

This is just a reminder that RT will be down tonight from 6pm - 8pm to allow our systems folks to apply some operating system and security patches. Good news is they are also going to add...

Posted: August 22, 2014, 11:15 AM

Feeder Schools reports available in REX

REX has 5 new reports related to the performance of undergraduate students from selected feeder schools. A feeder school is the last school (high school or institution) attended priorto...

Posted: August 22, 2014, 10:02 AM

FA2014 Bb Course Shells Created 7/12/14

Bb course shells for FA2014 were created on July 12, 2014 on the Bb production server at http://blackboard.umbc.edu.  Enrollments for FA2014 courses will continue to be updated daily....

Posted: August 21, 2014, 2:15 PM

Known Issue: Course Lists Cannot Exceed 99 Courses

Too Much of a Good Thing

The maximum number of courses displayed within the “My Courses” module under myBlackboard or within the “Courses: Quick View” module under the Courses tab in Blackboard is 99. If you are enrolled...

Posted: August 20, 2014, 4:00 PM

Introducing Respondus 4.0 and Respondus LockDown Browser

Two New Respondus Testing Options

Respondus 4.0 Respondus 4.0 is powerful tool for creating and managing a wide range of question types in a robust environment. The application can import questions with images, equations and...

Posted: August 19, 2014, 11:08 AM

RT 8-18-2014 6pm upgrade completed

The RT system was upgraded this evening from version 4.0.6 to 4.0.21. As noted earlier this is a security and minor bug fix release. Today's intermittent performance problems were identified and...

Posted: August 18, 2014, 6:40 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 7 AM on 8/21

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down 7 AM Thurs 8/21

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down beginning at 7 AM on Thursday, 8/21.  This downtime is outside of the regularly scheduled maintenance window but is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: August 18, 2014, 11:07 AM

RT Downtime 8-18-2014 6pm

RT Downtime

On August 11, 2014 I posted a news article indicating the availability of the rt-dev-new.core.umbc.edu test area fro RT 4.0.21. This version is primarily a security and minor bug patch. I have...

Posted: August 14, 2014, 10:15 AM