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Blackboard Collaborate Replacing Wimba

As previously announced in October, DoIT will be installing Blackboard Collaborate 11 during the Bb upgrade window starting on December 22 at 10 pm. Bb Collaborate 11 is the new web-based...

Posted: December 2, 2011, 1:13 PM

Reminder to FA2011 Faculty to Download Bb Gradebook,...

Full Title: Reminder to FA2011 Faculty to Download Bb Gradebook, Bb Upgrade on 12/22As previously announced, DoIT will be upgrading the Blackboard (Bb) production system on Thursday, December 22...

Posted: December 1, 2011, 1:28 PM

Course Redesign/ Hybrid Course Redesign Workshop, 1/20

DoIT and the Faculty Development Center will be offering the Course Redesign/ Hybrid Course Redesign Workshop on January 20, 2012 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm in ENGR 023. In the morning session...

Posted: November 30, 2011, 1:03 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 11/25...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 11/25 to 1 am Sat. 11/26The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for three hours of scheduled maintenance from 10 pm Friday, Nov. 25 to 1...

Posted: November 21, 2011, 10:00 AM

Known Issue: Potential Delay in Processing of Safe...

Full Title: Known Issue: Potential Delay in Processing of Safe Assign PapersBlackboard Support reported today that the Safe Assign servers experienced an outage at the beginning of this week. The...

Posted: November 18, 2011, 1:50 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Wednesday,...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Wednesday, Nov. 9 - 12 am Thursday, Nov. 10The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for two hours of maintenance from 10 pm Wednesday, Nov. 9...

Posted: November 7, 2011, 12:53 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 10/28...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 10/28 to 1 am Sat. 10/29The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for three hours of scheduled maintenance from 10 pm Friday, Oct. 28 to 1...

Posted: October 25, 2011, 7:46 AM

12/22 Bb Upgrade Will Delay Auto-Creation of WT & SP...

Full Title: 12/22 Bb Upgrade Will Delay Auto-Creation of WT & SP 2012 CoursesTo fix a known issue of broken content links in some courses, reduce growing web browser incompatibilities, and...

Posted: October 12, 2011, 5:44 PM

myUMBC Quick Update: October 6, 2011

Here's a little midday present for you all... an UPDATE. Group Notifications When posting content within a group, you have the option on whether or not to send notifications to group...

Posted: October 6, 2011, 11:44 AM