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SECURITY ADVISORY: PHP Updates Needed for Web Systems

Action Required: Keep Campus Websites Secure and Operational

What is Happening? Newly identified safety flaws have been discovered in PHP—the underlying engine that powers a massive portion of the web, including publishing tools like WordPress, Drupal,...

Posted: October 21, 2026, 12:54 PM

6 Ways to Make Visual and Creative Media More Accessible

Art can challenge students without creating barriers.

A student opens the image for tomorrow's critique. The assignment asks her to analyze composition, contrast, and scale, but the image description says only, "abstract painting." She knows what...

Posted: October 20, 2026, 4:59 PM

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RESOLVED: Service Alert for UMBC Single Sign-On Service

System login issues are resolved

Update: Time of Status Update: Tuesday, October 20, 2026 at 1:50 PM Affected Service: UMBC’s Single Sign-On Services, Impacting Access to Downstream Systems Update: Please be advised that...

Posted: October 20, 2026, 1:18 PM

Before You Upload

Protect your information when using AI tools

AI tools can receive information in several ways. You might upload a document, image, or recording, or connect the tool to an account such as Google Drive. Either choice may give the tool more...

Posted: October 19, 2026, 1:00 PM

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Learn AI Skills. Connect with Employers. Lunch Is on Us!

Finish Your Google AI Professional Certificate Today

Whether you're exploring career options, preparing for your next internship, or bringing new AI skills to your current profession, this is an opportunity to celebrate your learning and build...

Posted: October 19, 2026, 9:15 AM

Illustration blending UMBC’s black-and-gold branding with Google’s colorful icons. A Google-logo laptop is surrounded by learning icons, a certificate, graduation cap, books, campus buildings, and a paw print, symbolizing career-focused learning and professional development through Google Career Certificates at UMBC.

Export Rubrics from Dedicated Hub in Blackboard's October Update

Keep AI conversations in the target language

Down the hall, a colleague teaching another section of the same course asks to borrow the rubric you spent a weekend refining. How do you easily share this rubric in a Blackboard format? Later in...

Posted: October 15, 2026, 3:30 PM

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Add Alt Text to Images Inside Your PDFs Using Ally’s Latest Update

Describe PDF images without leaving Blackboard

A student using a screen reader opens your lecture notes and reaches the diagram that ties the week together. The screen reader says one word: “diagram.jpg.” Until now, fixing that meant finding...

Posted: October 15, 2026, 10:00 AM

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chip and RRStor Downtime Scheduled for October 27th

To all chip users, On Tuesday October 27th, the chip cluster will be inaccessible from 0800ET - 1800ET. This maintenance window will be for upgrading our core server infrastructure to improve...

Posted: October 14, 2026, 10:11 AM

REMINDER: HPC SIG User Experience Today

As a continued part of the Shared Infrastructure Governance which advises campus endeavors around research computing, we are pleased to continue the User Experience Committee dedicated to...

Posted: October 14, 2026, 8:56 AM

Mapping Education to Career ROI

How Lumen won the hackUMBC DoIT track

This past September 26 to 27, student developers, designers, and innovators gathered to journey together over a 24-hour period at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) for hackUMBC...

Posted: October 13, 2026, 1:00 PM

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