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Travel System - Technical Difficulties RESOLVED

Unable to submit travel for approval - RESOLVED

***Travel System is back up and running*** The issue with the Travel System preventing users from submitting requests for approval has been resolved. You can now proceed with your submissions as...

Posted: June 3, 2024, 1:15 PM

Travel System - Technical Difficulties.

Unable to submit travel for approval.

The Travel System is presently experiencing issues preventing users from submitting  any type of requests for approval. An RT ticket has been escalated to the Department of Information Technology...

Posted: June 3, 2024, 12:37 PM

June features printer-friendly tests & new Courses page

Language support for AI course tools, grading enhancements

This June, Ultra users can look forward to updates that enhance user experience and functionality including a new language selector when generating content with the AI Course Design Assistant,...

Posted: May 30, 2024, 2:26 PM

Emails Restored: Update to Email Issue from Earlier today

The emails that were inadvertently quarantined earlier today have been restored to all accounts.  If you have any questions or would like additional information about what occurred or any other...

Posted: May 29, 2024, 6:21 PM

Email delivery issue today (May 29th) from 12-2pm

Beginning at noon today, users may have noticed emails missing from their inboxes. While addressing another issue, a filter was applied that caused messages in many inboxes to be inadvertently...

Posted: May 29, 2024, 3:07 PM

RT System Downtime - Tuesday, May 28 (Update - Postponed)

To facilitate an upgrade to RT 5.0.5, there will be a minimal downtime tomorrow morning between 6:30 and 7 am. There aren’t any major changes in this release, and everything is anticipated to be...

Posted: May 27, 2024, 10:27 PM

New Voicethread launches May 27th for all UMBC users

Enhanced commenting features and other changes

Starting May 27th all Voicethread users will experience the "new" Voicethread that includes enhanced features. These include: One Conversation – A simpler-to-use conversation structure makes...

Posted: May 23, 2024, 2:10 PM

Quarterly patching downtime - 5/23 & 6/1

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Thursday, May 23rd and Saturday, June 1st.  While many of the...

Posted: May 20, 2024, 9:52 AM

End of Year Cut off

Last day to turn in Travel for FY24 (June 14th)

All travel request must be approved and turned into Business Services via DocuSign/Travel system by close of business on June 14th, for the expenses to be recorded  in FY24 For assistance...

Posted: May 16, 2024, 9:48 AM

Update - DocuSign Outage - 5/15

UPDATE - The DocuSign partial outage has been restored. If you are still having issues, please file a ticket at help.umbc.edu. Previously - DocuSign is experiencing a partial outage today,...

Posted: May 15, 2024, 4:37 PM