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Smarter Feedback and Flexible Rubric Improvements Arrive in the June Ultra Update

Turn every answer choice into a teachable moment

What if a wrong answer could teach just as much as a right one? This month’s Blackboard update brings tools that let instructors do exactly that: Guiding students not just to the correct response,...

Posted: May 28, 2026, 10:32 AM

Resolving Google Calendar Add-in Issues (Webex, Teams, etc.)

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has identified an issue affecting Google Calendar add-ins (such as Webex, Microsoft Teams, and others). A recent update starting on or around May...

Posted: May 28, 2026, 10:04 AM

Picture of Google Calendar with service disruption messages for Webex and Microsoft Teams (image was AI generated)

Slurm Outage Resolved

To all chip users, The slurm outage has been resolved. New jobs can now be submitted for scheduling and running jobs were unaffected. We appreciate you patience. Max Breitmeyer, HPC Specialist

Posted: May 26, 2026, 12:41 PM

Temporary Slurm Outage

To all chip users, We are aware of a temporary outage to slurm that is preventing new jobs from being submitted, as well as viewing the status of the cluster and the running jobs. Please be...

Posted: May 26, 2026, 12:30 PM

Concur Dashboards & Data Reporting Now Available

Better Visibility. Better Decisions.

We are excited to share a growing collection of SAP Concur dashboards and reporting tools designed to give departments greater visibility into travel activity, approvals, compliance, and system...

Posted: May 26, 2026, 12:01 PM

20260602 Downtime Announcement

To all chip users, On Tuesday June 2nd, the chip cluster will be inaccessible during business hours starting at 0800ET. This downtime will be to apply critical security patches, and to...

Posted: May 22, 2026, 1:39 PM

Stay Safe Online While Traveling this Summer

Don’t let phishing ruin the summer fun

Dear UMBC Community, Congratulations to our graduates and we are so excited that summer is finally here! This is a reminder to the entire UMBC community that phishing emails don’t take a...

Posted: May 21, 2026, 1:00 PM

Congratulations to our DoIT May Graduates

Congratulations to the Division of Information Technology's student employees who will be graduating this week! Your contributions to our Networks, Communications, AV Services, Analytics,...

Posted: May 19, 2026, 9:17 AM

U-M-B-C's retriever dog statue wearing a black graduation cap with a black and gold tassel. The statue has a paper diploma rolled up in its mouth, and a black and gold shash on its body.

A Ticket to Opportunity: Beamlak Bekele Reflects on her High Performance Computing Experience

A Graduating DoIT Student Employee Story

Beamlak Bekele, a UMBC Graduate student, shares her fulfilling job experience with the Division of Information Technology’s (DoIT) High Performance Computing Facility (HPCF), part of DoIT’s Unix...

Posted: May 18, 2026, 3:03 PM

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Concur Just Got Easier: Expense Assistant Is Coming to UMBC

Less manual work. Smarter trip organization. Faster expense

Dear Campus Community, We are excited to announce that UMBC will soon be enabling Concur Expense Assistant, a new feature designed to simplify and streamline the expense reporting process for...

Posted: May 18, 2026, 12:42 PM

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