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Job Phishing Alert: Department of Psychology - New Post

If It's Too Good To Be True, It's A Lie

Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received multiple reports of job phishing emails. The scammers sending these emails are impersonating Professor Brodsky of the Department of...

Posted: May 9, 2022, 10:55 AM

UMBC Migrates from Scantron to Akindi

New Platform Easier to Use and Supports Campus-Wide Analysis

Last year, DoIT announced the pilot of a tool called Akindi, which serves as a Scantron alternative and allows instructors to print and score bubble sheets from any local printer/scanner. There...

Posted: May 6, 2022, 3:28 PM

Postponed: Equitable & Inclusive Course for Faculty

An immersive cohort on equity and inclusive course design

After much consideration of the workshop facilitators and subject matter experts, we have decided not to offer a session during Fall 2022. We hope to offer a session during Spring 2023. Thank you...

Posted: May 5, 2022, 11:55 AM

Job Phishing Alert: Department of Psychology

Another job that doesn't exist

Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received multiple reports of job phishing emails. The scammers sending these emails are impersonating Professor Brodsky of the Department of...

Posted: May 3, 2022, 4:25 PM

Workflow improvements for Ultra grading & assessments in May

New test question filter for student assessment experience

As the semester concludes, the May update to Ultra brings some improvements centered on assessment and grading workflows and usability improvements. Weighted Calculations: With this upgrade,...

Posted: May 3, 2022, 9:40 AM

SU2022 Courses Created in Blackboard on April 29, 2022

Blackboard course shells for SU2022 were created on April 29, 2022. The Ultra Course Preview setting is again enabled in SU2022 courses, which allows faculty to convert a new Original course to...

Posted: May 3, 2022, 9:14 AM

SP22 Survey Shines Light on Faculty Testing

Key themes: academic integrity, accommodations, testing ctr.

In an effort to gather information on how faculty design and administer tests, DoIT collaborated with the Faculty Development Center (FDC) and Student Disability Services (SDS) to create and...

Posted: May 2, 2022, 1:30 PM

A thumbnail of a scantron bubble sheet exam to accompany a story about testing at UMBC.

Generate & embed captions for Collaborate recordings in May

Support accessibility for recorded sessions in your classes

Creating captioning for recordings from scratch can be very time consuming for instructors or accessibility staff. Beginning in May 2022, instructors can leverage the help of artificial...

Posted: May 2, 2022, 8:22 AM

Phishing Alert: Immediate Action Required

THE HEADLINE IS A SCAM! NO ACTION IS REQUIRED AT ALL!

The Division of Information Technology( DoIT) recently received reports of new phishing campaign. The email informs the recipients of a “Server System failure” and asks them to “Review messages.”...

Posted: April 25, 2022, 8:39 PM

Instructional Technology Essentials for June 2022

Select from a menu of trainings

Interested in attending an Instructional Technology Essentials session but unsure when it will be? Sign up for one of our sessions by May 20, 2022. Interested participants will be sent a Doodle...

Posted: April 21, 2022, 12:54 PM