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DoIT's Technology Support Center Hiring for the Summer

Are you looking for a part-time job? Come work for us!

The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional student consultants to work during the summer semester and beyond. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting...

Posted: April 21, 2022, 9:17 AM

Job Scam Phishing Alert: COLLEGE CENTRAL JOB

Phishing Scams Continue!

Recently, UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT) received a report of a new phishing campaign. The actors compromised Professor Kang's account and sent out a job phishing scam....

Posted: April 17, 2022, 9:04 PM

Five Tips to Protect your UMBC Account Over the past weeks,

Avoid Identity Theft - especially of your own Identity

Over the past weeks, we have seen an increase in compromised accounts. So, here at UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT), we thought it was imperative to share some tips on safeguarding...

Posted: April 17, 2022, 8:45 PM

HPCF Downtime Complete

To all HPCF users, Our work bringing the two HPCF cluster environments up-to-date has concluded. Please begin normal use of the clusters. Please let us know if you have any questions or...

Posted: April 13, 2022, 12:14 AM

Gain insights on student engagement during Collab session

Also discover student views of Collab recordings

While teaching a synchronous session using web conferencing tools, instructors juggle content, conversation, and context. Engaging participants and maintaining a high level of interaction is an...

Posted: April 11, 2022, 3:30 PM

UMBC Scans Akindi's 9 Millionth Bubble Sheet

DoIT began the transition to Akindi bubble sheets in FA2021

At the end of Spring 2021, DoIT announced a pilot of Akindi, a tool that serves as a Scantron alternative that allows instructors to print and score bubble sheets from any local printer/scanner....

Posted: April 7, 2022, 8:19 AM

HPCF Downtime on April 12, 2022 - 5pm to 9pm

To all HPCF users, On Tuesday April 12, 2022 both HPCF clusters (ada & taki) as well as the other compute systems that make use of HPCF Research Storage will be down and inaccessible from...

Posted: April 4, 2022, 11:30 AM

Six assessment & grading updates for Ultra courses in April

Review upcoming change & plan a course migration over summer

Beginning in late spring and moving into summer, faculty will see extensive upgrades to Ultra courses, particularly in the areas of assessment and grading. This focus aligns with feedback from...

Posted: April 1, 2022, 9:56 AM

DocuSign timeout for Enterprise forms

I wanted to inform you that we are working on an issue with the connection to DocuSign from UMBC.  At this time the issue is only affecting new form creation for Enterprise forms. Our...

Posted: March 16, 2022, 10:40 AM

How likely is it that a student will graduate in six years?

Early predictions give us more time to help!

The Data Science Team recently released its set of predictions for the 6-year graduation probabilities of the 2020 Freshman cohort. Below is a snapshot of the current cohort's predictions, in...

Posted: March 16, 2022, 9:24 AM