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10 Things Faculty Should Do in Blackboard & Why

Lessons learned from DoIT's "bird's eye view"

Dear UMBC Faculty, This year, we learned UMBC’s Blackboard usage is much different and (I think) better than most colleges and universities, but one of the things I still like to do with DoIT's...

Posted: May 8, 2019, 4:21 PM

"Follow-the-Sun" Webinar Series for Global Accessibility Day

Learn more about inclusive education & digital access

Founded in 2012, Global Accessibility Awareness Day is dedicated to driving conversations and building awareness on the importance of accessibility. The seventh annual Global Accessibility...

Posted: May 6, 2019, 1:48 PM

Student Preview & Question Banks Come to Ultra in May

Learn what’s coming to Ultra

A core feature in an Original Blackboard course, Student Preview is used by faculty to review the content and tool functionality in a virtual environment before releasing to students -- and it is...

Posted: May 2, 2019, 10:27 AM

SU2019 Courses Created in Blackboard on April 26, 2019

Blackboard course shells for SU2019 were created on April 26, 2019. The Ultra Course Preview setting is again enabled in SU2019 courses to allow faculty adoption. The Ultra Course Preview tool...

Posted: May 2, 2019, 10:25 AM

Free Webinar on Accessibility of Course Materials

Thursday, May 9, 2019 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET

The National Center on Accessible Education at CAST, Inc. is sponsoring a free webinar on accessibility. Free Webinar: Accessibility of Course Materials & Your University Thursday, May...

Posted: May 1, 2019, 9:59 PM

DoIT Welcomes Susan Biro as Online Learning Coordinator

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Susan Biro has accepted UMBC’s Online Learning Coordinator position in the Division of Information Technology (DoIT). She will start full-time on Wednesday, May...

Posted: May 1, 2019, 8:19 PM

Import Panopto News

Downtime (6/22) and Mandatory Client Upgrade (7/18)

There are two important upcoming dates and a product update: June 22, 2019: Panopto Cloud Downtime On Saturday, June 22, Panopto Cloud customers will be upgraded to Panopto 7.0. This upgrade...

Posted: April 26, 2019, 12:06 PM

Plan to restore UMBC FAQ site to full availability

I wanted to get everyone an update on where we are securing and upgrading the campus FAQ site. In order to upgrade the system to a secure version, we have made a copy of the servers to avoid...

Posted: April 24, 2019, 9:47 AM

04-18-2019 10:00 pm Downtime for RT

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, DoIT's systems staff  will need to take RT offline for approximately 30 minutes at 10:00pm tonight to perform some system maintenance. I apologize...

Posted: April 18, 2019, 10:28 AM

UMBC FAQ Knowledge Base Limited to Campus Use Only

Due to a recently published set of security vulnerabilities, UMBC’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) website at umbc.edu/faq  is no longer accessible outside of UMBC. DoIT is going to keep this...

Posted: April 15, 2019, 5:22 PM