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[Online Insights] 4 Strategies to Reduce Student Anxiety at the Start
The first five minutes matter in your online course
Picture a student logging into your course for the first time. They see a homepage with six modules, a syllabus buried two folders deep, and no indication of where to start. So they click around....
Posted: August 20, 2026, 2:30 PM
Four Biology Faculty Give 1st Exam In-class AND Online
WiFi & student laptops turn UC into a "testing center"
Before the Spring 22 semester started, four Biological Sciences professors -- David Eisenmann, Hua Lu, Jeffrey Leips, and Kevin Omland -- reached out to DoIT to see if they could (and should) try...
Posted: March 3, 2022, 4:16 PM
Panopto: Recording, Hosting, and Engaging
Leveraging Screencasting to Support Instructional Strategies
UMBC adopted Panopto in fall 2018. Use has increased since this time, in particular spurred on by geometrically increased adoption with the migration to fully online and then hybrid learning in...
Posted: February 8, 2022, 9:40 AM
5 reasons you should open your Blackboard course early
Benefits help students and instructors
At UMBC, courses are created in Blackboard about four weeks before a new semester begins, providing time for faculty to transition instructional materials and assessments into a new site for...
Posted: January 20, 2022, 11:01 AM
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