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May 2023 Blackboard Tool Integration Upgrades

Updates to ALEKS, Library Reserves, Pearson, & Qwickly tools

Four Blackboard course tools--ALEKS, Library Reserves, Pearson, and Qwickly--are undergoing updates, taking a significant leap forward by transitioning to the latest Learning Tools...

Posted: May 16, 2023, 12:57 PM

Downtime for taki cluster environment May 31

To all taki users, On Wednesday May 31, 2023 taki will be down and inaccessible from 3:30pm - 5:30pm EDT. Once our work is done on Wednesday, we will make another announcement. As...

Posted: May 16, 2023, 12:40 PM

Fourteen UMBC Courses Now Meet Quality Matters Certification

Two more faculty satisfy rigorous peer review process

Two additional faculty have earned Quality Matters (QM) certification of their online or hybrid courses during the Spring 2023 semester following peer reviews as part of theQuality Matters Impact...

Posted: May 16, 2023, 10:53 AM

Image: Decorative (Quality Matters logo)

Bb Course Roster Limited to Faculty, TA Roles Starting SU23

Tool access restriction protects student privacy

At the end of May 2023, access to the Blackboard course roster will be limited to certain roles in a Blackboard course. Currently, the course roster is visible to all users, which means anyone can...

Posted: May 15, 2023, 5:38 PM

DocuSign Service experiencing outage

Please be aware that DocuSign services in the cloud are experiencing Network issues which are now affecting UMBC DocuSign folks. I have been notified they are working on it and I will share...

Posted: May 15, 2023, 1:31 PM