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Coming Soon: Pinning Videos & Student Gallery View in Collab

Choose who you want to focus on during synchronous sessions

UPDATE: Following the introduction of gallery view to faculty in April 2021, we are pleased to announce that students and participants will also have access to 25 videos per page with the May...

Posted: May 5, 2021, 11:07 AM

Virtual Job Scams

Fake Jobs Offered From Real (Stolen) UMBC E-mail Accounts

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has seen reports of a scammer using compromised UMBC email accounts to send job scams. Below are examples of these scams with the names and email...

Posted: May 4, 2021, 6:36 PM

“Job Opening” Administrative Assistant Job Scam

Biological Sciences is NOT hiring adminstrative assistants

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has seen reports of a scammer claiming to offer students a position as an administrative assistant. The scammer is also claiming to be both Jose...

Posted: May 4, 2021, 11:05 AM

Extension of HPCF Publications Page with PDFs

Please provide PDF files of HPCF publications!

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, This message starts with the usual reminder to send me references to publications that used HPCF and its cluster taki, so that we can post them as...

Posted: May 3, 2021, 5:52 PM

Recent Change to UMBC's Authentication Experience

On Monday, April 26th, DoIT applied a patch to UMBC’s single sign-on solution, WebAuth, that improves security and lays the foundation for future enhancements. As a result of this change, WebAuth...

Posted: May 3, 2021, 4:41 PM