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Spring Clean Your "My Courses" List in Blackboard

Blackboard now supports term organization

Whether teaching or taking courses, after semesters of enrollments and access to Blackboard, the My Courses list can really stack up. While faculty and students can edit the listing to remove...

Posted: April 21, 2015, 11:58 AM

Instructional Technology Training Scheduled for Summer

Workshops planned for Blackboard, Box, and more

As we look forward to sunnier days and warmer temperatures, the Instructional Technology team has scheduled several useful workshops to support faculty and staff: June 2 - Blackboard 101 2 - ...

Posted: April 16, 2015, 1:48 PM

DoIT Seeks Campus Feedback Through IT User Survey

Annual Technology Assessment Available Until 5/15

As part of our annual assessment plan, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) encourages the campus community to complete the following annual survey of information technology services: ...

Posted: April 7, 2015, 7:42 AM

April 1st Pokemon Battles Break myUMBC Comment Records

We wish to thank everyone who took part in the April fools celebration this year. For those who may have missed it, myUMBC comments played host to Pokemon battles on April 1st. myUMBC Discussions...

Posted: April 2, 2015, 9:38 AM

April Technology of the Month

Adaptive Release

Adaptive Release provides controls to release content to students based on a set of rules provided by the instructor. The rules may be related to availability, date and time, individual users and...

Posted: April 2, 2015, 8:46 AM