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Introducing Respondus 4.0 and Respondus LockDown Browser

Two New Respondus Testing Options

Respondus 4.0 Respondus 4.0 is powerful tool for creating and managing a wide range of question types in a robust environment. The application can import questions with images, equations and...

Posted: August 19, 2014, 11:08 AM

RT 8-18-2014 6pm upgrade completed

The RT system was upgraded this evening from version 4.0.6 to 4.0.21. As noted earlier this is a security and minor bug fix release. Today's intermittent performance problems were identified and...

Posted: August 18, 2014, 6:40 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 7 AM on 8/21

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down 7 AM Thurs 8/21

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down beginning at 7 AM on Thursday, 8/21.  This downtime is outside of the regularly scheduled maintenance window but is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: August 18, 2014, 11:07 AM

RT Downtime 8-18-2014 6pm

RT Downtime

On August 11, 2014 I posted a news article indicating the availability of the rt-dev-new.core.umbc.edu test area fro RT 4.0.21. This version is primarily a security and minor bug patch. I have...

Posted: August 14, 2014, 10:15 AM

AD network share drive downtime this Friday at 6:00pm

As part of our continuing commitment to security the servers that provide the department network shared drives need to be taken down so the operating system can be upgraded and patched. This...

Posted: August 13, 2014, 4:54 PM