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DoIT Seeks Campus Feedback Through IT User Survey

Annual Technology Assessment Available Until 5/16

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: May 5, 2014, 10:52 AM

UMBC Email Outage for non-Gmail users

Email impacted for 110 faculty/staff - please read.

Starting at 11am on May 1, 2014, DoIT began a cleanup process on our non-Gmail based email servers, named Cryus.  There was an error in this process and it inadvertently removed the mail of...

Posted: May 1, 2014, 5:09 PM

SU2014 Bb Course Shells Created 4/17/14

Bb course shells for SU2014 were created on April 17, 2014 on the Bb production server at http://blackboard.umbc.edu.  Enrollments for SU2014 courses will continue to be updated daily....

Posted: May 1, 2014, 11:00 AM

Students More Accepting of Using Clickers for Exams

2nd Clicker Pilot Continues Comparison with Scantron Testing

To continue its evaluation of clickers as a possible alternative to scantron “bubble sheet” assessments, DoIT again partnered with Dr. Tamara Mendelson from Biology in a pilot this semester using...

Posted: April 30, 2014, 9:11 AM

Known Issue: Missing Bb Modules Caused by Editing

DoIT recomends users not edit module settings

5/19/14 Update: This issue is fixed in Service Pack (SP) 14 of version 9.1. We are on SP 13, but are unlikely to upgrade before January 2015 given overlapping dates when final grades are due...

Posted: April 29, 2014, 1:40 PM