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Most Campus IT Services Will Be Unavailable 12/30/13

Downtime Will Be 8 a.m. to Noon.

From 8 a.m. to Noon on Monday, December 30th the DoIT staff will be upgrading our OpenAFS file system used to support our Unix environment. The upgrade will involve bringing up new hardware and...

Posted: December 5, 2013, 4:56 PM

Blackboard Drop-in Sessions

Got Questions? We Have Answers!

In anticipation of faculty support needs associated with the coming term and Blackboard upgrades,  DoIT will be offering additional weekly drop-in hours beginning Monday, December 9th. A DoIT...

Posted: December 5, 2013, 3:27 PM

Reminder: Bb Upgrade Jan. 8-10, 2014

WT2014 Courses Now Available at bb-winter.umbc.edu

As previously announced, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) will upgrade UMBC's production Blackboard system from January 8 to 10, 2014. Due to the disruption caused by the upgrade,...

Posted: December 5, 2013, 1:35 PM

WT2014 and SP2014 Bb Course Shells Created on 12/2

WT2014 Bb shells are located at http://bb-winter.umbc.edu

UMBC Blackboard (Bb) course shells for both SP2014 and WT2014 were created on December 2, 2013.  The course shells for SP2014 are located on the Bb production server at...

Posted: December 5, 2013, 11:26 AM

LDAP & Webadmin downtime on 11/22/2013

Hello all. On Friday, November 22nd starting at 2pm LDAP Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be...

Posted: November 21, 2013, 3:30 PM