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DoIT Publishes 2010 Annual Report

Jack Suess, VP of IT and CIO Welcome to the Division of Information Technology’s (DoIT) first annual report. Reflecting on this time last year, our focus was on four major initiatives: • The...

Posted: September 25, 2010, 11:36 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 9/10...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 9/10 to 1 am Sat. 9/11The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for three hours of maintenance starting this Friday, September 10, at 10...

Posted: September 8, 2010, 3:34 PM

Quiz Errors on Blackboard- UPDATE

UPDATE: DoIT staff implemented the suggested fix during the scheduled downtime on Friday evening, Sept. 10th. This fix should provide a resolution to the "no action config" errors in quizzes and...

Posted: September 2, 2010, 6:55 PM

SPSS License Update Fall 2010 Updated 9-30

Posted 10-01-2010 1:35PM IBM-SPSS has notified us that the new license generation program for the network license where our 900 lab computers point is not working, disabling SPSS in the labs at...

Posted: September 2, 2010, 12:53 PM

Instructor Display of Bb Menus Using Firefox Now Fixed

Yesterday, DoIT began receiving reports from instructors that their course menus were obscured when they used the Firefox web browser (see example at right). We worked with Blackboard, which...

Posted: September 1, 2010, 11:11 AM