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Bb Communities Moving to Managed Hosting in late January

Phase 2 of Migration includes Fall 2014 Courses

During Phase 2 of UMBC's move to managed hosting, Blackboard communities will be migrated along with Fall 2014 courses. This move will take place during mid-January, after final grades are...

Posted: January 5, 2015, 2:18 PM

Blackboard Low-Impact Maintenance Scheduled Jan 9, 2-6 AM

Service Interruption Not Expected

Date: Friday, January 09th, 2015 Time: 02:00 am to 06:00 am EST On Friday, January 09th, 2015 between the hours of 02:00 am to 06:00 am EST, the Managed Hosting Engineers will be performing...

Posted: December 31, 2014, 2:32 PM

Reminder: UMBC Moving to Blackboard Managed Hosting (MH)

myUMBC Bb, blackboard.umbc.edu point to MH on 12/29/14

To UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff, As the semester and year come to a close, we wanted to share highlights from the most recent DoIT News Update. First, as previously announced,...

Posted: December 16, 2014, 11:25 AM

Winter Technology Training Available for UMBC Faculty

Attend virtually or in-person

With the winter semester quickly approaching, we are excited to announce that the Instructional Technology team will offer several training workshops for UMBC faculty during the winter months....

Posted: December 3, 2014, 7:32 PM

WT/SP 2015 Courses Created on Bb Hosting Site on 12/2/14

Bb course shells for WT2015 and SP2015 were created on December 2, 2014 on the new Blackboard managed hosting site. Bb shells are available for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, field or...

Posted: December 3, 2014, 12:07 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 11/21 to 1 am 11/22

Per the announced Fall 2014 maintenance schedule, the UMBC Blackboard server will be offline from 10 pm Friday 11/21 to 1 am Saturday 11/22.  This downtime is during the regularly scheduled...

Posted: November 12, 2014, 10:12 AM

Bb Achievements to Support Competency Based Learning

Use badges to motivate & reward students via gamification

As announced earlier this semester, Winter and Spring 2015 courses will be hosted by Blackboard directly instead of by DoIT. As part of this change, we will also upgrade to the Spring 2014 version...

Posted: November 4, 2014, 1:01 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 10/24 to 1 am 10/25

Per the announced Fall 2014 maintenance schedule, the UMBC Blackboard server will be offline from 10 pm Friday 10/24 to 1 am Saturday 10/25.  This downtime is during the regularly scheduled...

Posted: October 16, 2014, 7:53 AM