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FYI: EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference 1/12 - 1/14

The 9th Annual EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference will be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel from January 12 -14, 2011. This year's conference is titled "Setting a New Course...

Posted: December 3, 2010, 3:55 PM

WT2011 & SP2011 Bb Course Shells Created 12/1

Bb course shells for both WT and SP 2011 were created on Dec. 1, and will continue to be updated daily. Bb shells were created for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, or discussion) listed in...

Posted: December 3, 2010, 12:46 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 11/26...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 11/26 to 1 am Sat. 11/27The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for three hours of scheduled maintenance starting this Friday, November...

Posted: November 23, 2010, 4:18 PM

Storage Failure Affects Blackboard

Today from approximately noon to 2pm the Blackboard server was unavailable. This was due a controller on a storage array going bad. Unfortunately, the server attached to this storage was...

Posted: October 26, 2010, 5:47 PM

Bb Known Issue: Email Sent in HTML Format vs. Plain Text

Over the past month DoIT has received reports from both faculty and students that emails sent through Blackboard contain HTML code. In some instances users have complained that the embedded code...

Posted: October 1, 2010, 5:46 PM