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“Technology Support Center, This is Saiful Islam Speaking”

Meet one of the many students working at the TSC

Located on the first floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, The Technology Support Center (TSC) is the first stop in assisting the UMBC community with technology questions and requests....

Posted: February 13, 2017, 10:07 AM

There's Been a Change in Schedule: A New Tool for Students

How collaboration brought the Schedule Planner to UMBC

It was several years ago that UMBC students decided that the best tool for them to utilize would be a 'schedule builder'. They created a custom program that would look at the list of classes being...

Posted: January 24, 2017, 12:19 PM

Using the UMBC Schedule Planner Tool

Interactive tool helps you build the best schedule

The Schedule Planner offered by UMBC is a dynamic tool that can generate multiple possible schedules, and then send them to checkout in PeopleSoft. You can access it by navigating to myUMBC,...

Posted: January 23, 2017, 3:16 PM

Kudos to Jeremy Gude for Receiving Employee of the Quarter

A master in database performance tuning & web services

DoIT would like to recognize our own Jeremy Gude for receiving the Employee of the Quarter (EOQ) award. The EOQ program recognizes the outstanding qualities and contributions of employees towards...

Posted: January 17, 2017, 12:26 PM

How Student Disability Services Ditched Their Paper System

With help from DoIT, a new cloud solution was implemented

Student Disability Services (SDS) had a major problem. Their paper system they relied on for years was not keeping up with the increased demand they saw at their office. Rather than look for help...

Posted: January 17, 2017, 11:52 AM

DoIT and VART Partner on Lynda.com License

Online tutorials to help free up faculty prep and class time

To help free up faculty time currently given to in-class software training or even home grown and self-curated online video demos, DoIT and Visual Arts (VART) have partnered to share a one-year,...

Posted: August 4, 2016, 11:50 AM

Setting New Technology Standards in Existing Seminar Rooms

How AV services can upgrade your seminar room technology

In the Information Technology and Engineering Building (ITE), room 325B was just a simple conference room. Equipped with just a projector and a single VGA cable for input, the connectivity options...

Posted: July 11, 2016, 7:00 AM

MATLAB is Now Available to UMBC Students

Available for Windows, Linux, Mac, and UNIX Systems

MATLAB handles a range of computing tasks in engineering and science. There are several built in tools that integrates mathematical computing and visualization. The MATLAB interface also allows...

Posted: May 9, 2016, 8:22 AM

Why You Should Be Using Eduroam

Benefits include one time login, security, and availability

Eduroam is a global Wi-Fi network that provides encrypted traffic for any device you use and features a one time setup process that can be used on any campus that supports eduroam, not just UMBC....

Posted: May 5, 2016, 2:29 PM

How a DoIT Student Employee Helped Bring TechFest to UMBC

An idea to bring the campus together through technology

On Wednesday, March 9th DoIT’s Instructional Technology team sponsored a brand new event, known as TechFest. Located across three different rooms in the University Center and featuring over 10...

Posted: April 26, 2016, 10:33 AM