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Strengthen Your Online/Hybrid Courses with Quality Matters

Support student success with Applying the QM Rubric Workshop

Quality Matters (QM) is a nationally recognized, faculty-centered, peer review process designed to improve online and blended course quality to benefit online learners. The Applying the Quality...

Posted: August 18, 2016, 10:08 AM

Clicker Registration Contest

Activate your Turning Account and be entered to win a prize!

Turning Technologies is running a contest for students who activate their Turning Accounts between August 1, 2016 and September 2, 2016. Students who activate their accounts during this time will...

Posted: August 10, 2016, 1:15 PM

Blackboard Downtime Scheduled Sun. Morning, Aug 21st, 1-5 AM

Essential system updates & routine maintenance expected

Blackboard engineers will perform essential system updates and routine maintenance on Sunday morning, August 21, 2016, from 1 AM - 5 AM. Blackboard will be offline during this period.  In...

Posted: August 8, 2016, 2:50 PM

Call for Proposals: USM Gamification Symposium

Explore how games boost engagement & enhance learning

Do you have a story you’d like to share about gamifying a course? Would you like to immerse others in some aspect of game playing? Have you tried gamifying a course and want to share what didn’t...

Posted: July 29, 2016, 1:52 PM

FA2016 Courses Created in Blackboard on 7/27/2016

Blackboard course shells for FA2016 were created on July 27, 2016. Bb shells are available for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, field or discussion) listed in the UMBC Schedule of Classes...

Posted: July 28, 2016, 1:40 PM

Blackboard Offers Free Virtual Conference July 12-14

Follow BbWorld via live streaming sessions & recordings

Once a year Blackboard hosts the BbWorld conference over several days for faculty, students, administrators, instructional technology specialists, training professionals, developers, and system...

Posted: July 8, 2016, 9:25 AM

Save the Date: 9/29 USM Gamification Symposium

Explore how games boost engagement & enhance learning

Join instructional designers, faculty, and academic leaders from across the University System of Maryland in exploring how games and gamification can reinvigorate courses, boost student...

Posted: July 6, 2016, 9:47 AM

Blackboard Course Archive In Progress

AY12-13 & AY13-14 Courses to be Retired from Server

Throughout summer 2016, Blackboard will archive the following terms from our Blackboard server: Fall 2012 Winter 2013 Spring 2013 Summer 2014 Fall 2013 Winter 2014 Spring 2014 Summer 2014...

Posted: June 10, 2016, 10:50 AM

Clicker License Codes to be Emailed to UMBC Students

License codes will be sent out to students starting May 23

As the campus begins the migration to TurningPoint Cloud this summer, students who purchased and registered their clickers on Blackboard prior to March 1, 2016  will receive Turning Account...

Posted: May 20, 2016, 12:28 PM

Online Learning Consortium Offers Free Faculty Training

Expand Your Online Knowledge During Summer 2016

Through a University System of Maryland partnership with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), DoIT is pleased to offer an exceptional online training opportunity to UMBC full-time and part-time...

Posted: May 11, 2016, 10:09 AM