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Apply for 2022 Lumen Circles OER Fellowship

Participate in a OER faculty learning community- no cost!

See information below about Lumen Circles OER Fellowship: Apply now for a Spring 2022 Lumen Circles Fellowship focused on Effective Teaching Using OER Be part of an OER-focused virtual...

Posted: December 16, 2021, 2:46 PM

55 People Attend 2nd Annual TechFest

More registrations and an increase in workshops

On April 10, DoIT hosted its 2nd annual TechFest, a campus event that brings together faculty, staff, and students to share technology tools through workshops. This year’s event had a bigger...

Posted: May 9, 2017, 8:52 AM

New Box Experience Now Available For UMBC Users

Box now has sidebar navigation, improved search, and more

Box, an online file sharing system that allows you to access your files from multiple devices and collaborate with others, recently released an update to its web interface. Some of the new changes...

Posted: May 2, 2017, 8:11 AM

Computer Replacement Initiative Deadline is March 29

Faculty & staff can fill out the DoIT web form

The Computer Replacement Initiative (CRI) is a UMBC campus-wide initiative designed to replace faculty and staff laptops and desktops. For the 2017-2018 academic year, within Academic Affairs, the...

Posted: March 9, 2017, 4:24 PM

TechFest 2017: New Presenters, More Vendors, and Giveaways

This year’s event is on April 10 at the University Center

In 2016, DoIT hosted a brand new type of event known as TechFest, designed to bring UMBC students, faculty, and staff together to share different ways technology can both support and improve the...

Posted: March 8, 2017, 11:38 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

Drop-in Support Available for UMBC Faculty

Get Support Using Technology in Your Course(s)

Have questions about Blackboard, Clickers or other supported instructional technologies?  Then please join us on Mondays during free hour (12pm-1pm) in ENG 025 for drop-in support. The...

Posted: August 18, 2015, 8:11 AM

Faculty and Staff Encouraged to Update Directory Listings

Log into your myUMBC profile and make the necessary changes

The UMBC Directory Search offers a browse by department feature that shows people affiliated with a university department. At times, people may incorrectly appear as part of a department, so it’s...

Posted: June 22, 2015, 4:15 PM

Campus Webmail to be Upgraded on May 28

Not applicable to google mail users.

On Wednesday, May 28 at 7am, DoIT will be performing an upgrade of the campus webmail environment on our dedicated Cyrus mail server. The current webmail environment is extremely out of date on...

Posted: April 25, 2014, 1:50 PM