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As of today, the DoIT News will be published through the DoIT Group on myUMBC, which in turn feeds the new DoIT site at doit.umbc.edu. As such, we will no longer be maintaining this Movable Type...

UPDATE: DoIT staffed installed the patch for the Blackboard wiki error during the downtime on Friday, April 20, and the wiki tool is now functioning normally. UPDATE: Blackboard has verified that...

DoIT has had several reports from faculty who have been unable to simultaneously post a Blackboard announcement and send it out as E-mail to students. This action generates an error message...

Full Title: Known Issue: Non-Standard Characters in Course Title Causes Error When Sending Announcement as EmailDoIT has had several reports from faculty who have been unable to simultaneously...

Full Title: Blackboard Acknowledges Delay in Processing of Safe Assign ReportsUPDATE: Blackboard released a final support bulletin on Friday, December 23, regarding the performance of Safe Assign....

Full Title: Known Issue: Potential Delay in Processing of Safe Assign PapersBlackboard Support reported today that the Safe Assign servers experienced an outage at the beginning of this week. The...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Wednesday, Nov. 9 - 12 am Thursday, Nov. 10The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for two hours of maintenance from 10 pm Wednesday, Nov. 9...

DoIT is tracking a problem that has emerged in a dozen Fall 2011 Blackboard courses in which students see the following error: Workaround Actually, the files DO exist in the course, but...

DoIT staff have received a number of reports from faculty and students regarding incompatibilities between Blackboard and some of the newer versions of web browsers. Examples include the...

The auto enrollment script that takes students who are officially enrolled in SA and places them into the corresponding Blackboard course shell stopped working on Monday, June 6. It was restarted...