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New REX report : Curricular Interdependency Matrix

A new REX guided report is intended for departments and colleges to answer the question "Who are we teaching?" and "Who is teaching our students?".  The question is only answered for undergraduate...

Posted: February 5, 2018, 3:31 PM

REX Finance Report UPGRADE

REX-Finance reports will be improving over the weekend of February 2.  Exciting new functionality will be available for you to use on Monday, February 5!   New features will include:   ·     ...

Posted: January 30, 2018, 4:40 PM

Blackboard Offline 12-6 a.m., Sat., 1/27

Core File System Infrastructure Must Be Upgraded

To upgrade Blackboard’s core file system that cannot wait until Spring Break or Summer, Blackboard engineers will service UMBC’s cloud system on Saturday, January 27, from 12:01 a.m. to...

Posted: January 23, 2018, 11:59 AM

Are you looking for the SEEQ survey results?

“SEEQ Instructor Profiles by Mean” or Median report, provides the SEEQ survey results by Class and Instructor for a given term. Data can be queried by Organization, Subject, Course, Section and...

Posted: January 22, 2018, 10:02 AM

Online Learning Consortium Offers Flexible Training

Expand your skills & knowledge in 2018

Through a University System of Maryland partnership, DoIT has offered online training to UMBC full-time and part-time faculty via the Online Learning Consortium (OLC) over several years. UMBC...

Posted: January 22, 2018, 9:43 AM

Second Card Sort Test!

Hi everyone,  We are conducting a second card sort for the myUMBC events page. This time the sorting is by predetermined categories, which makes the process faster!  You will need to...

Posted: January 19, 2018, 10:46 AM

13 Steps to Get Your Blackboard Course Ready

Checklist to optimize your course before the semester starts

Prepare your Blackboard course shell for the new semester with our baker’s dozen checklist. 1. Review new tools & features in Blackboard. Our Blackboard site is upgrade twice a year so check...

Posted: January 16, 2018, 2:26 PM

High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program Webinars Scheduled

Faculty wanted for Maryland Open Source Textbook Initiative

2018 High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program Informational Webinars The Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) initiative is seeking proposals for its 2018 High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program to...

Posted: January 9, 2018, 12:10 PM

Meltdown and Spectre

DoIT is Monitoring and Addressing Meltdown and Spectre

As many of you have likely seen in the news, two new vulnerabilities have recently been announced.  The vulnerabilities have been named Spectre and Meltdown.  These vulnerabilities are related...

Posted: January 5, 2018, 11:43 PM