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Student Preview & Question Banks Come to Ultra in May

Learn what’s coming to Ultra

A core feature in an Original Blackboard course, Student Preview is used by faculty to review the content and tool functionality in a virtual environment before releasing to students -- and it is...

Posted: May 2, 2019, 10:27 AM

SU2019 Courses Created in Blackboard on April 26, 2019

Blackboard course shells for SU2019 were created on April 26, 2019. The Ultra Course Preview setting is again enabled in SU2019 courses to allow faculty adoption. The Ultra Course Preview tool...

Posted: May 2, 2019, 10:25 AM

Free Webinar on Accessibility of Course Materials

Thursday, May 9, 2019 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET

The National Center on Accessible Education at CAST, Inc. is sponsoring a free webinar on accessibility. Free Webinar: Accessibility of Course Materials & Your University Thursday, May...

Posted: May 1, 2019, 9:59 PM

DoIT Welcomes Susan Biro as Online Learning Coordinator

I am pleased to announce that Dr. Susan Biro has accepted UMBC’s Online Learning Coordinator position in the Division of Information Technology (DoIT). She will start full-time on Wednesday, May...

Posted: May 1, 2019, 8:19 PM

Import Panopto News

Downtime (6/22) and Mandatory Client Upgrade (7/18)

There are two important upcoming dates and a product update: June 22, 2019: Panopto Cloud Downtime On Saturday, June 22, Panopto Cloud customers will be upgraded to Panopto 7.0. This upgrade...

Posted: April 26, 2019, 12:06 PM

Plan to restore UMBC FAQ site to full availability

I wanted to get everyone an update on where we are securing and upgrading the campus FAQ site. In order to upgrade the system to a secure version, we have made a copy of the servers to avoid...

Posted: April 24, 2019, 9:47 AM

04-18-2019 10:00 pm Downtime for RT

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, DoIT's systems staff  will need to take RT offline for approximately 30 minutes at 10:00pm tonight to perform some system maintenance. I apologize...

Posted: April 18, 2019, 10:28 AM

UMBC FAQ Knowledge Base Limited to Campus Use Only

Due to a recently published set of security vulnerabilities, UMBC’s Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) website at umbc.edu/faq  is no longer accessible outside of UMBC. DoIT is going to keep this...

Posted: April 15, 2019, 5:22 PM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Hiring for the Summer

Are you looking for an on campus job? Come work for us!

The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional consultants to work during the Summer session and beyond. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on...

Posted: April 12, 2019, 10:30 AM