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Using Blackboard to Leverage Lynda.com

Assign, Evaluate Prerequisite Skills with Adaptive Release

As announced earlier this semester, DoIT and Visual Arts have partnered on a one-year license to Lynda.com, the popular online software training platform. However, short of simply recommending...

Posted: December 6, 2016, 4:41 PM

Joe Kirby Honored for 30 Years of Service

16 DoIT Staff Honored at UMBC Service Awards Tomorrow

Update: See Joe's UMBC Digital Story at https://youtu.be/Q2cGLtJfxjk While many have contributed to UMBC's 50 years of excellence, tomorrow the campus will recognize 30 years of service by...

Posted: December 6, 2016, 2:27 PM

Take Attendance Qwickly with New Tool in Blackboard

Track attendance in gradebook & send students absentee email

A popular request from faculty is a tool to track student attendance. Many instructors who teach large classes use clickers to assign points for student engagement as a proxy for attendance....

Posted: December 5, 2016, 4:02 PM

Blackboard Upgrade Scheduled Dec. 26, 6:30 AM - 6:30 PM

System-wide update planned

Blackboard engineers will perform a system upgrade and maintenance on Monday morning, December 26, 2016, from 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM. Blackboard will be offline during this period. The downtime...

Posted: December 2, 2016, 9:49 AM

Beat the Next Snow Day with the Skill Builder Boot Camp

Everything you need to know about Blackboard in 2 days!

Concerned about Mother Nature's icy influence this winter? New to UMBC or teaching with Blackboard? Need to refresh your skills? Interested in an existing technology or resource? The Skill...

Posted: December 1, 2016, 1:05 PM

WT/SP2017 Courses Created in Blackboard on 11/29/2016

Blackboard course shells for WT/SP2017 were created on November 29, 2016. Bb shells are available for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, field or discussion) listed in the UMBC Schedule of...

Posted: December 1, 2016, 12:55 PM

Nearly All UMBC Students Own Laptops AND Smart Phones

Findings Mirror 2016 National Study of Students and IT

For 10 of the past 11 years, UMBC has participated in the annual “Undergraduates and IT” study conducted by the Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR). According to the 2016 ECAR findings,...

Posted: November 30, 2016, 1:46 PM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Hiring for Winter & Spring

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 Winter and Spring. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on UMBCWorks to...

Posted: November 30, 2016, 8:06 AM

Connectivity between UMBC and Comcast restored

After working on the issue throughout the day yesterday and today, the network team was able to get service restored between UMBC and Comcast late this afternoon around 5:00pm. All of the campus...

Posted: November 21, 2016, 9:35 PM

Connectivity problems between Comcast and UMBC

Throughout the day Sunday November 20th there have been intermittent connectivity problems for users with Comcast Xfinity network services when trying to reach Services within UMBC such as myUMBC...

Posted: November 21, 2016, 12:16 AM