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LDAP-Master and Webadmin downtime on 12/21 at 2pm

On Thursday, December 21st starting at 2pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable. ...

Posted: December 12, 2017, 4:12 PM

MD Open Source Textbook Initiative Mini-Grants Announced

Begin your OER Mini-Grant proposal today!

Today the University System of Maryland 's William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation announced the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) 2018 High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program.  Learn...

Posted: December 12, 2017, 12:01 PM

DocuSign Update

If your DocuSign screen typically looks like the first image, you can ignore this update. If your DocuSign screen typically looks like the second image, details about the new update are below....

Posted: December 11, 2017, 8:46 AM

Updated Adobe License Available

If you've been using applications provided to faculty and staff through our Adobe Creative Cloud license, you may be getting a pop up asking you to update an expired license or sign in to continue...

Posted: December 6, 2017, 9:56 AM

SU2017 Courses Restored to Main Blackboard Site

Final step in cloud transition

All SU2017 courses, which operated in a separate environment during the full Blackboard transition to the cloud, were successfully restored to the UMBC's main Blackboard site in mid-FA2017, per...

Posted: November 21, 2017, 1:26 PM

Blackboard Issues Today

Intermittent Slowness & Unscheduled Downtime

To The Campus Community This morning around 10:44 a.m., DoIT became aware of slowness and/or intermittent downtime with our primary Blackboard instance. After some internal investigation, a...

Posted: November 17, 2017, 4:40 PM

Quality Matters Eastern Regional Conference Reminder

Call for Proposals Ends 11/22/17

The Quality Matters Regional Conference East is currently accepting proposals for its spring conference, which will be held at Towson University on March 22-23, 2018.  The conference theme is...

Posted: November 15, 2017, 10:58 AM

USM Statewide Summit on Open Educational Resources - 12/8/17

Registration Re-Opened Due to High Demand

Due to high demand, we have increased capacity for the Maryland OER Summit and have re-opened registration.  This day-long summit will bring together faculty, instructional designers, librarians,...

Posted: November 15, 2017, 10:28 AM

DoIT Benchmarks Faculty/Student IT Trends

Key Findings: Leveraging Online Learning & Smartphones

UMBC has participated in the Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) student survey for 11 of the past 12 years, and taken part in  the Faculty survey on its bi-annual deployments....

Posted: November 14, 2017, 4:52 PM

Bb Inline Grading Tool Upgrade Planned During Winter Term

Document & annotations to be migrated to New Box View

During the grading and evaluation process, Blackboard’s inline grading tool allows instructors, teaching assistants, and graders to embed feedback, such as comments, highlights, and even drawings,...

Posted: November 10, 2017, 3:58 PM