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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

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Submit Your TechFest Proposal Today!

Share your favorite technologies with the UMBC Community

The Instructional Technology team is celebrating our 3rd Annual TechFest in 2018. TechFest is designed to bring together UMBC students, faculty, and staff to share their favorite technologies with...

Posted: November 8, 2017, 1:13 PM

New Product Demo Space at the Technology Support Center

Try out a few of the laptops available from Apple and Dell!

As part DoIT's new service to help with personal and institutional computer purchases, the Technology Support Center (TSC) now has a product demo space up and running in the Library. Stop by the...

Posted: October 26, 2017, 3:49 PM

DoIT Student Employee Wins 2017 UMBC Hackathon

Three-student Team Focuses on Social Good

DoIT Student Employee Tristan Oetker, a senior Information Systems major working in DoIT’s Business Systems Group (BSG), was one of three students to win 1st Place at the 2017 UMBC Hackathon that...

Posted: October 25, 2017, 9:38 AM

Explore Hybrid/Online During National Distance Learning Week

Three days of lunchtime panels & conversations

One in four students take some of their courses online, and two-thirds do so at a public institution (Allen, Seaman, Pouline, & Straut, 2016). In early November, UMBC celebrates the 10th...

Posted: October 24, 2017, 2:56 PM

Save the Date for TechFest 2018!

3rd Annual TechFest on March 29, 2018

On March 29, 2018, the Instructional Technology team will hold our third annual TechFest. TechFest brings the campus community together and demonstrates ways that technology can both support and...

Posted: October 23, 2017, 11:13 AM

USM announces Statewide Summit on Open Educational Resources

Register now to attend on Friday, December 8, 2017

Register now to attend Advancing Postsecondary Student Success Through OER: A Statewide Summit on Open Educational Resources in Higher Education.   Date: Friday, December 8, 2017   Location:...

Posted: October 20, 2017, 2:19 PM

Eduroam Update Message

An eduroam wifi network update requires your attention.

There was an update this morning to the eduroam wireless network that will prompt users to retrust a certificate from our servers. This update was required due to the existing certificate...

Posted: October 6, 2017, 1:20 PM

9-28-2017 Downtime

DoIT systems group will be taking RT down for a few minutes at 10pm in order to perform a system patch. I apologize for the short notice as this was identified as important and time sensitive....

Posted: September 28, 2017, 9:12 PM

'Student Group Roster' report now available

Student Group Administrators

A new report "Student Group Roster" has been published that allows student group administrators to see the list of students in their group by Term.  Displays Name, Empid, CampusID, Career and...

Posted: September 26, 2017, 10:52 AM