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Application Trends by Plan report has been updated

The Application Trends by Plan report has been updated with the following. combined the Career and Admit Type parameters into a new parameter to allow selection from the following;  Freshmen,...

Posted: July 29, 2015, 3:57 PM

Paws on Start... Take 2

We put the paws back on the Start page. Hopefully any craziness has been contained for now. Let us know if you encounter any problems with paws/buries.

Posted: July 29, 2015, 12:35 PM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Now Hiring for Fall

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

[UPDATE: This position is no longer accepting applications on UMBCworks.] The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional consultants to work during the Fall. Please see our...

Posted: July 28, 2015, 2:35 PM

New Back to Back Classes report

Scheduling Coordinators maybe interested in this new report

A new report 'Back to Back Classes' has been published that allows scheduling coordinators to see classes with end times that overlap with the start time of the next class being held in the same...

Posted: July 28, 2015, 9:47 AM

Microsoft Windows 10 to be Released July 29th

Recommendation: Hold Off Installing for Now

On July 29th Microsoft will publicly release its latest operating system Windows 10.  While we eagerly anticipate the release of Windows 10 and all that it has to offer, we also ask for your...

Posted: July 27, 2015, 11:28 PM

Quick Monday Update

Paw it like you mean it... or not.

UPDATE (3:26PM): The paws on the Start page were causing some problems. So we took them away for now. They'll be back. We pushed out an update this morning related to paws. REVERTED: You can...

Posted: July 27, 2015, 11:07 AM

Partial Web Services Outage tonight around 9:00pm

This evening shortly there was an issue with one of the network switches in our secondary data center which caused several campus web services to be either unreachable or slow for a period of...

Posted: July 21, 2015, 10:46 PM

Minor Updates for June

Polls are Back! and Promotion Tweaks

Just a quick update for your Tuesday morning. Polls are Back! Yup. pretty much that. You can now include polls on your Posts. They work just like they used to. Snazzy. Promotion Tweaks...

Posted: July 21, 2015, 11:13 AM

FA2015 Courses Created on Blackboard on 7/15/2015

Blackboard course shells for FA2015 were created on July 15, 2015. Bb shells are available for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, field or discussion) listed in the UMBC Schedule of Classes...

Posted: July 15, 2015, 12:26 PM

Campus Invited to Test Java-Free Blackboard Collaborate

Early release supports limited virtual classrooms & meetings

A new Java-free version of Blackboard Collaborate is now available for faculty and staff to test-drive this summer. Classified as the "Ultra Experience," this release of Bb Collaborate uses the...

Posted: July 15, 2015, 11:18 AM