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January Technology of the Month

Blackboard Rubrics

A rubric is an assessment tool that identifies key criteria of assignments (i.e. essays, journals, discussion boards). Rubrics can help students organize their efforts to meet the requirements of...

Posted: January 9, 2015, 10:13 AM

Blackboard Export Process Updated to Address Known Issue

Recent maintenance performed on the UMBC's Blackboard site allows faculty to export older courses without experiencing the known issue with invalid files and import the course content to the new...

Posted: January 8, 2015, 11:45 AM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Now Hiring

Are you looking for a job this Spring? Come work for us!

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

Posted: January 7, 2015, 2:06 PM

Fall 2014 Blackboard Down For Maintenance, 12-5 PM EST

Winter Courses Remain Online & Available

UPDATE: The Fall 2014 course site is back online after less than 2 hours of maintenance. The legacy UMBC Blackboard site, which currently hosts Fall 2014 courses until they are migrated to our...

Posted: January 7, 2015, 10:20 AM

Bb Communities Moving to Managed Hosting in late January

Phase 2 of Migration includes Fall 2014 Courses

During Phase 2 of UMBC's move to managed hosting, Blackboard communities will be migrated along with Fall 2014 courses. This move will take place during mid-January, after final grades are...

Posted: January 5, 2015, 2:18 PM

Blackboard Low-Impact Maintenance Scheduled Jan 9, 2-6 AM

Service Interruption Not Expected

Date: Friday, January 09th, 2015 Time: 02:00 am to 06:00 am EST On Friday, January 09th, 2015 between the hours of 02:00 am to 06:00 am EST, the Managed Hosting Engineers will be performing...

Posted: December 31, 2014, 2:32 PM

2014-12-19 Update

RT experienced numerous issues today, mostly related to SPAM. We believe we have resolved this and will continue to monitor. I want to also let everyone know that RT will be down tonight from...

Posted: December 19, 2014, 3:58 PM

Reminder: UMBC Moving to Blackboard Managed Hosting (MH)

myUMBC Bb, blackboard.umbc.edu point to MH on 12/29/14

To UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff, As the semester and year come to a close, we wanted to share highlights from the most recent DoIT News Update. First, as previously announced,...

Posted: December 16, 2014, 11:25 AM

Google Apps now include unlimited storage

All Google services including Google mail and Google drive now include unlimited storage as part of UMBC's Google Apps for Education. This means there are no more quotas or size limits to the...

Posted: December 16, 2014, 8:41 AM