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Blackboard Downtime Scheduled Sat. Morning, Oct 3rd, 2-5 AM

Essential system updates & routine maintenance expected

Blackboard engineers will perform essential system updates and routine maintenance on Saturday morning, October 3, 2015 from 2 AM - 5 AM. Blackboard will be offline during this period.  This...

Posted: September 21, 2015, 11:30 AM

Sprint Cellular Service on Campus

Sprint's Cellular Equipment is Down

Earlier today, the Sprint Cellular equipment on campus caught on fire.  Thankfully, the fire was contained and did not spread beyond Sprint's site.  Sprint came to campus to begin repair work, and...

Posted: September 16, 2015, 11:51 AM

New reports about REX Activities

Two new reports have been created in REX to allow users to search REX usage and various activities executed by departments and users. Results are displayed...

Posted: September 15, 2015, 2:53 PM

RT-at-a-Glance Rights Suspension

RT

RT experienced a major performance issue over the 2015 Labor Day weekend. After many hours of research, including vendor involvement, the issue was identified as a few users having some items on...

Posted: September 15, 2015, 7:02 AM

Review of DoIT Communications

Notification by DoIT Student Worker Was a Mistake

To The UMBC Campus Community, Recently a DoIT student employee contacted members of the campus that they may have a number of files on their computers containing personally identifiable...

Posted: September 10, 2015, 7:18 PM

Fall 2015 Begin Term Census data is now available in REX

IRADS has released the official data for Fall 2015.  It should now appear as a Term option in the Census Data reports in REX.  As a reminder, in REX official Day 10 numbers are labeled with a...

Posted: September 10, 2015, 12:22 PM

Network and Wireless Outages Today (September 9th)

Earlier today around 1:00pm there was a unplanned outage to the wireless networks across campus. Full service was restored a few minutes later.  Later in the day, around 4:50pm there was an...

Posted: September 9, 2015, 5:34 PM

Admitted Students by Plan (Ugrad) report updated in REX

The Admitted Students by Plan (Ugrad) report in REX has been modified to allow for selection by Reporting Plan instead of Plan.  Rather than selecting each track/degree code for each plan, you...

Posted: September 3, 2015, 10:26 AM

Intermittent Delays Connecting to TurningPoint Server

Issue Has Been Resloved

This issue has been RESOLVED and the server is now functioning properly.  Turning Technologies, the company that supports the TurningPoint clickers, is currently experiencing intermittent...

Posted: September 1, 2015, 3:58 PM

Recommended Technology

TechSmith Relay

Sometimes it’s just easier to show than tell. Using TechSmith Relay, faculty can capture and narrate the content displayed on their computers and then publish an online “screencast” video tutorial...

Posted: September 1, 2015, 1:31 PM