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Server Patching December 19th from 6pm to midnight

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure will be conducting its quarterly patching of systems.  While many of the systems will be patched without any service...

Posted: November 26, 2014, 12:25 PM

RT webpage color scheme enhancement

DoIT's Andrea Mocko has experimented with adjusting the color scheme for RT to have more of a UMBC look and feel. To that end I will ask folks to take a look at our development RT to see the...

Posted: November 18, 2014, 2:08 PM

sites.umbc.edu Scheduled Maintenance 12/6/2014

On Saturday December 6th, 2014 we will be upgrading the software running the sites.umbc.edu environment. Maintenance is scheduled for the whole day. The sites.umbc.edu website Admin Dashboard will...

Posted: November 18, 2014, 1:13 PM

Update: UMBC Establishes Adobe Campus Site License

Adobe Creative Cloud for Personal Machines

Adobe Creative Cloud Software now available on Faculty and Staff Personal Machines   As previously announced, UMBC is now licensed site wide for the use of the full Adobe Creative Cloud Suite of...

Posted: November 14, 2014, 9:20 AM

Updates to Graduation and Plan reports in REX

New columns have been added to the Graduation Application Status report to show the Reporting Plan, Reporting College, and Reporting Org for each of the student's plans (up to 4 per student). The...

Posted: November 13, 2014, 9:49 PM

Campus Help System (RT) hits new milestone

UMBC uses an open source system called Request Tracker (RT) from a company named BestPractical to provide help to the UMBC campus community at large. In fact UMBC has been recognized on the...

Posted: November 13, 2014, 8:02 AM

RT hits new milestone

On Tue Nov 11, 2014 14:11:24 2014 RT received its 500,000th ticket since going live Feb 23, 2009. In this time RT has grown from a DoIT centric Help System to a campus wide system serving 25+...

Posted: November 13, 2014, 7:50 AM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 11/21 to 1 am 11/22

Per the announced Fall 2014 maintenance schedule, the UMBC Blackboard server will be offline from 10 pm Friday 11/21 to 1 am Saturday 11/22.  This downtime is during the regularly scheduled...

Posted: November 12, 2014, 10:12 AM

Online Learning Consortium Offers Free Faculty Training

Learn best practices from experts & spark new ideas!

Through a University System of Maryland partnership with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), DoIT is pleased to offer an exceptional online training opportunity to UMBC full-time and part-time...

Posted: November 11, 2014, 11:42 AM

Bb Achievements to Support Competency Based Learning

Use badges to motivate & reward students via gamification

As announced earlier this semester, Winter and Spring 2015 courses will be hosted by Blackboard directly instead of by DoIT. As part of this change, we will also upgrade to the Spring 2014 version...

Posted: November 4, 2014, 1:01 PM