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Introducing the New Alternate Delivery Program

Three Skill Tracks Now Available

The Alternate Delivery Program (ADP) provides financial, technical, and pedagogical support to faculty who agree to redesign an existing face-to-face (F2F) course for online or hybrid (part...

Posted: November 23, 2015, 2:08 PM

WT/SP2016 Courses Created in Blackboard on 11/20/2015

Blackboard course shells for WT2016 and SP2016 were created on November 20, 2015. Bb shells are available for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, field or discussion) listed in the UMBC...

Posted: November 23, 2015, 8:19 AM

2015-11-09 Performance Issues

RT

Early this morning a report came into DoIT indicating an issue with RT performance. For a large number of users the RT-at-a-Glance was not loading. The issue was a by-product of a SPAM volume...

Posted: November 9, 2015, 11:18 AM

DoIT to Host Techfest in Spring 2016 Semester

Share your favorite technology with the UMBC community

Techfest is an effort to bring together UMBC students, faculty, and staff to share their favorite technologies with the UMBC community through several workshops. Participants will be able to...

Posted: November 3, 2015, 7:54 AM

Meet the DoIT Staff Serving on the Professional Staff Senate

What the PSS is and what role each member serves as

The Professional Staff Senate (PSS) represents the interests and concerns of the exempt staff at UMBC. The PSS certifies elections of members to committees as provided in the Plan of Organization...

Posted: November 2, 2015, 7:34 AM

DoIT Announces VoiceThread CFP

Test drive interactive tools for online discussions

If you want to move beyond the traditional text-based discussion board, DoIT is looking for faculty volunteers to pilot VoiceThread (VT), a cloud-based application that takes an audio/visual...

Posted: October 30, 2015, 2:31 PM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Now Hiring

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

**This position is no longer accepting applications.** The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional consultants to work during the Fall. Please see our job description...

Posted: October 30, 2015, 12:30 PM

Celebrate National Distance Learning Week

November 9-13, 2015

In celebration of National Distance Learning Week, November 9-13, 2015, we invite faculty, teaching assistants, and students to join us for these free webinars from the Online Learning Consortium,...

Posted: October 29, 2015, 2:26 PM

Laptop Loans Available at AOK Library & Gallery

Located at the Media Desk on the second floor of the library

Note: The following is adapted from a Library news story originally published on 8/15/15  Thumbnail shows equipment part of the program which includes a choice in either a Dell Latitude or...

Posted: October 28, 2015, 1:10 PM

Reminder-Clicker Orders Due to Bookstore by October 23!

Faculty who plan to use clickers for instruction during the ​​Spring 2016 semester will need to have device order(s) submitted to the Bookstore no later than Friday, October 23, 2015. This...

Posted: October 23, 2015, 10:27 AM