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Winter Technology Training Available for UMBC Faculty

Attend virtually or in-person

With the winter semester quickly approaching, we are excited to announce that the Instructional Technology team will offer several training workshops for UMBC faculty during the winter months....

Posted: December 3, 2014, 7:32 PM

WT/SP 2015 Courses Created on Bb Hosting Site on 12/2/14

Bb course shells for WT2015 and SP2015 were created on December 2, 2014 on the new Blackboard managed hosting site. Bb shells are available for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, field or...

Posted: December 3, 2014, 12:07 PM

LDAP-master and webadmin downtime on 12/18/2014

Hello all. On Thursday, December 18th starting at 2pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be...

Posted: December 3, 2014, 10:26 AM

Easy and Efficient: Electronic Time Sheets are Live

Electronic Time Sheets Live in DoIT, HR, Admin & Finance!

When it comes to going green, composting and recycling aren’t the only things UMBC is doing to help the environment. Recently, the university has also started the process of switching from paper...

Posted: December 2, 2014, 9:52 AM

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