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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

Instructional Technology for the Month of November

Box  is an online file sharing system that can be accessed from multiple devices, including computers, smart phones, and tablets. Box  files can be easily shared with others by adding them as...

Posted: November 1, 2014, 9:14 AM

Academic Program Review report updated in REX

Two new columns have been added to the Academic Program Review report.  The columns are 'Combined Enroll Total' and 'Primary Flag', which will indicate whether the section is the primary section...

Posted: October 29, 2014, 2:46 PM

VPN client changing to JunOS Pulse over the next few weeks

Please note the change in rollout timing

The current campus VPN client, Network Connect, does not work with the new MAC Yosemite operating system and is no longer supported by the Vendor for the current Mac or PC operating system. We...

Posted: October 29, 2014, 8:58 AM

TechSmith Relay Update

Scheduled Maintenance

We will update the software on the TechSmith Relay server Friday, October 31 at 9:00 AM. The update should take about an hour. If one attempts to upload a recording during this window of time then...

Posted: October 28, 2014, 9:47 AM

UMBC Establishes Adobe Campus Site License

Adobe Creative Cloud now Available through myUMBC

This summer, working through the Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC), UMBC established a faculty/staff site license with Adobe for their new Creative Cloud offering (see detailed list...

Posted: October 26, 2014, 2:03 PM