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UMBC Email Outage for non-Gmail users

Email impacted for 110 faculty/staff - please read.

Starting at 11am on May 1, 2014, DoIT began a cleanup process on our non-Gmail based email servers, named Cryus.  There was an error in this process and it inadvertently removed the mail of...

Posted: May 1, 2014, 5:09 PM

SU2014 Bb Course Shells Created 4/17/14

Bb course shells for SU2014 were created on April 17, 2014 on the Bb production server at http://blackboard.umbc.edu.  Enrollments for SU2014 courses will continue to be updated daily....

Posted: May 1, 2014, 11:00 AM

Students More Accepting of Using Clickers for Exams

2nd Clicker Pilot Continues Comparison with Scantron Testing

To continue its evaluation of clickers as a possible alternative to scantron “bubble sheet” assessments, DoIT again partnered with Dr. Tamara Mendelson from Biology in a pilot this semester using...

Posted: April 30, 2014, 9:11 AM

Known Issue: Missing Bb Modules Caused by Editing

DoIT recomends users not edit module settings

5/19/14 Update: This issue is fixed in Service Pack (SP) 14 of version 9.1. We are on SP 13, but are unlikely to upgrade before January 2015 given overlapping dates when final grades are due...

Posted: April 29, 2014, 1:40 PM

Campus Webmail to be Upgraded on May 28

Not applicable to google mail users.

On Wednesday, May 28 at 7am, DoIT will be performing an upgrade of the campus webmail environment on our dedicated Cyrus mail server. The current webmail environment is extremely out of date on...

Posted: April 25, 2014, 1:50 PM

Using Box to Collect and Assess Job Applications

Enhance and streamline your department job searches

An increasing number of departments are using the Box "upload by email" option as an effective way to conduct job searches. Apart from making it easy to collect applications, committee members can...

Posted: April 22, 2014, 3:13 PM

Temporary myUMBC Outage

Friday, April 11 from 6:30 to 7:00 am

On Friday, April 11th at 6:30 am, UMBC DoIT will be performing maintenance on the myUMBC network.  This maintenance should take no longer than 30 minutes, but during this time myUMBC will be...

Posted: April 10, 2014, 3:21 PM

Warning: Email Phishing Attacks Targeting Faculty & Staff

Never give out your username or password

DoIT continues to receive reports of faculty and staff receiving that is part of a targeted "phishing" attack to steal your username and password information or infect your computer.  One...

Posted: April 10, 2014, 12:48 AM

UMBC Response to Heartbleed Security Incident

Issue potentially affects "https" web sites using Open SSL

A major security vulnerability named Heartbleed was disclosed Monday night.  The vulnerability affects a large portion of websites on the Internet, and here at UMBC, that use the "https:" protocol...

Posted: April 9, 2014, 7:40 PM