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Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 2/28 to 1 am 3/1

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 2/28 to 1 am Saturday 3/1.  This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: February 27, 2014, 8:37 AM

Spring Blackboard Drop-in Hours

Got Questions? We Have Answers!

To support faculty ongoing Blackboard support needs,  DoIT will be offering additional weekly drop-in hours beginning Monday, February 24. A DoIT staff member will be available to work one-on-one...

Posted: February 19, 2014, 10:21 AM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Hiring Additional Students

Are you available in the morning? Come work for us!

The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional consultants to work during the mornings for the Spring semester. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on...

Posted: February 11, 2014, 8:57 AM

Fall 2013 SCEQ Profiles

Fall 2013 results now available for the SCEQ Profiles on REX. Breadcrumbs are: Home > Census Data > SCEQ > SCEQ Profiles

Posted: January 31, 2014, 3:28 PM

DoIT Update on Recent Webmail, Blackboard Issues

Load Balancer "Root Cause" to be Reviewed This Semester

To the UMBC Campus Community, Over the past 7-10 days, DoIT has been troubleshooting technical issues with the Cyrus campus Webmail system and Blackboard. Initially, we saw these as separate...

Posted: January 24, 2014, 3:14 PM

Blackboard Known Issues Resolved

Creating & Reusing Assessment Issues Working Normally

1/22/14 Update We appear to be back to normal now.  1/21/14 Update Spoke too soon. We're not seeing as many cases of export/import issues (#2 below), but we are still seeing issues...

Posted: January 17, 2014, 6:14 PM

DoIT to Restart Bb System on Wed., 1/16/14 @ 10 a.m.

Known Issue with Bb Export/Import and Assessments

1/16/14 UPDATE DoIT will be taking down Bb again at 10 a.m. today to address the issues below. We anticipate this will take one hour. 1/15/14 UPDATE This morning's restart did not...

Posted: January 14, 2014, 4:57 PM

Blackboard Upgrade Completed

WT2014 courses, placement testing remain on separate server

DoIT has completed the upgrade to Blackboard version 9.1.13. Winter 2014 courses remain on a separate server and will be merged into the main production system after the start of the Spring 2014...

Posted: January 10, 2014, 11:40 AM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Hiring Additional Students

Come work for us!

The DoIT Technology Support Center is now hiring student consultants for the Spring semester. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on UMBCworks to apply. TSC Student...

Posted: January 8, 2014, 10:43 AM

RT issue on 12-23-2013

RT experienced an issue this morning between 8:30am and 9:00am which prevented access. The tech staff rebooted all the services and this cleaned up whatever was causing the issue. While we cannot...

Posted: December 23, 2013, 10:58 AM