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New REX report available - Application Trends by Plan

This new report provides Applied, Admitted, Confirmed, and Enrolled counts for the selected term as of the selected date, as well as the two previous terms for comparison purposes.  Counts are...

Posted: March 19, 2013, 1:20 PM

UMBC To Discontinue Five Legacy Email Domains

April 4 - Legacy Email Delivery Will Be Stopped

UMBC will discontinue delivery of email sent to five legacy email domains beginning April 4, 2013. During the past two months there has been an increase in spam to the campus. Analysis of the mail...

Posted: March 15, 2013, 11:51 AM

Kerberos Upgrade

Kerberos upgrade Wednesday March 20th, 8:30am to 11am

On Wednesday March 20th starting at 8:30am DoIT will be upgrading our Kerberos environment.  This upgrade is being done to achieve audit compliance as well as overhaul an old system.  The outage...

Posted: March 14, 2013, 4:41 PM

Mathematica and Wolfram Pro Training, April 9th 2:30-3:45

Using Mathematica for Teaching & Research

Teaching & Research with Mathematica 9 and Wolfram|Alpha Pro Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:30-3:45pm, including Q&A Rm. 401, Math/Psyc Building, UMBC This talk illustrates capabilities in...

Posted: March 13, 2013, 3:06 PM

Userpages Downtime

Userpages will be down from 9am to 12pm on March 16th

The UMBC userpages web server will be taken down for system maintenance on Saturday, March 16 at 9am.  This downtime is expected to be completed in 3 hours.  During this time, any web page hosted...

Posted: March 13, 2013, 2:01 PM

Qualtrics Survey Tool Launched for CAHSS

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is happy to announce the release of Qualtrics, an online survey instrument, for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS). Beginning...

Posted: March 12, 2013, 2:41 PM

Blackboard Maintenance Scheduled for 3/15, 6-9 p.m.

DoIT has been working with Blackboard on an issue that requires maintenance and a restart of our main production server this Friday, March 15, at 6 to 9 p.m. Normally, we would wait until our...

Posted: March 11, 2013, 9:24 PM

Changes to the Blackboard WT2013 Server

http://bb-winter.umbc.edu will go offline on 3/15

DoIT staff will be making several changes to the WT2013 Bb server in preparation for archiving/ restoring the WT2013 courses to the UMBC Bb production server.  All WT2013 instructors have been...

Posted: February 28, 2013, 4:26 PM

New Faculty Annual Report Pilot Begins With 9 Departments

To:Digital Measures Pilot Departments and Deans From:Jack Suess, Michael Dillon, Arnold Foelster Date: February 26, 2013 Re:Update on Digital Measures Implementation Digital Measures is a...

Posted: February 28, 2013, 1:44 PM