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Resolved: Slow RT (Request Tracker) Performance

UPDATE DoIT staff have identified an issue with the system storage which has been fixed. Please contact DoIT if you are still experiencing the slowness identified earlier today. DoIT has...

Posted: January 17, 2012, 10:43 AM

SP2012 Blackboard Drop-in Sessions

DoIT is offering drop in Blackboard Drop-in sessions to assist and help faculty prepare for the spring semester The following drop in sessions will be held in Engineering 025. A DoIT staff member...

Posted: January 9, 2012, 1:31 PM

SP2012 Bb Courses Auto Created and Enrolled

Following yesterday's announcement of a new "snapshot" data synchronization process between SA and Blackboard, DoIT reports that a Bb course shell has been auto created and enrolled for all Spring...

Posted: December 29, 2011, 9:12 AM

WT2012 Bb Courses Enrolled Daily at 9 a.m., For Now

SP2012 Bb Courses Will Be Created & Enrolled Later This Week

DoIT successfully tests new "snapshot" process for synchronizing Bb courses with Student Administration (SA) updates of official course enrollments.

Posted: December 28, 2011, 11:05 AM

WT2012 Bb Courses Enrolled Daily at 9 a.m., For Now

To resolve reported issues with Winter and Spring 2012 Blackboard courses, DoIT has successfully tested Blackboard's "snapshot" process for automatically creating and enrolling all UMBC Bb courses...

Posted: December 28, 2011, 9:42 AM

DoIT Reports Issues Creating WT & SP 2012 Bb Courses

While the campus Blackboard server was successfully upgraded on Friday, December 23, DoIT has encountered issues with the planned auto-creation of Winter and Spring 2012 Bb course shells. We are...

Posted: December 26, 2011, 8:07 PM

Blackboard Learn 9.1 SP 6 Upgrade Completed

The scheduled upgrade for the Blackboard Learn 9.1 system was completed at approximately 2:30 pm on Friday, Dec. 23, and the system was made available to the campus community at that time. We...

Posted: December 23, 2011, 2:22 PM

Bb Down for Upgrade on 12/22

Reminder to faculty to Download Grades

This upgrade will help address a problem with broken links to course content reported earlier in the semester.

Posted: December 23, 2011, 9:49 AM