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Bb Courses Older Than FA2007 Will Be Deleted on 8/23/13

In accordance with the Blackboard Course Retention Policy, all Blackboard courses older than  Fall 2007 will be deleted. DoIT has scheduled this removal for Friday, August 23, 2013.  Instructors...

Posted: August 16, 2013, 3:09 PM

Blackboard to be Upgraded Jan. 8-10, 2014

WT2014 Courses Available Dec.4, 2013, on Separate Server

To install the latest version of Blackboard, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) will upgrade UMBC's production Blackboard system from January 8 to 10, 2014.  During this time, Winter...

Posted: August 16, 2013, 3:08 PM

LDAP, Kerberos and Webadmin downtime on 8/20/2013

Hello all. On Tuesday, August 20th starting at 8am LDAP Master, Kerberos and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be...

Posted: August 14, 2013, 10:57 AM

RT-at-a-Glance tip of the day

For those of you who wish to have your RT-at-a-Glance refresh often and yet have a large number of dashboard items you desire from time to time, there is an option to have the best of both...

Posted: August 8, 2013, 3:20 PM

DoIT Student Intern Published in Educause Review

Please join me in congratulating Laura Lefavor on her recent article published in Educause Review Online called Beyond the IT Help Desk. EDUCAUSE® is a nonprofit association and the foremost...

Posted: August 6, 2013, 6:20 PM

DoIT Student Intern Published in Educause Review

Please join me in congratulating Laura Lefavor on her recent article published in Educause Review Online called Beyond the IT Help Desk. EDUCAUSE® is a nonprofit association and the foremost...

Posted: August 6, 2013, 6:17 PM

Blackboard will be down 10 p.m. to midnight tonight, 8/5/13

SS Faculty Can Download 4-Week Bb Grades to Excel

To install a missing patch set that is stalling back end processes, including faculty export and import of content for Fall 2013 courses, DoIT will be taking Blackboard down from 10 p.m. to...

Posted: August 5, 2013, 1:48 PM

Blackboard Scheduled Restart: Friday, August 2, at 10pm

To address an issue with some automated, backend processes not completing, DoIT will be restarting the Blackboard systemon Friday, August 2, at 10 p.m. At this point, it is not expected that the...

Posted: August 1, 2013, 2:00 PM

There will be no REX Student load this weekend

Due to maintenance being performed on the PeopleSoft Student Administration (SA) system this weekend, we will not be refreshing the student information in REX this weekend.  REX will continue...

Posted: July 26, 2013, 7:18 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 7/26 to 1 am 7/27

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 7/26 to 1 am Saturday 7/27.  This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: July 24, 2013, 3:14 PM