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VPN Now Available for iOS4 Devices

Campus VPN connections are now possible on iOS4 devices such as the iPad, iPhone and iTouch.  Juniper Networks has release their SSL VPN application called Junos Pulse which can be freely download...

Posted: February 17, 2011, 1:09 PM

UMBC Email Problems on February 9

Results of Review of Email Problems on February 9th

Last Wednesday afternoon, Feburary 9th, DoIT experienced a mail system error on one of UMBC's major mail servers used for sending mail. This caused mail trying to be sent from UMBC to be delayed...

Posted: February 15, 2011, 6:25 AM

UPDATE:Microsoft Blocking UMBC Mail

UPDATE Feb 15, 2011: Microsoft has lifted their block on mail originating from UMBC. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Over the...

Posted: February 14, 2011, 3:18 PM

Educause Publishes Video Demo of UMBC "Check My...

Full Title: Educause Publishes Video Demo of UMBC "Check My Activity" Tool for Students The final 2010 issue of EDUCAUSE Quarterly includes a brief (5 minute) video demo of UMBC's "Check My...

Posted: February 4, 2011, 12:58 PM

Student Access to Blackboard Courses

Students must be officially registered in a UMBC course via myUMBC in order to be auto enrolled in a Bb course shell. Auto enrollment takes place multiple times daily, so students will appear in...

Posted: January 25, 2011, 4:48 PM

Known Issue: Bb Course Auto Enrollment (RESOLVED)

The auto enrollment script that takes students who are officially enrolled in SA and places them into the corresponding Blackboard course shell stopped working on Thursday, Jan. 13. It was...

Posted: January 25, 2011, 4:38 PM

Update and Tips on Blackboard Faculty Support

As I announced this past summer, DoIT is no longer using Presidium Learning for Blackboard faculty support (it is intended only for 24/7 support of students). Instead, DoIT's Help Desk and...

Posted: January 25, 2011, 4:11 PM

Known Issue: Instructors Can't Import Bb Course Over 250MB

DoIT has confirmed a known issue that affects faculty trying to export an old Blackboard course and import it into a new, empty shell: The export works fine, but if the resulting file is larger...

Posted: January 24, 2011, 11:29 PM

Changes to myUMBC for January 21, 2011

Group Documents and Gmail Preview

Two new features have just been added to myUMBC! Group Documents Groups can now share files and links with their group members using the new Documents tool. The old Pages tool, used to create...

Posted: January 21, 2011, 7:46 AM