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DoIT Publishes 2010 Annual Report

Jack Suess, VP of IT and CIO Welcome to the Division of Information Technology’s (DoIT) first annual report. Reflecting on this time last year, our focus was on four major initiatives: • The...

Posted: September 25, 2010, 11:36 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 9/10...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 9/10 to 1 am Sat. 9/11The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for three hours of maintenance starting this Friday, September 10, at 10...

Posted: September 8, 2010, 3:34 PM

Quiz Errors on Blackboard- UPDATE

UPDATE: DoIT staff implemented the suggested fix during the scheduled downtime on Friday evening, Sept. 10th. This fix should provide a resolution to the "no action config" errors in quizzes and...

Posted: September 2, 2010, 6:55 PM

SPSS License Update Fall 2010 Updated 9-30

Posted 10-01-2010 1:35PM IBM-SPSS has notified us that the new license generation program for the network license where our 900 lab computers point is not working, disabling SPSS in the labs at...

Posted: September 2, 2010, 12:53 PM

Instructor Display of Bb Menus Using Firefox Now Fixed

Yesterday, DoIT began receiving reports from instructors that their course menus were obscured when they used the Firefox web browser (see example at right). We worked with Blackboard, which...

Posted: September 1, 2010, 11:11 AM

Performance of myUMBC on Tuesday, August 31, 2010

Today, myUMBC users have been experiencing authentication errors and slowness. Initially, the typical message was a “shibboleth listener error.” We believe we have identified the cause of the...

Posted: August 31, 2010, 6:34 PM

Sign Up For Google@UMBC Today!

If you are ready to experience an entirely new collaborative experience then Google@UMBC is right for you. If you are interested in signing up or just want to know more then please visit UMBC's...

Posted: August 30, 2010, 2:16 AM

Updated REX Reports

Student Group filter added to some reports

Student Group filters have been added to the Admitted Students by Plan (Ugrad), Advising and Registration Status by Plan, and Student Enrollment by Plan reports which are located in the...

Posted: August 28, 2010, 10:32 PM

New REX report

Graduation Application Status report added

A new report, Graduation Application Status, has been added to the Student Administration Reports in myUMBC.  This report provides a list of students by graduation application status.

Posted: August 28, 2010, 1:55 PM

How New Employees/Instructors Get Access to Bb Courses

As announced earlier this month, all FA2010 Blackboard courses were auto-created on July 15. Since then, DoIT has auto-created new Blackboard course shells every day, whenever a new course with a...

Posted: August 26, 2010, 4:11 PM