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Changes to myUMBC for August 9 & 10, 2010

A Two-fer!? And boy is it ever!

I was lazy last night (read: sleep deprived) and didn't write a post, so you get all of yesterday's goodness mixed in with today's: Start - The new Start page has been enabled.  We hope you like...

Posted: August 10, 2010, 11:43 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 8/13...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 8/13 to 1 am Sat. 8/14The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for three hours of scheduled maintenance starting this Friday, August 13,...

Posted: August 9, 2010, 6:32 PM

FYI: Bb Courses Older Than FA2004 Will Be Deleted 8/26

In accordance with the Blackboard Course Retention Policy, all Blackboard courses older than Fall 2004 will be deleted. DoIT has scheduled this removal for Thursday, August 26, 2010 at 5 p.m....

Posted: August 9, 2010, 6:19 PM

Server Failure Results in Blackboard Outage

UPDATE: Service to Blackboard was fully restored at 5:35 p.m. ------------------------------ At 2:50 pm on Monday, August 9th the Blackboard file server crashed. In consultation with VMWare,...

Posted: August 9, 2010, 5:35 PM

Changes to myUMBC for August 6, 2010

So much stuff, we had to have a meeting to remember it all.

This one is a doozy... As we approach the final week before launch, we're putting the finishing touches on lots of little things around the site.  Most of the changes are subtle ones that you...

Posted: August 6, 2010, 11:28 PM

Changes to myUMBC for August 5, 2010

What's your favoritest favorite?

I'll keep this one short since its late... Favorites - you can now easily bookmark various pages from the new Favorites menu.  You can also now reorder, rename, and easily delete favorites....

Posted: August 6, 2010, 1:55 AM

Changes to myUMBC for August 4, 2010

Lights, Camera, Action!... ok, enough cheese. We have Media!

Media - We've been working on this one long and hard and are very proud to offer this to the community. Media provides a way to share your video and images from YouTube, Vimeo and Flickr, as well...

Posted: August 4, 2010, 9:44 PM

Changes to myUMBC for August 3, 2010

If you Feed it, they will come!

Group Feed Subscriptions - Groups can now subscribe to external content through the use of feeds.  Simply enter in the web address to an RSS or Atom feed from your groups Tumblr or Blogger blog,...

Posted: August 4, 2010, 12:30 AM

New Door Access System

Many people don't know that there is an entire infrastructure of hardware and software behind all the electronic locks that are in use across campus. Whenever someone swipes their UMBC ID in a...

Posted: August 3, 2010, 3:23 PM

New Scantron Forms For Fall

Starting this Fall, the Department of Information Technology will begin using new, green Scantron test scoring sheets that have been customized for UMBC. These forms utilize Campus IDs for...

Posted: August 3, 2010, 2:42 PM