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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

Innovative Course Design Using Digital Stories

Erickson School of Aging Partners with New Media Studio

A partnership between the Office of Undergraduate Education, Erickson School of Aging, and DoIT's New Media Studio resulted in a introductory course that connected students with residents of the...

Posted: December 21, 2011, 8:03 AM