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DoIT's Technology Support Center Hiring for the Fall

Are you looking for a part-time job? Come work for us!

The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional student consultants to work during the fall semester and beyond. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on...

Posted: September 19, 2023, 11:40 AM

DoIT's Tom Penniston Presents Paper at Copenhagen Conference

Sharing UMBC's Story Globally

DoIT's Coordinator of Learning Analytics, Tom Penniston, recently presented his paper (UMBC login req'd), Toward a New Paradigm: Learning Analytics 2.0, at the 25th International Conference on...

Posted: September 15, 2023, 8:27 AM

Scheduled Downtime of taki Completed*

*Mostly!

To all taki users, The taki downtime scheduled for today from 0800-1700 has completed a little behind schedule. We have updated the workload manager, SLURM, from major version 19 to major...

Posted: September 13, 2023, 7:09 PM

Campus Data Center Outage from Storms Last night

As a result of the storms and campus power blink, the main campus data center briefly lost power around 11:10pm Tuesday night. The power backup systems for the room carried the load through...

Posted: September 13, 2023, 2:04 AM

Ada cluster outage - 9/13/2023

Hello all. The Campus experienced a short power outage earlier tonight that unfortunately took the main data center offline for a short period of time.   The Ada cluster is located in this...

Posted: September 13, 2023, 2:00 AM

Reminder: taki Downtime Weds 9/13

To all taki users: System Administrators will be taking the taki cluster environment offline Wednesday September 13 from 0800-1700. This is to upgrade the workload management software, SLURM....

Posted: September 12, 2023, 9:10 AM

Call for Proposals: Blackboard's Digital Teaching Symposium

Submissions due September 18, 2023

Do you have a digital teaching best practice or experience to share with other educators? What strategies help educators excel and thrive in a shifting higher education landscape? Share your...

Posted: September 7, 2023, 4:02 PM

Major Campus Network Fiber Cut Thursday 8/31

Yesterday morning around 11am the campus suffered a cut to its main fiber optic cable feed that provides Internet connectivity to the campus. The cable was damaged by construction crews located a...

Posted: September 1, 2023, 4:21 PM

Improved course management tools for Ultra in September

Preview new AI course design assistant tools also coming

As the fall semester starts, the next update for Ultra courses brings improvements to the course management tools and a new stock image resource for course banners. Additionally, faculty will also...

Posted: August 31, 2023, 1:37 PM

Support student success with Ultra’s progress tracking tools

Discover how and when students engage with course content

The success of students in a Blackboard course is often dependent on their level of engagement and their ability to stay on track with course content and assignments. As an instructor, it's...

Posted: August 30, 2023, 9:11 AM