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Poll Everywhere Pilot Continues for SP2023

Supporting Engagement with New Audience Response System

DoIT is pleased to announce the availability of Poll Everywhere, which now includes the ability of students, faculty and staff to login with their UMBC credentials. Many UMBC faculty are already...

Posted: December 13, 2022, 3:33 PM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Hiring for the Spring

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 springsemester and beyond. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on...

Posted: December 6, 2022, 12:07 PM

Analytics & Student Success Technologies Annual Report FY22

What we've been up to in a four-minute read

The Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Student Success Technologies Group is part of the Provost's Office and the Division of Information Technology.  Our component parts include the Business...

Posted: December 5, 2022, 10:56 AM

Dec Ultra Update Features Improved Drag & Drop, Course Links

New report for student progress through course content

This month, Ultra updates bring improvements to drag and drop functionality to the course outline, allowing instructors to easily move and rearrange content. Keyboard commands can also be used to...

Posted: December 1, 2022, 11:21 AM

NDLW recap: Faculty, Staff, Students Discuss Online Learning

Join us for monthly candid conversations starting SP23

This year's National Distance Learning Week 2022 Lunchtime Series (November 7-11) at UMBC created space for candid conversations about online learning. These conversations featured 11 panelists...

Posted: November 14, 2022, 5:04 PM

Accessibility Essentials: Make Online Courses Accessible

Design Your Course Content for All Learners

UMBC's National Distance Learning Week 2022 Lunchtime Series created space for candid conversations about online learning. The candid conversation on Monday, November 7th focused on course design...

Posted: November 10, 2022, 3:16 PM

Quarterly patching downtime - 11/18 & 11/19

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, November 18th and Saturday, November 19th.  While many...

Posted: November 9, 2022, 10:44 AM

Account Data Breach: START

Russian streaming service impacts over 7 million accounts

In August 2022, news broke of an attack against the Russian streaming service "START". The incident led to the exposure of 44 million records containing 7.4 million unique email addresses. The...

Posted: November 4, 2022, 3:08 PM

Ultra Tests Gain Hot Spot Questions & Pagination in November

New reports for course activity and student performance

Ultra assessments gain two new features in the November update including hot spot questions and pagination. Hot spot questions allow instructors to assess a student's knowledge of visual content,...

Posted: November 3, 2022, 8:22 AM