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Track student engagement with Ultra content in October

Improved auto-save for student assessments

In the October update, scheduled for this week, instructors who teach in Ultra courses will be able to track and view student engagement with course content. Tracking how, when, and what students...

Posted: October 4, 2022, 12:50 PM

Hurricane-Related Scams

An Advisory From CISA

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has posted a warning about scammers pretending to be charitable agencies either soliciting contributions for hurricane victims or trying...

Posted: September 30, 2022, 2:18 PM

Upcoming Akindi Webinar: 10/11/22

Learn how to implement the paper-based assessments

To help Instructors prepare for upcoming paper-based multiple-choice assessments, Akindi is offering a live webinar Tuesday, Oct 11th at 1:00 PM (ET). Their Customer Success Lead will walk...

Posted: September 30, 2022, 9:41 AM

Reminder: Intel Roadmap NOW

URL to join Webex is in myUMBC post!

Dear HPCF Community, Right now, Tuesday, 09/27/2022, 12:00noon-01:00pm, virtual online meeting, we have the chance to talk Intel engineers about their products. They will provide an update...

Posted: September 27, 2022, 11:55 AM

FA22 Data Science & Learning Analytics Workshops

For the Fall 2022 semester, DoIT's Analytics & Instructional Technology groups will continue to offer student success and learning analytics-related workshops for the UMBC community.  All...

Posted: September 23, 2022, 10:08 AM

Resolution to recent Wireless Issues across campus

I wanted to thank the campus community for their patience and assistance as we worked through the recent wireless issues. As of late last week we were able to identify the root problem in the...

Posted: September 22, 2022, 12:01 PM

Virtual Meeting on Intel Technology Roadmap

URL posted in myUMBC post!!!

Dear HPCF Community, This upcoming Tuesday, 09/27/2022, 12:00noon-01:00pm, virtual online meeting, we have the chance to talk Intel engineers about their products. They will provide an...

Posted: September 21, 2022, 3:57 PM

Poll Everywhere Pilot Adds myUMBC login

Use mobile devices to participate in live polls

At the end of Spring 2022, DoIT announced an intention to pilot Poll Everywhere as an alternative to clickers. After much anticipation, DoIT is pleased to announce the launch of our Poll...

Posted: September 21, 2022, 2:17 PM

Job Phishing Alert: Work Remotely and Earn Weekly

Another Fake Job Scam Pretending To Be From Prof. Hennigan

Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received multiple reports of job phishing emails from a Gmail account. The phishers are pretending to offer a research assistant  job. Below...

Posted: September 20, 2022, 5:50 PM