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Bookstore Discounts/Refunds Turning Clicker "Bundles"

Decision aims to clear pre-pandemic "hardware" inventory

In collaboration with DoIT, UMBC's Bookstore has reduced the price of all clicker "bundles" (hardware + software) to match the direct purchase price for a one year code ($34.99) by Turning Point...

Posted: September 7, 2022, 1:20 PM

Downtime Scheduled

To all HPCF users, On Tuesday September 13, 2022 both HPCF clusters (ada & taki) as well as the other compute systems that make use of HPCF Research Storage will be down and inaccessible...

Posted: September 7, 2022, 12:20 PM

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 7, 2022, 9:34 AM

Job Scam Alert: Research Assistant Position

  Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received a report of job phishing emails from a Gmail account (nikkijoy39@gmail.com) . The phishers are pretending to offer a job as a...

Posted: September 6, 2022, 3:50 PM

Update on WIFI issues with temporary fix in place

Thank you all for your patience as we worked on this issue today. The updates made last night didn't resolve the issue, but in working with Cisco we believe we have identified the problem, and...

Posted: September 1, 2022, 2:40 PM

Intermittent Wifi Connectivity Issues Yesterday

Throughout the day a number of community members experienced trouble connecting to the campus wireless networks, both Eduroam and UMBCVisitor. Our networking team was triaging the issue throughout...

Posted: September 1, 2022, 7:39 AM

Copy Rubrics Between Ultra Courses Starting in September

New features also focus on assessment & grading enhancements

In early September, Ultra courses will receive updates in several key areas that benefit instructors and students. Maintaining the trend focusing on assessment and grading, these updates also...

Posted: August 31, 2022, 9:29 AM

FA2022 Instructional Technology Update

The UMBC Instructional Technology Update is provided by the Division of Information Technology for students, faculty and staff. If you have questions or need help, please consult the Blackboard...

Posted: August 26, 2022, 2:54 PM

(Resolved) Issues with taki batch partition

To all taki users, We were able to resolve the networking issue affecting the batch hardware partition. It is possible that running SLURM tasks on this partition were left in a bad state....

Posted: August 26, 2022, 2:10 PM