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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

Collin Sullivan to be “On Loan” to DPS

“Secondment” will focus on digital credentialing

As part of a continuing collaboration with the Division of Professional Studies (DPS) to advance digital learning at UMBC, DoIT is pleased to announce that Instructional Systems Specialist Collin...

Posted: September 19, 2022, 2:57 PM

Phishing Alert: Part-Time Student Administrative Assistant

PLEASE look for jobs at https://careers.umbc.edu/handshake/

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 Part-Time Student...

Posted: September 16, 2022, 4:56 PM

Call for Participants DOERS3 Equity Through OER Rubric Pilot

Response due Monday, October 24, 2022

Driving OER Sustainability for Student Success has announced a Call for Proposals seeking participants to pilot the Equity Through OER Rubric with postsecondary education partners across the...

Posted: September 14, 2022, 7:59 AM

HPCF Downtime Complete

To all HPCF users, Our work bringing the HPCF research storage servers up-to-date has concluded. Please begin normal use of the clusters or other research computing machines. Please let us...

Posted: September 13, 2022, 4:37 PM

On going Wifi issues on campus: improved, but not fixed

I wanted to give everyone an update on the wifi issues the campus has been experiencing. While they have lessened in severity, we recognize that they have not gone away, and are still working with...

Posted: September 13, 2022, 12:26 PM

Downtime update

time has been moved to 3pm to 5pm on 9/13

The time for the scheduled downtime has been updated to 3pm to 5pm. Please let us know if you have any question.

Posted: September 8, 2022, 2:11 PM

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