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Panopto Downtime and Explorer Retirement

Jan 8: Maintenance and IE11 Sunset

Panopto Cloud Downtime The Panopto Cloud will have scheduled downtime Saturday, January 8, 2022. We anticipate announcing details regarding the system upgrades, along with the specific maintenance...

Posted: November 17, 2021, 12:27 PM

Campus website access restored

We have restored access to the campus and departmental websites that were experiencing long load times earlier today. We are still investigating the root cause of the issues, but through a...

Posted: November 16, 2021, 11:57 PM

Slow or unresponsive departmental websites

We are currently experiencing an outage with some of our central campus web servers. This outage is affecting a number of campus websites such as library.umbc.edu, dps.umbc.edu and news.umbc.edu...

Posted: November 16, 2021, 4:20 PM

Expanding PIVOT with Proactive Course Design Peer Reviews

Six faculty seek Quality Matters certification in UMBC pilot

By most accounts, UMBC’s PIVOT initiative has been considered a success in that 70 percent of all faculty participated, and 85% percent of students in PIVOT courses felt they were well organized...

Posted: November 9, 2021, 9:23 AM

Quarterly patching downtimes - 11/12, 11/13 & 11/19

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, November 12th, Saturday, November 13th and Friday,...

Posted: November 8, 2021, 1:45 PM

Course banners & table enhancements coming in November

New progress tracking improvements in Ultra courses

Customizing the course interface creates a visual identifier in a Blackboard course. In the next phase of the Ultra course's improved navigation and aesthetic redesign, course banners will be an...

Posted: November 8, 2021, 9:04 AM

National Distance Learning Week 2021 Lunchtime Series

Nov. 8-12, 2021: Teaching & Learning in a Hybrid World

One in four students take some of their courses online, and two-thirds do so at a public institution in the same state where they live (Allen, Seaman, Pouline, & Straut, 2016; Allen &...

Posted: October 28, 2021, 1:13 PM

Account data breach: Thingiverse

Another Breach Of An Online Service

In 2020, the 3D model sharing service Thingiverse suffered a data breach. On October 13, 2021, the data compromised in the breach was posted in various hacker forums. This breach contained data...

Posted: October 18, 2021, 4:53 PM

Commemorative Coin Spam

Spam Claiming Celebrity Endorsement For Trump Coin

The UMBC Department of Information Technology (DoIT) received a report of spam invoking former President Trump, collectible coins, and the security-focused Telegram messaging system.  See  the...

Posted: October 11, 2021, 12:17 PM

Account data breach: LinkedIn

Time To Change Your LinkedIn Password

Account data breach: LinkedIn  In April 2021, an employment-oriented online service, LinkedIn, was targeted by attackers who scraped data from hundreds of millions of public profiles and later...

Posted: October 11, 2021, 10:29 AM