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Congratulations to our Winter 2024 Graduating Students!

Congratulations to our Graduating students in the Division of Information Technology Class of Winter 2024! Congrats on all your well-deserved success and best wishes for your next adventure!...

Posted: December 18, 2024, 9:47 AM

WT2025 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: December 11, 2024, 3:02 PM

Exploring the Journey from QM Course Certification to becoming a Master Reviewer

Louise Murray shares insights as first faculty to pursue MR

Louise Murray, Clinical Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Programs at the Erickson School of Aging Studies, recently became UMBC’s first faculty member to become certified as a QM...

Posted: December 10, 2024, 10:25 AM

Holiday Travel Reminders

UMBC Holiday Travel Reminders Personal Travel on Business Trips: If your UMBC business trip includes personal travel, you must obtain a comparison quote. You can use either Altour or...

Posted: December 9, 2024, 4:23 PM

Important Notice for International Travel - Entry/Exit Requirements

UK and EU Entry/Exit Requirement UPDATES

Important Notice for International Travel All international travelers are reminded to verify entry/exit requirements for all countries they will visit or transit through before making travel...

Posted: December 9, 2024, 3:58 PM

Travel System DOWN TIME

New PostPeopleSoft Finance Downtime (FSPRD) this weekend - s

To All PeopleSoft Finance/PAW Users, Please note that the Finance system will be down for a planned quarterly PeopleSoft update from Friday, December 6th, at 5:00 PM, through Sunday, December...

Posted: December 4, 2024, 2:00 PM

Account Deactivation Emails

Don't click - it's a phish!!

The Department of Information Technology (DoIT) has received reports of a phishing campaign asking the campus community to provide their user ids and passwords to ensure their accounts are not...

Posted: December 4, 2024, 1:39 PM

December's Ultra update brings overall enhancements to core functionality

New indicators for discussions, grading, reports

This month's update to Ultra provides new and updates indicators for core functionality in Ultra courses including discussions, grading, and reports. Two improvements to Ultra focus on the AI...

Posted: December 2, 2024, 11:37 AM

Black and white robot dog running with the words "New to Ultra" written on light turquoise background

ada Downtime Complete

To all ada Users: We have completed the physical installation of the new GPU HW as a part of this downtime. Keep an eye out for correspondence from hpcf-admin@umbc.edu. DoIT will be...

Posted: November 27, 2024, 12:18 PM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Hiring for the Winter/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 upcoming semester and beyond. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting...

Posted: November 27, 2024, 10:15 AM

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