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UMBC Administrative Assistant Job Scam Continues

Dr Deborah P. Webb Is NOT Offering You A Job

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) continues to receive reports of phishing emails claiming to offer a part-time job as an Administrative Assistant at UMBC’s Academic Success Center....

Posted: February 1, 2021, 11:21 AM

Free Half-Day Virtual Conference on Quality Matters on Feb 9

Gain insight into Active/Applied Research on Online Learning

Quality Matters is offering a free half-day conference on February 9, 2021, focused on research-supported best practices with takeaways to apply in your own work. Listen to experts from the QM...

Posted: February 1, 2021, 8:37 AM

DoIT Announces Instructional Technology Staffing Changes

Following Sherri Braxton’s departure as Senior Director of Instructional Technology, I am pleased to announce the following changes in staffing and assignments: Mariann Hawken (Manager of...

Posted: January 28, 2021, 2:49 PM

Take Downtime Completed: Update

To All Taki Users, The taki.rs.umbc.edu cluster environment remains online and accessible after this week's downtime. The following partitions are active and accessible via slurm jobs:...

Posted: January 27, 2021, 9:27 PM

Taki Downtime Completed

To All Taki Users, The taki.rs.umbc.edu cluster is now back online. User node taki-usr1 is available for users to access the cluster environment. The batch, interactive, and high_mem...

Posted: January 26, 2021, 7:12 PM

Continued Downtime

To All Taki Users, We are currently experiencing some issues with the upgrade. We continue to work with support services and external consultants to bring the cluster environment back online....

Posted: January 26, 2021, 4:43 PM

HelioCampus Implementation Update: Keeping You Informed

What everyone needs to know about HelioCampus

In this first of a series of updates, we’ll give a description of what HelioCampus (Helio, for short) is and why we’re investing in it, provide an overview of UMBC’s goals for the project, and...

Posted: January 26, 2021, 2:10 PM

Large Internet Outage Across East Coast Around Noon Today

There are widespread reports of Internet outages across the east coast that started around 11:30am this morning. These are affecting access to various services including Gmail, Blackboard, WebEx,...

Posted: January 26, 2021, 1:21 PM

How to Get Started with Open Educational Resources

Introductory workshop sponsored by the AOK Library

The AOK Library will offer an introductory workshop on Open Educational Resources: With the rising cost of textbooks, the use of open educational resources (OER) can significantly increase...

Posted: January 26, 2021, 10:24 AM

Reminder: Downtime

To All Taki Users, This is a reminder that taki is scheduled to be unavailable from 8AM today (Monday, January 25, 2021) to 5PM tomorrow (Tuesday, January 26, 2021). We expect the system to be...

Posted: January 25, 2021, 8:29 AM