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DoIT's Sherri Braxton Leaving UMBC

What can I say, it’s 2020. I’m writing to announce that Sherri Braxton, Senior Director of Instructional Technology in the Division of Information Technology, has accepted a new position as Senior...

Posted: December 14, 2020, 10:50 AM

Taki Login Node downtime tomorrow at 5 pm (Login Reboot)

We are installing patches on the login nodes

We will be taking a brief downtime on the login nodes to install patches. This will not effect running jobs, but you will be logged out of the taki.rs.umbc.edu and other login nodes. We expect...

Posted: December 14, 2020, 10:49 AM

Google Widespread Outage early Monday Morning

Email, Calendar and Docs are unavailable until 8:00am

This morning Google had a widespread outage that affected all of their services, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs, Google Meet and Youtube. Service was quickly restored by approximately...

Posted: December 14, 2020, 8:23 AM

Outcomes Report of NSF MRI Grant Posted

Report provides visual highlights of work using taki

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, In 2017, a group of 51 UMBC researchers was successful in competing for an MRI (Major Research Infrastructure) grant from the NSF. Having this many...

Posted: December 13, 2020, 8:36 AM

HPCF Usage Stats Posted

Taki usage is analyzed by PI groups and architecture

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, User support in collaboration with system administrators have developed visual representation of monthly usage levels of taki's CPU and GPU...

Posted: December 12, 2020, 8:36 AM

Ultra enhances test feedback & journal grading for winter

Create HTML content & provide activity logs to support

Four exciting updates come to Ultra for winter courses. Grading enhancements for journals, test feedback release settings, an updated content editor, and support for HTML content are new features...

Posted: December 11, 2020, 11:37 AM

Collaborate update features chat mention & text formatting

Support for up to 1,000 attendees in supersized session

In any online learning experience, it's important for students to be able to engage socially and collaboratively. Interactions with peers and instructors can lead to greater student success....

Posted: December 10, 2020, 9:40 AM

Free VoiceThread workshops available in January 2021

Add media-rich, asynchronous engagement in your courses

VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in several ways – text, voice, audio file, or...

Posted: December 9, 2020, 12:27 PM

Phone System Patching Tonight

Tonight after 8pm the VoIP phone system will be updated

Tonight after 8pm the VoIP phone system will receive software updates. This update is in effort to enable new features and services needed to support an ongoing project for the campus.  We...

Posted: December 8, 2020, 2:37 PM

Lumen OHM & Waymaker Learning Communities for Faculty

Learn about a homework system to support OER resources

Hello! I want to make sure you’re aware of next week’s webinar about a unique professional development opportunity for Maryland faculty using Lumen’s Waymaker or OHM courseware. Here are the...

Posted: December 4, 2020, 9:48 AM