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USM OnTrack Announces 2 New Workshops on Adaptive Learning

Explore how adaptive tools can support online learning!

  USM OnTrack  will be offering two additional free professional development workshops this month that will explore the ways adaptive learning tools can support online learning, particularly in...

Posted: October 2, 2020, 2:52 PM

NSF Report needs Visuals and Publications

Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students first and foremost, For the final report of the NSF MRI grant, we need nice visuals, such as plots of results of simulations, tables of results, or...

Posted: October 1, 2020, 8:39 AM

Learn how to use VoiceThread with more free workshops!

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: September 30, 2020, 1:58 PM

HPCF Back Online

Hi Everyone, After the scheduled power system maintenance, the HPCF is back online. This includes all taki components as well as affiliated research storage. Please submit an RT ticket if...

Posted: September 29, 2020, 8:08 PM

Get Ready for Winter and Spring Semesters with Labster!

Attend Live Demos for Faculty of the Virtual Lab Platform

As a reminder, the USM OnTrack initiative is covering the costs of using Labster this year as part of their commitment to supporting faculty. There is no cost to UMBC or to students to use...

Posted: September 29, 2020, 7:31 PM

Scheduled Power Outage Affecting HPCF

Hi Everyone, The user nodes (taki-usr1 & taki-usr2) are now safely shut-down in preparation for the scheduled power outage in the data center that houses the cluster. All running jobs were...

Posted: September 28, 2020, 8:14 PM

Jack Malone retires

Congratulations!

Jack Malone is retiring from DoIT AV Services. When he arrived on campus on September 10, 2001, this was going to be "just a job," but it turned out to be much more. Jack became an informal mentor...

Posted: September 25, 2020, 12:26 PM

Chromebook Extension for Respondus Lockdown Browser in Beta

Currently supports Original courses only

The beta release of a new Chromebook extension for Respondus LockDown Browser is currently available for assessments in Original Blackboard courses. This version of the Chromebook extension also...

Posted: September 25, 2020, 10:23 AM

Taki Shutting Down 9/28 for a Day

Power repair work required at Taki location

Taki will be shutdown for some power work at the Research Park Computer room. Taki will be offline from 9/28 at 8 pm to 9/29 at 5 pm. All jobs will be terminated when Taki is shutdown, so please...

Posted: September 22, 2020, 11:37 AM

New Batch Group Management Tool Available in Bb Ultra

Custom solution works in both Ultra & Original courses

Group management is one of the most important tools in a Blackboard course. For large courses, group management is a critical component of assigning students to groups and managing engagement or...

Posted: September 18, 2020, 12:25 PM