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Registration Comparison by Academic Level and College

Resource to to help with monitoring registration activity

A new report, Registration Comparison by Academic Level and College, is now available in REX.  This report will assist with monitoring registration activity in comparison to the same relative date...

Posted: April 28, 2020, 12:45 PM

RESOLVED - Blackboard Offline on April 28

UMBC is monitoring the issue & working with Bb support

At approximately 8:12 am, DoIT staff became aware of a potential outage with our instance Blackboard Learn. System admins immediately investigated the reports and opened a ticket with Blackboard...

Posted: April 28, 2020, 8:54 AM

DoIT Offers PIVOT Webinars for Online Teaching

Initial focus will be prep for summer sessions

As UMBC prepares to offer all SU2020 courses in an online format, DoIT’s Instructional Technology team is pleased to introduce Planning Instructional Variety for Online Teaching (PIVOT), a new...

Posted: April 27, 2020, 11:06 AM

SU2020 Courses Created in Blackboard on April 21, 2020

Blackboard course shells for SU2020 were created on April 21, 2020. NOTE: In recognition of the COVID-19 pandemic and ongoing social distancing practices, UMBC’s summer session will be offered...

Posted: April 22, 2020, 3:22 PM

Another Part Time Job Scam...

Last week DoIT received several notifications of yet another part-time job scam arriving at email inboxes on our virtual campus.  The To: field has been removed from the example for reasons of...

Posted: April 21, 2020, 10:17 AM

Guide for Recognizing COVID-19 Scams and Risks

The Center for Internet Security (CIS) posted a guide, on April 13, 2020, about online scams exploiting people’s concerns about the COVID-19.  The guide is available at:...

Posted: April 21, 2020, 10:13 AM

Cyberattacks Delivered By Your Mail Carrier

Scammers and hackers will use any way to get to you...

A group called FIN7 has been using a novel method to target victims.  The attack is delivered through USPS mail, the kind that’s delivered into the real mailbox.  The target gets a package in...

Posted: April 20, 2020, 12:16 PM

Scam E-mail Spoofing Account of Scott Casper

Scammers are impersonating people to get info and money.

On Monday, 4/13/2020, DoIT was notified by several members of the UMBC community about an e-mail message impersonating Dr. Scott Casper, Dean of the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social...

Posted: April 20, 2020, 12:06 PM

Student Work at Home Scam

Hackers Offering Jobs at Cisco Systems

A scam message (see below) was sent to about 80 UMBC email addresses on 4/15/2020.  It’s a variation of a scam job offer we saw a few months ago.   It is NOT from Cisco Systems.  If you respond...

Posted: April 20, 2020, 12:01 PM

Submit Classroom and Lab Software Requests By May 1!

The deadline for requesting software to be included in our physical labs, virtual labs, and classrooms is approaching. Software requests for Summer and Fall 2019 are due by May 1 (Summer deadline...

Posted: April 8, 2020, 3:01 PM