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11May2020 Update: COVID-19 Job Scam in Email

Fake Job Offeres Still Coming In

The UMBC Division of Information Technology is still receiving notification of a widespread job scam.  The subject is: UMBC COVID-19 INFORMATION. The From: address changes from one burst of...

Posted: May 11, 2020, 11:25 AM

Email Attacks

A Review Of Recent Email Trying To Infect Your Computer

Email Attacks Tripwire has released an article warning of these COVID-19 related email scams. The article can be found at this link:...

Posted: May 8, 2020, 12:31 PM

COVID-19 Job Scam in Email

New Scam Subject: UMBC COVID-19 INFORMATION

The UMBC Division of Information Technology received notification of a new job scam variant on 08may2020.  The subject is: UMBC COVID-19 INFORMATION From: Koyepes Michael...

Posted: May 8, 2020, 12:12 PM

VoiceThread Offers Training on Creating Engaging Courses

From Basic to Blackboard Use Cases - Learn from the Vendor!

VoiceThread is a learning tool for enhancing student engagement and online presence. With VoiceThread, instructors and/or students can create, share, and comment on images, Microsoft PowerPoint...

Posted: May 7, 2020, 11:37 AM

Blackboard Offers Webinar Series on Remote Instruction

Fine Tune Your Skills from Basic to Advanced Levels

Blackboard has announced a webinar series to help faculty transition to remote instruction. Click here to sign up for the options described below. Who are these webinars for? This webinar series...

Posted: May 7, 2020, 11:14 AM

"Password Notification" Scam

Email with bogus link wants to steal your password

This morning DoIT has received several reports of a password change scam that has been going around campus: From: ti93943@wildblue.net Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 9:45 AM Subject: Password...

Posted: May 6, 2020, 12:03 PM

5-4-2020 DocuSign Limit Exceeded issue

UMBC offices are leveraging DocuSign at a rapid adoption rate, especially since COVID-19, and today we experienced an issue related to the volume of requests. For those who experienced the...

Posted: May 5, 2020, 2:10 PM

Training on Respondus LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor

Learn to Deliver Online Assessments using these tools

Instructor Training: LockDown Browser and Respondus MonitorLockDown Browser is a custom browser that prevents digital cheating during an online exam. Respondus Monitor is a companion application...

Posted: April 30, 2020, 12:06 PM

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