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Taki Downtime on October 5, 2021 - 5pm to 9pm

To all taki users, On Tuesday October 5, 2021 the taki cluster environment will be down and inaccessible from 5pm - 9pm EDT.  Once our work is done on Tuesday, we will make another...

Posted: September 28, 2021, 6:37 PM

taki Back Online After Unscheduled Downtime

To all taki users, At 12:30PM portions of the taki cluster environment became unavailable. The management system attempted to correct the issue by selectively killing administrative...

Posted: September 28, 2021, 3:15 PM

New Features for VoiceThread Assignments

Updates to Due Dates, Creating Assignments, and Commenting

There are some new features in VoiceThread Assignments!  New features were added to VoiceThread Assignments at the end of September and we would like to share them with faculty. These features...

Posted: September 28, 2021, 12:36 PM

Account data breach: Ajarn

Why You Should Not Use Your UMBC Password At Any Other Site

In September 2021, Thai-based English language teaching website, Ajarn, learnt that they suffered a data breach back in September 2018. This breach contained data for approximately 266 thousand...

Posted: September 27, 2021, 5:34 PM