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UMBC Blackboard update is provided by the Division of Information Technology for students, faculty and staff using Blackboard at UMBC. If you have questions or need help, please consult the...

Full Title: Only 4 Seats Left in Hybrid Course Re-design Workshop 1/14/11 Participants learn the principles of good course design and apply them to a traditional, face-to-face (F2F) course that...

The 9th Annual EDUCAUSE Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference will be held at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel from January 12 -14, 2011. This year's conference is titled "Setting a New Course...

Earlier today, DoIT staff noticed errors on one of the two UMBC Voicemail systems supporting the campus phone service. The particular voicemail system is accessed by dialing x51121. We placed a...

Update 11-19-10 1:00 p.m. Voice mail access was restored at approximately 1pm today. --------------------------------- This morning one of our phone nodes suffered a failure. At this time anyone...

During today's UMBC Professional Development Day, John Fritz presented five reasons why (and how) UMBC staff might want to use Blackboard in their work.

Jack Suess, VP of IT and CIO Welcome to the Division of Information Technology’s (DoIT) first annual report. Reflecting on this time last year, our focus was on four major initiatives: • The...

Posted 10-01-2010 1:35PM IBM-SPSS has notified us that the new license generation program for the network license where our 900 lab computers point is not working, disabling SPSS in the labs at...

Yesterday, DoIT began receiving reports from instructors that their course menus were obscured when they used the Firefox web browser (see example at right). We worked with Blackboard, which...

Today, myUMBC users have been experiencing authentication errors and slowness. Initially, the typical message was a “shibboleth listener error.” We believe we have identified the cause of the...