New Reports - to help with Management of Class Meeting Space
Two new reports have been deployed to help with the management of class meeting space, particularly where and when classes meet.  They are generally to be used for looking for discrepancies or odd combinations of time and place.  As such they are probably most useful for facility management and the Registrar's office.  Both of the new reports can be found in the folder 

Home > Curriculum Management > Room


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Class Where and When Permutations
​ - Shows the aggregate number of class meetings ​by one of four different views.
  • By Time
    ​ of class meeting​
    and Instruction Mode (In Person, Hybrid, Online)
  • By Time
    ​ of class meeting
    and Class Type (LEC, LAB, DIS,etc)
  • ​By Room Use code and Class Type
  • By Room Use code and Campus​

​Class Meeting Details - The detail records underlying the aggregate numbers in the ​"​Class Where and When Permutations" report.  It can and should be used by clicking on an aggregate number in that report.  It shows the details about the days, times and rooms associated with each class meeting.  
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Through a University System of Maryland partnership with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), DoIT is pleased to offer an exceptional online training opportunity to UMBC full-time and part-time faculty.

The OLC workshop format utilizes proven teaching strategies and learning activities while modeling best practices for online and hybrid learning. Collaborate with peers and experiences via synchronous (live) and asynchronous environments. Normally these workshop cost about $300 each, but our partnership provides a limited number of seats at no cost to UMBC faculty.

These workshops require a time commitment of 3-7 days on average with some lasting up to 3 weeks. All workshops are delivered online with either a synchronous or asynchronous component. A  full list of workshop titles  is  available through this year.  

Below you will find a list of recommended workshops for the months of March and April (workshop descriptions are linked in titles):


March 2015


April 2015


To register for a workshop, please  open an RT ticket in the Instructional Technology queue. Be sure to include the  name of the workshop  you would like to attend and the date(s). Instructional technology staff will assist with your registration, answer any questions you may have about the experience, etc.

[Note: The Mastery Series workshops are not eligible for the coupon code.]


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The report, “Grade Distribution Trends by Faculty”, can be used for displaying the average grade of a course overtime by Faculty member.

Other parameters found on this report are Term ​Season, Term, Gender, and Ethnicity. ​

The report can be accessed by going to rex.umbc.edu, clicking on 'Guided Reports', then navigating to

Student Records and Enrollment > Course Enrollment . 


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March Training

10 - "You Did It!" Using Achievements to Motivate Your Students

10 - Keep the Conversation Going with Discussion Boards

24 - Collaboration in Real Time with Bb Collaborate

24 - Boost Your Tech Toolkit with Box

31 - Rev Up Your Course with Rubrics


April Training

7 - Go Mobile with the Blackboard App

14 - Assessing Learners in Blackboard

21 - Columns, Categories, and Calculations: The Bb Grade Center

28 - Reusing & Recycling Your Course Content


May Training

5 - Conquering the End of Semester "To Do" List
12 - Reusing & Recycling Your Course Content

To register for any of these sessions, please select the linked session title and click the green "I Can Attend" button on the event page. We also recommend adding the workshop to your calendar.

Instructional Technology is also available to bring customized training to your department or group. Whether you need a general overview or information on a specific feature or function of Blackboard, searching for a solution to a classroom challenge, or seeking help for any instructional technology application or tool at UMBC, just contact us at instructionaltechnology@umbc.edu.
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On Thursday, March 19th starting at 2pm LDAP-master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable.  Account authentication and logins will not be affected during this downtime.  

The maintenance window will allow staff to apply needed security and application updates.  The outage window is expected to last two hours with services being restored by 4pm on Thursday, March 19th.  

During the outage window account creations will be queued and then processed upon restoration of services.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our Technology Support Center at x53838.

Thanks!
Tim
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As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure will be conducting its quarterly patching of systems.  While many of the systems will be patched without any service disruption, there are several systems which require the downtime of key services.  The schedule below outlines which key services will be offline and for how long.

Monday March 16th:

  • RT will be down from 9am to 11am

Tuesday March 17th from 9am to 1pm

  • myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality

  • The sites (wordpress) web hosting environment will be unreachable

  • Wiki will be unavailable

  • The new web hosting environment will be down (pages will be available but any database calls will not work)

  • Student mySQL databases will be offline


Tuesday March 17th from 1pm to 5pm

  • Access to Cyrus and UMBC Webmail (accounts not migrated to UMBC Gmail)

    • All mail will be queued up and delivered after the server ispatched

    • Expected to be unreachable from 1pm to 3pm

  • All HFS (user) servers will be offline

  • Userpages will be unavailable

  • License5 will be down (autodesk, cadence, idl, schrodinger, xilinx, mathematica)

  • Perseus will be unavailable

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Date: Friday, March 13th, 2015
Time: 02:00 am to 06:00 am EDT

On Friday morning, March 13th, 2015, between the hours of 02:00 am to 06:00 am EST, the Blackboard Managed Hosting Engineers will perform infrastructure optimization at the datacenter where we are hosted.

Please take note that this is considered a service impacting maintenance. As such, there is the potential for connectivity issues, brief disruptions to service sessions, or service unavailability during the maintenance window.

In preparation for this maintenance window:
  • Instructors: Please refrain from assigning any work that is due on Blackboard during this period. Should the system experience an interruption, students cannot submit their work.
  • Students: Please be sure to save or submit any work before this time. Any unsaved or unsubmitted work will immediately be lost if the system experiences an interruption.
After the maintenance window, please clear your Internet browser cache and cookies before logging in using these step-by-step instructions. We appreciate your patience as we continue to improve our systems to bring you a better Blackboard experience.
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DoIT systems staff do not anticipate needing the entire 2 hour window at this time. They will make the system available as soon as possible.

An update will be provided to this myUMBC group once the work is completed and the system is available.

Please contact me if you have any questions.

Joe Kirby ]]> RT (Request Tracker) is scheduled to be down from 9am - 11am on March 16, 2015 (Spring Break) for planned patching and maintenance. DoIT systems staff do not anticipate needing the entire 2 hour... https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/50269/guest@my.umbc.edu/18afeb13ceac66983318748746049ede/api/pixel RT - Request Tracker https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/rt https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/434/608c52894a47a2e6e35b9c555500b1e8/xsmall.png?1343496195 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/434/608c52894a47a2e6e35b9c555500b1e8/original.png?1343496195 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/434/608c52894a47a2e6e35b9c555500b1e8/xxlarge.png?1343496195 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/434/608c52894a47a2e6e35b9c555500b1e8/xlarge.png?1343496195 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/434/608c52894a47a2e6e35b9c555500b1e8/large.png?1343496195 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/434/608c52894a47a2e6e35b9c555500b1e8/medium.png?1343496195 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/434/608c52894a47a2e6e35b9c555500b1e8/small.png?1343496195 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/434/608c52894a47a2e6e35b9c555500b1e8/xsmall.png?1343496195 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/434/608c52894a47a2e6e35b9c555500b1e8/xxsmall.png?1343496195 RT - Request Tracker 0 2 true Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:04:05 -0500 Thu, 05 Mar 2015 09:04:53 -0500 Alternate Delivery Program Call to Participate Coming Soon Hybrid/Online Course Redesign for Summer and Winter Courses If you've considered converting an traditional, face-to-face course for either hybrid or fully online delivery, 2015 could very well be your year!  We will be seeking a second cohort for the recently revamped Alternate Delivery Program for full and part-time summer & winter faculty.  DoIT's Instructional Technology Team is ready to assist faculty who are interested in converting their courses to either hybrid or fully online during the summer for delivery in winter 2016.  A Call for Participation will be released either later this month or in early April. 

In the meantime, "Full Service or A La Carte: Enhancing Course Delivery", a session that will be co-presented by UMBC's USM Course Redesign Fellow, Eileen O'Brien, is scheduled for Wednesday, March 25, from noon - 1 PM.  Stop in and learn more about the spectrum of course delivery models ranging from face-to-face to fully online instruction.


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The achievements tool allows instructors to create opportunities for students to earn recognition for their accomplishments in courses.  Instructors can designate criteria for issuing rewards to students in the form of both badges and certificates. Students can see which rewards they have earned and what is required to receive additional rewards, providing insight into learning progression toward defined competencies (help.blackboard.com).   

The Instructional Technology Team will be holding a workshop on Blackboard Achievements on Tuesday, March 10, 2015. Click here  to RSVP and see event details.  


To learn more about using Achievements in Blackboard:


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