Server Patching December 19th from 6pm to midnight 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.

Friday December 19th, 6pm to 12am

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

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

    • Expected to be unreachable from 6pm to 8pm

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

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

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

  • All HFS (user) servers will be offline

  • Student mySQL databases will be offline

  • RT will be down (expected to be down 6pm to 8pm)

  • Userpages will be unavailable

  • Wiki will be unavailable

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

  • Student mySQL databases will be offline

  • Perseus will be unavailable


There will be no data loss during the outage and no user action is required prior to the downtime. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Technology Support Center at x53838.
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To that end I will ask folks to take a look at our development RT to see the enhanced presentation.

If I do not get any major objections or issues we will put in place this friday, 11-21-2014

Please goto the new RT color scheme and remember this is old RT data so you may not see everything exactly like it is in production.

Thanks

Joe Kirby
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This software upgrade includes:

As with all upgrades, it is a good idea to check over your site once it has been completed just to ensure no issues have arisen. ]]> On Saturday December 6th, 2014 we will be upgrading the software running the sites.umbc.edu environment. Maintenance is scheduled for the whole day. The sites.umbc.edu website Admin Dashboard will... https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/48138/guest@my.umbc.edu/db43d3a64eaad001adf90d2127ee5621/api/pixel downtime maintenance Division of Information Technology (DoIT) https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/original.JPG?1727453227 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/large.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/medium.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/small.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxsmall.png?1727453227 Division of Information Technology https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/048/138/6acb9a31556eee1a13176130b92418d6/xxlarge.jpg?1416334151 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/048/138/6acb9a31556eee1a13176130b92418d6/xlarge.jpg?1416334151 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/048/138/6acb9a31556eee1a13176130b92418d6/large.jpg?1416334151 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/048/138/6acb9a31556eee1a13176130b92418d6/medium.jpg?1416334151 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/048/138/6acb9a31556eee1a13176130b92418d6/small.jpg?1416334151 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/048/138/6acb9a31556eee1a13176130b92418d6/xsmall.jpg?1416334151 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/048/138/6acb9a31556eee1a13176130b92418d6/xxsmall.jpg?1416334151 0 0 true Tue, 18 Nov 2014 13:13:26 -0500 Update: UMBC Establishes Adobe Campus Site License Adobe Creative Cloud for Personal Machines

Adobe Creative Cloud Software now available on Faculty and Staff Personal Machines

 

As previously announced, UMBC is now licensed site wide for the use of the full Adobe Creative Cloud Suite of software on all UMBC owned computers.  These applications include:

 

Acrobat XI Pro

AfterEffects CC

Audition CC

Bridge CC

Dreamweaver & Muse CC

Edge Animate CC

Edge Code CC

Edge Reflow CC

Exchange Panel

Extendscript Toolkit CC

Extension Manager CC

Fireworks CS6

Flash Builder Premium

Flash Professional CC

Gaming SDK 1.3

Illustrator CC

InCopy CC

InDesign CC

Lightroom

Media Encoder CC

Photoshop CC

Prelude CC

Premier Pro CC

Scout CC

SpeedGrade CC

 

In addition to site wide use of the full Adobe Creative Cloud on all UMBC owned computers, the Adobe license, acquired with the help of the Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium, provides availability for Faculty and Staff to install the Creative Cloud on up to two personally owned computers.  The details of the agreement are as follows:

 

·        Faculty & staff are entitled to the same applications at home (the full collection) as the institution itself.

·        Upon redemption, the Creative Cloud Manager desktop application is installed. That application allows Faculty and Staff to download some or all of the Creative Cloud applications at their discretion and convenience. If Faculty or Staff originally downloaded some number of applications – and later determines they need others - they can certainly come back at a later time to download any additional applications by using the Creative Cloud Manager application.

·        Redemption codes are tied to a Faculty and Staff’s Adobe ID

·        Redemption codes will work on up to (2) Faculty and Staff personal computers, on either the Windows or Mac platform.

 

In order to obtain the Adobe Creative Cloud software suite for personal use, please see our instructional wiki at:

 

https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/How+to+Install+Adobe+Creative+Cloud+on+a+Personal+Computer

 

Adobe On-line Training Materials

 

Adobe has also provided the UMBC community with access to their entire library of training material.  Using the Adobe ID created through the process explained in the wiki, Faculty and Staff will have access to all the video tutorials and reference material available on the Adobe website.  This includes, but is not limited to, an extensive collection of Lynda.com video tutorials on various Adobe applications. These resources are available by logging in to the Adobe website using your Adobe ID, and are available immediately upon redemption of a personal use redemption code.

 

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The report can be accessed by going to rex.umbc.edu, clicking on 'Guided Reports', then navigating to Student Records and Enrollment > Degrees > Details > Graduation Application Status.



A new parameter has been added to the Advising and Registration by Plan report called 'Show Plan CIP Codes?'.  If 'yes' is selected, the CIP code for each of the student's plans will be shown on the report.  For most people, this information is not needed and therefore, the parameter will default to 'No' and those columns will not be included on the report.

The report can be accessed by going to rex.umbc.edu, clicking on 'Guided Reports', then navigating to Student Records and Enrollment > Plan Enrollment > Details > Advising and Registration Status by Plan. ]]> New columns have been added to the Graduation Application Status report to show the Reporting Plan, Reporting College, and Reporting Org for each of the student's plans (up to 4 per student). The... https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/48056/guest@my.umbc.edu/a95c9322c462fbeae85361ac2f69477d/api/pixel rex Report Exchange (REX) https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/rex https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/027/84d2a013f34a449185e0a8b510929235/xsmall.png?1349113538 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/027/84d2a013f34a449185e0a8b510929235/original.png?1349113538 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/027/84d2a013f34a449185e0a8b510929235/xxlarge.png?1349113538 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/027/84d2a013f34a449185e0a8b510929235/xlarge.png?1349113538 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/027/84d2a013f34a449185e0a8b510929235/large.png?1349113538 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/027/84d2a013f34a449185e0a8b510929235/medium.png?1349113538 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/027/84d2a013f34a449185e0a8b510929235/small.png?1349113538 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/027/84d2a013f34a449185e0a8b510929235/xsmall.png?1349113538 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/027/84d2a013f34a449185e0a8b510929235/xxsmall.png?1349113538 Report Exchange (REX) 0 0 true Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:49:24 -0500 Campus Help System (RT) hits new milestone UMBC uses an open source system called Request Tracker (RT) from a company named BestPractical to provide help to the UMBC campus community at large. In fact UMBC has been recognized on the BestPractical website as one of their many success stories citing an August 2013 Educause Online Review article called Beyond the IT Help Desk.

On Tue Nov 11, 2014 14:11:24 RT received its 500,000th ticket since going live Feb 23, 2009.

In this time RT has grown from a DoIT centric Help System to a campus wide system serving 25+ areas on campus, and growing. RT has also expanded from a typical trouble ticket system to also include service type request for both internal and external operations across many areas of campus.

As of Nov 12, 2014 RT has recorded 94,934 tickets for the 2014 calendar year.

The acceptance of RT as a mechanism to provide a common support has created increased interest by many of our higher educations peers and this is a tribute to the 'UMBC way' as many of our peers have stated how fortunate we are to have such broad collaborations.

RT has also been nicely complemented by our FAQ system (umbc.edu/faq) to allow the community to try and solve their own issues, especially in off hours.

Our latest members to adopt RT for managing their back office support include Procurement and Student Affairs Business Service Center.

We are also working with the CNMS Business Service Center, the PAHB operations staff, and the MME Technical Center.

Lastly, I would like to thank everyone involved with RT for the continued support and feedback.

Joe Kirby
]]> UMBC uses an open source system called Request Tracker (RT) from a company named BestPractical to provide help to the UMBC campus community at large. In fact UMBC has been recognized on the... https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/48034/guest@my.umbc.edu/1d4943fe41da1877b6a58501bd120fcc/api/pixel Division of Information Technology (DoIT) https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/original.JPG?1727453227 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/large.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/medium.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/small.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxsmall.png?1727453227 Division of Information Technology 0 0 true Thu, 13 Nov 2014 08:02:12 -0500 Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:50:35 -0500 RT hits new milestone On Tue Nov 11, 2014 14:11:24 2014 RT received its 500,000th ticket since going live Feb 23, 2009.

In this time RT has grown from a DoIT centric Help System to a campus wide system serving 25+ areas on campus, and growing. RT has also expanded from a typical trouble ticket system to also include service type request for both internal and external operations across many areas of campus.

As of Nov 12, 2014 RT has recorded 94,934 tickets for the 2014 calendar year.

The acceptance of RT as a mechanism to provide a common support has created increased interest by many of our higher educations peers and this is a tribute to the UMBC way as many of our peers have stated how fortunate we are to have such broad collaborations.

RT has also been nicely complemented by our FAQ system (umbc.edu/faq) to allow the community to try and solve their own issues, especially in off hours.

Our latest members to adopt RT for managing their back office support include Procurement and Student Affairs Business Service Center.

We are also working with the CNMS Business Service Center, the PAHB operations staff, and the MME Technical Center.

Lastly, I would like to thank everyone involved with RT for the continued support and feedback.

Joe Kirby



]]> On Tue Nov 11, 2014 14:11:24 2014 RT received its 500,000th ticket since going live Feb 23, 2009. In this time RT has grown from a DoIT centric Help System to a campus wide system serving 25+... https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/48032/guest@my.umbc.edu/33e6b588574ffff3ccff725472dec4e4/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 1 1 true Thu, 13 Nov 2014 07:50:05 -0500 Fri, 14 Nov 2014 09:51:01 -0500 Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 11/21 to 1 am 11/22 Per the announced Fall 2014 maintenance schedule, the UMBC Blackboard server will be offline from 10 pm Friday 11/21 to 1 am Saturday 11/22. 

This downtime is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary to perform system-wide upgrades, including patches and fixes that need to be applied. DoIT staff will make every effort to keep to this three-hour window to ensure continuity of services; on a rare occasion, however, quality assurance checks may temporarily delay access.
  • Instructors: Please refrain from assigning any work that is due on Blackboard during this maintenance time. When the system is offline, 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 when the system shuts down.
After Blackboard is back online, please clear your Internet browser cache and cookies before logging in using these step-by-step instructions.

We appreciate your patience as we strive to maintain our systems, especially during our transition to managed hosting.
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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.

Topics include:
  • Creating an Interactive Syllabus
  • Designing a Flipped Classroom
  • Exploring Competency Based Instruction
  • Finding & Using Open Educational Resources
  • Introduction to Copyright & Fair Use (parts 1 & 2)
Additionally, OLC offers the Fundamentals series:
  • Fundamentals: Increasing Interaction & Engagement
  • Fundamentals: Supporting New Online Learners
  • Fundamentals: Frameworks for Quality Design
  • Fundamentals: Engagement Learners in Online Discussion
  • Fundamentals: Giving Effective Feedback
  • Fundamentals: ADA & Web Accessibility
Finally, OLC has the New to Online series:
  • New to Online: Essentials
  • New to Online: Introduction to Online Presentation Tools
  • New to Online: Converting Your Course
  • New to Online: Putting Your Content Online
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 next year, but faculty must sign-up by March 31, 2015. Early registration is encouraged!

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. 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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As announced earlier this semester, Winter and Spring 2015 courses will be hosted by Blackboard directly instead of by DoIT. As part of this change, we will also upgrade to the Spring 2014 version of the software, which provides several new features.

In this migration update, we'll highlight the new Achievements tool. 

What are Achievements?

If you have watched anyone playing a video game, you know how the digital universe motivates people. Faculty can also motivate students in the upcoming Blackboard with a form of "gamification" by incorporating badges into their courses. With the Blackboard achievements tool, faculty can provide this kind of incentive by designing a badge system to encourage students to explore and participate more.

A student's badge collection can represent the key learning milestones that he or she met. Earned badges can show a complete view of a person’s skills and achievements. 

Being rewarded is also a powerful extrinsic motivator. One of the best rewards is recognition for a job well done. Finally, providing these opportunities for rewarding students throughout a course can create a map of what they can learn.

Stay tuned for a new update on a new Blackboard feature! Sign up for an information session to learn more about the migration to Bb managed hosting and other Bb resources. Drop in for a support clinic or sign up for DoIT training. 
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