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<Title>Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 5/31 to 1 am 6/1</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 5/31 to 1 am Saturday 6/1.  This down time is during the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/oit-news/archives/2011/08/blackboard_week.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">regularly scheduled maintenance window</a> and is necessary for DoIT staff to perform maintenance on the system. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience that this down time may cause.</div>
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<Title>Karin Readel to Leave UMBC on June 7</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><span><p><span>Regrettably, I must announce that Karin Readel will be leaving UMBC as DoIT's Director of Instructional Technology. After deciding with her husband Bryan to relocate to Illinois, she has accepted a position as Education Coordinator in the <a href="http://www.informatics.uiuc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Illinois Informatics Institute</a> at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her last day at UMBC will be Friday, June 7.</span></p>
    <p><a href="http://www.umbc.edu/oit/news/archives/2009/12/karin_readel_na.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Since joining DoIT in 2010</a><span>, Karin has had a tremendous impact on UMBC’s support of instructional technology. I thought I knew a thing or two about Blackboard, but I bow to her expertise and will miss it greatly. We all will. Beyond her rock solid leadership of DoIT’s instructional technology services and support, Karin has been a delightful colleague and friend. I’ve never worked with a more “can do” person, and will miss her energy and anecdotes. </span></p>
    <p><span>Karin returns to Illinois roots having studied at Urbana-Champaign and working at DePaul University. She came to UMBC’s Geography &amp; Environmental Systems (GES) Department in 1999, rising to the rank of Senior Lecturer and serving as Undergraduate Program Director. She developed the lab science for non-majors course, SCI100 "<a href="http://www.umbc.edu/magazine/summer09/howto.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Water: An Interdisciplinary Study</a>," </span><span>which she also redesigned for <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/go/hybrid" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">hybrid delivery</a> in 2005, the first year DoIT supported the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/go/hybrid" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Alternate Delivery Program</a> (ADP)</span><span>. Her extensive service to the campus included co-chairing the Academic Conduct Committee and serving on the President’s Commission for Women as well as the Computer Policy Committee. She advised countless numbers of UMBC students, and was well-known in the residence halls as a faculty mentor, often accompanied by her trusty canine companion "<a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/1TOH68xddxV6Zo6AogEabC62JxsrNMrZPoK72WkdBBwHbe5gWBuLLJtI9WjiM/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Bob</a>," </span><span>who was <a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/1TOH68xddxV6Zo6AogEabC62JxsrNMrZPoK72WkdBBwHbe5gWBuLLJtI9WjiM/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">featured</a> in </span><span><em><a href="http://www.umbc.edu/magazine" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC Magazine</a></em>.</span></p>
    <p><span>I will follow up about future plans, but for now, please join me in congratulating Karin on her new endeavors, and thanking her for her success and friendship at UMBC.</span></p>
    <p><span>Sincerely,</span></p>
    <p><span>John Fritz<br>Asst. VP, Instructional Technology &amp; New Media<br>UMBC Division of Information Technology</span></p></span></div>
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<Title>Wiki and FTP downtime on 5/24/2013</Title>
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    <span>On Friday May 24</span><sup>th</sup><span> starting at </span><span>10am</span><span> the campus wiki (</span><a href="http://wiki.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">wiki.umbc.edu</a><span>) and FTP (</span><a href="ftp://ftp.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">ftp.umbc.edu</a><span>) servers will be taken down for maintenance.  This maintenance window will allow staff to apply needed security and application updates.  The outage window is expected to last one hour with services being restored by 11am on Friday May 24</span><sup>th</sup><span>.  </span><div><span><br></span></div>
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    <p><span>On Thursday May 23</span><sup>rd</sup><span> starting at </span><span>1pm </span><span>LDAP master, Kerberos and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable.  The maintenance window will allow staff to apply needed security and application updates.  The outage window is expected to last three hours with services being restored by 4pm on Thursday May 23</span><sup>rd</sup><span>.  </span></p>
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    <div>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.</div>
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    <div class="html-content">UMBC Blackboard Update is provided by the <a href="http://umbc.edu/doit" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Division of Information Technology </a>for students, faculty and staff using Blackboard at UMBC. If you have questions or need help, please consult the <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Blackboard" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard Help tab</a> inside Blackboard or directly at <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/blackboard/help" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">www.umbc.edu/blackboard/help</a>.  You can also contact the Technology Support Center at 410.455.3838 or <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867859" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">submit an RT (Request Tracker) ticket</a> via the <a href="https://rt.umbc.edu/UMBC/RequestHelp.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">myUMBC Help Menu</a> or directly at <a href="http://rt.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://rt.umbc.edu</a>.<br><br><strong>HEADLINES</strong><br><br><ol>
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    <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/news/28488" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">New Bb Analytics Reports Now Live in All Bb Courses</a><br>
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    <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/news/27516" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Box.com Has Arrived at UMBC!</a><br>
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    <strong>Note: </strong>The <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/apps/bb/activity" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">myUMBC Check My Activity</a> tool still lets you compare your activity with all peers in all courses, but this new BA4L report may provide additional insights.</div></blockquote>
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<Summary>As announced late last Fall, all Blackboard courses now contain the following reports powered by Bb Analytics for Learn (BA4L):    FOR STUDENTS -- Available in "Tools" Menu    Activity Compared to...</Summary>
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<Title>Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 4/26 to 1 am 4/27</Title>
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<NewsItem contentIssues="false" id="27890" important="false" status="posted" url="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/posts/27890">
<Title>New report 'UGRD Cumulative GPA Percentiles'</Title>
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    Gender. Selection can be based on Plan Objective, College, Organization and
    Plan. A typical usage could be for top 25% or 25-75% range of a particular population.
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<Title>New report 'Grade Distribution for External Audience'</Title>
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