12-07-2018 Service Interruption
RT had a server issue at approximately 11:30am which prevented updates to occur.
The system did queued these up and now that the issue has been resolved the backlog of requests will be processed.
Please allow the next 30 minutes or so for catch up.
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
Joe Kirby
We launched the updated myUMBC homepage experience this August and overall the responses were positive with regard to the updated look and feel and community focus. However, it was also obvious that we made some missteps in our redesign, notably around the notification list on the left of the homepage and the visibility of the main navigation links.
Although we hate making dramatic changes to myUMBC because of the disruption they cause to your workflow, we feel it is import to correct these mistakes quickly because of the frustration they’re causing.
Main Navigation Changes
We’re moving the main navigation links into a single black bar across the top. This bar will contain Search, links to the major sections of myUMBC, as well as the links to Mail, Blackboard, etc. This should put these links in a more familiar place for users of past versions of myUMBC and be more obvious overall for all users.
Notification Changes
When we redesigned the homepage to focus more on community events and updates we were worried about people losing touch with the updates from their groups. The notifications menu in the top right let you see the latest updates from your groups but it was hidden by default, so we decided to show a summary of your updates on the left hand side of the homepage next to the navigation links. This summary showed you the number of unread updates from your groups but because, realistically, people don't read everything they get from every group, what ended up happening was a bloat of notifications. This resulted in an increasing notification count that was at best annoying and at worst anxiety inducing.
Since we’re removing the main navigation links from the left-hand side, we decided to go ahead and remove the entire left side of the homepage and use the space made available to show the notification menu by default. We think this has two key advantages over the previous design:
- You can immediately see the subject of your most recent notifications to know if something is interesting or not — versus just the name of the sending group and a number of unread.
- Critical updates like Alerts are seen immediately upon logging in rather than hidden under a number or a dropdown.
The notification list will be open by default on large screen browsers only and only on the homepage of myUMBC. We are also exploring redesigning this notification list to work more like notifications on your phone: grouping of notifications, easier marking as read, and more interactive.
Updated Interface
Here is a screenshot of the new interface:
We apologize for making dramatic changes like this mid-academic year, but we feel these improvements are warranted.
As always, feel free to leave a comment or reach out to me directly if you have any questions for feedback.
B. Collier Jones
myUMBC Project Lead
The
Graduate School at UMBC takes pride in providing opportunities for student success. Through collaboration with prestigious faculty and research with groundbreaking partner institutions, graduate students can achieve personal, professional, and academic excellence. In order to better serve students and the community, the graduate school provides numerous services and programs that support non-traditional students in reaching their goals.
The
Golden ID Program waives the tuition costs of certain graduate programs for qualifying Maryland retirees who are at least 60 years of age. Whether degree seeking or not, Golden ID students can continue to enrich their lives with learning and development at little cost.
The
Accelerated Graduate Program allows ambitious undergrads to double count a certain number of credits for both their bachelor’s and intended graduate degrees. By making their intentions known to both their undergraduate advisor and the appropriate graduate program director, accepted students can make an academic plan that jump-starts their collegiate career.
Both of these programs offer unique opportunities for qualifying individuals, but they generally require those individuals to discover and actively pursue those opportunities. Consequently, retirees who don’t know they could attend classes without paying tuition and undergrads who are too preoccupied with their current coursework can easily miss the chance to apply. That is why the Graduate School at UMBC is reexamining their business practices and adopting new tools and technology to widen their outreach to prospective students.
DocuSign, the e signature and digital workflow platform, has provided a unique solution. In addition to making traditionally paper forms much easier to fill out and process, DocuSign’s digital envelopes can be sent out automatically to potential applicants via secure email complete with personalized messages and direct access to the electronic form. Rather than depend on students or applicants eligible for the Golden ID program to research and initiate the process themselves, Grad School can instead approach them directly with everything they need.
Converting to a new business process has its difficulties. It is often an exercise in reexamining every aspect of the workflow and defining what is essential and where the inefficiencies occur. Operations manager Dan Neeley, M.S. ‘15 Human-Centered Computing, says that change management involves balancing the needs of both staff and students, managing the workflow and accountability of designated signers, and handling exceptions and possible points of failure.
Despite these challenges, Neeley acclaims the plentiful opportunities for improvements in sensible efficiency that come in return. Improving communications between UMBC and applicants to these valuable programs goes a long way in increasing student satisfaction and success.
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Digital Workflows Integrate Procedure And Technology
AOP Provides New Opportunities For Business Efficiency
UMBC’s
Office of Academic Opportunities Programs (AOP) is dedicated to providing assistance, resources, and support to students who have traditionally been underrepresented in higher education in order to facilitate academic success. By coordinating with UMBC departments as well as off campus agencies such as the US Department of Education and the National Science Foundation, AOP encourages and empowers pre-college and ambitious UMBC students to achieve their academic goals.
In order to enhance its correspondence with students and their families as well as improve its business processes, AOP has adopted DocuSign as their e-signature and digital workflow tool. With help from developers in the Division of Information Technology (DoIT), AOP has converted much of their paper forms to electronic, automated forms that can be signed and submitted without ever having to print.
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McNair Scholars Program, for example, has transformed its entire application process to DocuSign, creating a digital envelope that allows applicants to upload any financial documents or recommendations directly to the form and submit it all through a secure email. DocuSign forms can also be filled out on any mobile device, which can significantly reduce the time it takes for students to submit their applications.
In addition to improving the experience for students, AOP has integrated DocuSign’s capabilities with their existing business practices to create a much more efficient system for processing and storing the submitted forms. One of the big disadvantages of paper applications is always the back and forth correspondence and approvals required when the form is filled out improperly. This takes up a lot of time that staff could be using to complete their numerous other tasks and tends to leave both staff and students dissatisfied.
With DocuSign, staff can create templates that guide signers step by step through the form, offering tooltips and validations to ensure that signers input the correct information. At any time, staff can also check on the status of each pending form as DocuSign timestamps each time the signer views and edits the form. Once the form has been submitted, AOP staff have designated Box folders into which DocuSign will automatically upload the completed application and all supporting documents. If they still need to follow up with the applicant, AOP can cancel or resend the form with just a few clicks.
McNair Scholars Assistant Director Michael Hunt, B.S. ‘06 Mathematics, says that the ability to adjust and automate the application’s workflow has gone a long way in reducing administrative work for McNair staff. Though the McNair Scholars Program has gone farthest in reducing paper, AOP’s other programs have also taken up DocuSign as well.
AOP Director
Corris Davis, B.S. ‘98 Biological Sciences, praised the use of DocuSign for the many agreements and contracts used in the
Upward Bound Program, which reaches out to high school students in Baltimore City and County. Many of these forms require both the student and a parent/guardian to read and agree to numerous program requirements and rules. DocuSign not only skips the hassle of having to submit all these forms by mail, but also does more to ensure that the signers fully read each section by preventing submission before each part is initialed and signed.
In advancing their mission to enable academic success, AOP has simultaneously improved their business processes to benefit both students and staff. Moving forward, as DoIT continues to integrate DocuSign with campus systems, AOP expects to create even more efficient solutions.
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TechFest 2019 - Save the Date!
4th Annual TechFest to be held on Friday, March 1, 2019
On Friday, March 1, 2019, DoIT's Instructional Technology Team will hold its fourth annual TechFest. TechFest traditionally brings the campus community together to share and demonstrate ways technology can both support and improve the efficiency of day-to-day activities including academics. This year, participants are in for a double treat as Instructional Technology partners with the Faculty Development Center to bring you day celebrating technology, teaching and learning!
The Faculty Development Center will also be holding their Symposium sponsored by the Provost's office on the same day which will include a poster session and luncheon with keynote address by renowned speaker Randy Bass.
Key themes for this year’s TechFest include (but are not limited to) the following:
· Using Learning Technologies for Instruction and Engagement (LTIE)
· Using Data Collection and Analytics to Inform Instruction, Measure Success, and Prompt Intervention (DCA)
· Integrating Technology Tools into Best Practices (TBP)
Students, faculty, and staff are all welcome and encouraged to attend.
Are you a student, faculty, or staff member interested in leading a 45-minute workshop session on one of the three themes, presenting a poster on teaching and learning, or providing a brief overview of an instructional technology tool in the Technology Test Kitchen? Then start planning the abstract for your proposal. A Call for Proposals will be issued soon. Past Session topics have included Clickers, Blackboard, iCloud, Accessibility, Phishing, CourseArc, and Lynda.com. New topics are encouraged and appreciated.
View the Call for Proposals here.
Submit your proposal by following this link.
For more information about TechFest, be on the lookout for future posts regarding proposal deadlines and event registration. You can also contact us at techfest19@umbc.edu.
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Learning and Leading in DoIT: Sherri Braxton
Co-director, Educause Learning Technology Leadership Program
The LTL program provides IT staff whose role is to support and promote technology in teaching and learning with the decision making, relationship building, management, and other critical skills they will need as leaders in a variety of contexts and with different campus groups. Braxton, who joined the DoIT staff in 2014, had already been asked to serve on the LTL Program faculty for a three-year term in 2017 after participating in the program in 2016. As co-leader of the program, she’ll serve as co-director for one year, and then lead the program the following year. She is also co-leader of the Educause Instructional Technology Constituents Group.
John Fritz, associate vice president, information technology, says, “I'm pleased but not surprised that Educause has recognized what we've known about Sherri during her four years with us: She's not only a leader on campus but also in our profession. She leads by example, has nurtured a great team, and people want to work with and for her. She brings a lot of energy to anything she does and it's contagious.”
Braxton’s own perspectives as a leader and manager include an emphasis on communication and mentorship. “I want people to feel they have ownership over the projects they are working on. I don’t believe in micromanaging; allowing staff to be self-starters inspires their confidence,” she says. “We have great communication within the instructional technology team. It’s important for people to feel they can come to me if they’re not sure they’re doing something right - or if they aren’t sure I’m doing something right.”
Prior to UMBC, Braxton worked as a software engineer and a defense contractor before moving into both teaching and instructional design at Bowie State University and the Johns Hopkins University. For over 15 years, she has served as an adjunct professor in the IT and computer science program at University of Maryland University College. She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics with a minor in computer science from Wake Forest University, a master’s in computer science with a minor in math from North Carolina State University, and a doctorate in computer science from the George Washington University with minors in educational leadership and management science.
In their own careers, Braxton says, staff should always be thinking about where they want to go next and what skills they will need. “I want to be able to support my staff in making that next step. It’s also important to network, and to take risks, to work on projects that make them uncomfortable and try as many different things as possible.”
“Being a lifelong learner is important for IT professionals,” Braxton adds. “Change in IT isn’t a matter of if but of when, which means quickly learning new tools and new ways to transform the academic landscape. It also means understanding and communicating the potential for added benefits to users.”
“It never gets dull,” she says with a smile.
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Panopto Cloud Scheduled Downtime
Site Maintenance December 15, 7:00-11:00 PM
On December 15, Panopto Cloud customers will be upgraded to Panopto 6.0. This upgrade will require downtime:
- Site maintenance will begin at 7:00pm EST
- We expect up to 4 hours of downtime
During the time our site is offline, you will not be able to access recordings on the server, and any attempts to upload from clients will result in a "Server unable to connect" message.
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New Report Concurrent Plan Enrollment
Are you interested in knowing what other plans your students
Are you interested in knowing what other plans your students are in? The new guided report, Concurrent Plan Enrollment, will display a count of students enrolled in your plan along with their additional plans for the term. It only displays undergraduate students at this time
The report can be found in REX guided reports with the following navigation
Census Data > Student Term Headcount > Concurrent Plan Enrollment
Student Records and Enrollment > Plan Enrollment > Concurrent Plan Enrollment
"Census Data" reports will have official enrollments as of the end of scheduled adjustment. The "Student Records and Enrollment" report will have current data as of the previous night.
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Hilltop Institute at UMBC conducts health services research on behalf of government agencies, foundations, and nonprofit organizations at the national, state, and local level. For the state of Maryland, Hilltop maintains a secure, HIPAA-compliant data repository in order to conduct sophisticated analyses of people's experiences with health and social service systems. Any Protected Health Information in this repository must undergo rigorous physical, network, and process security measures, which can mean lots of paperwork for Hilltop staff.
For example, researchers must often obtain Institutional Review Board (IRB) approval and sign Data Use Agreements (DUA) in order to access this information. DUAs provide access to this sensitive data for the purpose indicated in the IRB and DUA for a specified period of time, making time a critical factor of completing these forms. Until every participating researcher signs the document, no one can access the data, which means they need to wait before they can start working. When twenty individuals need to sign the same document, this process can take quite a while.
A few years ago, a particularly urgent form was stalling and Hilltop needed a quick and easy solution. With the help of the Division of Information Technology (DoIT), Hilltop converted the paper document to an electronic form using the E-signature platform, DocuSign. This allowed them to send the form to every user via email so that they could sign with a digital signature and submit with just a few clicks. As a result, an ordeal that could have lasted hours or even days was over in a matter minutes.
"The HIPAA regulatory environment continues to evolve, making the responsibility of compliance monitoring ever more important. Tracking signatures digitally using DocuSign has helped Hilltop address those changes." That is why Hilltop Director of Grants, Contracts, and Administration Ki So is still actively working to adopt modern technology into other areas of her business. Despite the frustration that can come with frequent system upgrades, Ki is passionate about improving efficiency and productivity, especially when it eliminates the tedious busywork that normally clogs her schedule.
Using DocuSign templates, Ki has been testing approval forms required for all purchases, reimbursements, and expenses charged to grants and/or discretionary accounts, as well as forms required by UMBC’s Asset Management to oversee equipment inventory. Allowing her to control and guide a signer’s progress through a form with tooltips, field validations and conditions, and other useful tools, DocuSign templates can significantly reduce the time Ki and other Hilltop staff spend correcting and following up on errors or mistakes.
“Overall, Hilltop's goal is to build in efficiencies using DocuSign templates to replace our internal paper routed forms,” Ki explains. By eliminating paper processes, Hilltop is creating sensible efficiency while simultaneously reducing their impact on the environment.
More Info:
• Visit the DocuSign myUMBC Group
• Visit UMBC's FAQ knowledge base
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What is Ultra & how do I learn more about it?
Multiple opportunities for training, support, outreach
Training and support are essential components of a successful transition to the Ultra Experience. This past summer, about 30 faculty and staff attended the Ultra Experience Boot Camp, one of several training solutions available to the campus community. This semester, about 30% of the UMBC faculty who attended the boot camps opted to teach with Ultra. Their fourteen courses include traditional, hybrid, and fully online formats with more than 500 students.
The FA2018 pilot faculty are not the only instructors with access to the Ultra Experience! All FA2018 faculty now have access to an Ultra Course Preview sandbox... do you know what to do with it?
Self-paced training and boot camps are not the only options. We are also prepared to offer:
Department Training
Instructional Technology staff are available for department training and orientation requests. These workshops may be scheduled in 45-minute, 90-minute, half-day, or full-day sessions on pre-packaged topics or mix & match themes. Please open an RT ticket to schedule this training.
Ultra Experience Essentials Boot Camp (3-5 hours)
This fast-paced program is intended for advanced Blackboard users who are very comfortable with the existing system. By the end of the workshop, participants should be able create and upload content to an Ultra course, create and grade assignments, configure the gradebook, and create, monitor, and grade discussions.
Webinars (ITNM & Bb)
Virtual trainings (45 minutes) provided by Instructional Technology staff and Blackboard offer flexible solutions for faculty training. Topics include Skill Builder workshops, Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series, Best of Bb World, course development, flipped classrooms, best practices, what’s new updates, or other customizable sessions.
Ultra Experience Redesign Workshop (2-day)
Focusing less on “button-ology” of using Ultra, this program is a 2-day workshop designed to support faculty as they redesign and redevelop their existing Blackboard courses for the Ultra Experience. Faculty will compare conversion vs. redesign options when migrating to UX, prepare Original courses for conversion to the Ultra Experience, and check courses for quality.
TA Training / Course Design Boot Camp (2 hours)
Instructional Technology staff are available to deliver a 2-hour workshop for Teaching Assistants on the effective use of Bb’s Ultra Experience specifically for teaching assistants. Please open an RT ticket to schedule this training.
As always, if you have any questions, please consider the following options:
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