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December 15, 2020
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12:28 PM
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What can I say, it’s 2020. I’m writing to announce that Sherri Braxton, Senior Director of Instructional Technology in the Division of Information Technology, has accepted a new position as Senior...
December 14, 2020
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10:50 AM
We are installing patches on the login nodes
We will be taking a brief downtime on the login nodes to install patches. This will not effect running jobs, but you will be logged out of the taki.rs.umbc.edu and other login nodes. We expect...
December 14, 2020
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10:49 AM
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Email, Calendar and Docs are unavailable until 8:00am
This morning Google had a widespread outage that affected all of their services, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs, Google Meet and Youtube. Service was quickly restored by approximately...
December 14, 2020
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8:23 AM
Report provides visual highlights of work using taki
Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, In 2017, a group of 51 UMBC researchers was successful in competing for an MRI (Major Research Infrastructure) grant from the NSF. Having this many...
December 13, 2020
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8:36 AM
Taki usage is analyzed by PI groups and architecture
Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students, User support in collaboration with system administrators have developed visual representation of monthly usage levels of taki's CPU and GPU...
December 12, 2020
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8:36 AM
Create HTML content & provide activity logs to support
Four exciting updates come to Ultra for winter courses. Grading enhancements for journals, test feedback release settings, an updated content editor, and support for HTML content are new features...
December 11, 2020
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11:37 AM
Support for up to 1,000 attendees in supersized session
In any online learning experience, it's important for students to be able to engage socially and collaboratively. Interactions with peers and instructors can lead to greater student success....
December 10, 2020
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9:40 AM
Add media-rich, asynchronous engagement in your courses
VoiceThread is a collaborative, multimedia slide show that holds images, documents, and videos and allows people to navigate slides and leave comments in several ways – text, voice, audio file, or...
December 9, 2020
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12:27 PM
Tonight after 8pm the VoIP phone system will be updated
Tonight after 8pm the VoIP phone system will receive software updates. This update is in effort to enable new features and services needed to support an ongoing project for the campus. We...
December 8, 2020
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2:37 PM