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Affected Service: DocuSign Time Identified: 10:00 AM | July 16, 2026 Please be advised that DocuSign is currently experiencing a temporary service outage. The Impact: Users may be unable...
July 16, 2026
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10:25 AM
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Reminder: New Course Creation & Student Enrollment Process
Blackboard course shells for Fall 2026 were created on July 15, 2026. All Fall 2026 courses listed in the UMBC Schedule of Classes (SOC), regardless of designation as lecture, lab, etc, or...
July 16, 2026
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8:00 AM
UMBC's accessibility work recognized nationally
UMBC's Instructional Technology team has been recognized as a winner of a 2026 Blackboard Catalyst Award for Training & Professional Development, honoring the institution's leadership in...
July 15, 2026
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4:16 PM
Pilot in Blackboard Begins Fall 2026
In partnership with the Math and Physics Departments, the Division of Information Technology is pleased to announce a pilot for Gradescope, a feedback and grading platform that integrates with...
July 14, 2026
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11:30 AM
Start building inclusive Google Docs for all readers today
Imagine a student opening a Google Docs syllabus with a screen reader. They expect to easily skip from section to section. Instead, they hit a wall of text. Why? Because simply making text bold...
July 14, 2026
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USM Accessibility in Action - July 2026 Issue
Welcome to July's edition of USM Accessibility in Action! This month, we're celebrating USM excellence and helping you strengthen one of the most fundamental accessibility skills: writing...
July 9, 2026
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12:11 PM
Small changes, big impact for everyone.
Microsoft Word is one of the most common tools used for creating flyers, handouts, syllabi, readings, and assignments. It’s also one of the most common sources of accessibility problems in...
July 7, 2026
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12:15 PM
Protect Yourself During Your Job Search
Repost from the Career Center: Fraudulent Jobs & Employment Scams The UMBC Career Center works hard to ensure that employers recruiting through Handshake are legitimate. Handshake...
July 6, 2026
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10:19 AM
Discussion descriptions, AI conversation timers, course favs
This month's Ultra update provides a new report that gives instructors class-wide rubric data at a glance, and a dedicated field that separates discussion context from prompt. Paired with clearer...
July 2, 2026
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10:29 AM
Happy end of June everyone, I'm writing to give everyone an update regarding the UMBC HPCF and other Research Computing projects currently undertaken by DoIT during the month of June. Summary...
June 30, 2026
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