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Please be aware that DocuSign services in the cloud are experiencing Network issues which are now affecting UMBC DocuSign folks. I have been notified they are working on it and I will share...
May 15, 2023
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1:31 PM
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Share course marking practices this MHEC survey
Dear OER Colleagues: The Midwestern Higher Education Compact (MHEC) invites you to participate in a survey designed to assess the landscape of course marking of open educational resources (OER)...
May 11, 2023
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9:15 AM
ICYMI: SP23 LA workshops all recorded
UMBC's Division of Information Technology (DoIT), in partnership with the Office of the Provost, is pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 2023 Learning Analytics (LA) Mini Grants....
May 10, 2023
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11:31 AM
Monthly training sessions hosted by Poll Everywhere
Poll Everywhere offers monthly instructor training sessions that are open to the UMBC community and Poll Everywhere users at other institutions. Sessions address the following topics:...
May 8, 2023
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10:00 AM
As part of planned diversity, equity, and inclusion improvements from Blackboard, the first phase of pronoun support will display student pronouns in courses in time for summer 2023 courses....
May 4, 2023
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10:21 AM
Optimize your success with multiple Ultra resources
As UMBC gears up to fully adopt Blackboard Ultra by the Spring 2025 term, multiple training and support resources are available to help instructors become familiar with Ultra and successfully...
May 1, 2023
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3:53 PM
Blackboard course shells for SU2023 were created on April 27, 2023. UMBC is committed to providing a consistent learning experience for everyone. The Ultra Course Preview setting is again enabled...
April 27, 2023
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11:18 AM
Additional improvements for grading, outreach, assessments
As the spring semester concludes, the May update to Ultra brings several enhancements to assessments, grading, engagement, and content creation. Test questions are some of the most valuable...
April 27, 2023
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10:26 AM
Apply as a team by May 1st to participate
From Syllabi to Textbooks - Accessibility in Open Educational Resources for Institutions of Higher Education A series of 3 no-cost intensives designed to build capacity in IHE teams...
April 25, 2023
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4:38 PM
To all taki users, At 12:10PM taki-usr1.rs.umbc.edu of the taki cluster environment became unavailable for a few minutes. This login node was available again at 12:16PM. Any running sessions...
April 13, 2023
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12:34 PM