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11May2020 Update: COVID-19 Job Scam in Email

Fake Job Offeres Still Coming In

The UMBC Division of Information Technology is still receiving notification of a widespread job scam. The subject is: UMBC COVID-19 INFORMATION. The From: address changes from one burst of...

May 11, 2020 · 11:25 AM

Email Attacks

A Review Of Recent Email Trying To Infect Your Computer

Email Attacks Tripwire has released an article warning of these COVID-19 related email scams. The article can be found at this link:...

May 8, 2020 · 12:31 PM

COVID-19 Job Scam in Email

New Scam Subject: UMBC COVID-19 INFORMATION

The UMBC Division of Information Technology received notification of a new job scam variant on 08may2020. The subject is: UMBC COVID-19 INFORMATION From: Koyepes Michael...

May 8, 2020 · 12:12 PM

VoiceThread Offers Training on Creating Engaging Courses

From Basic to Blackboard Use Cases - Learn from the Vendor!

VoiceThread is a learning tool for enhancing student engagement and online presence. With VoiceThread, instructors and/or students can create, share, and comment on images, Microsoft PowerPoint...

May 7, 2020 · 11:37 AM

Blackboard Offers Webinar Series on Remote Instruction

Fine Tune Your Skills from Basic to Advanced Levels

Blackboard has announced a webinar series to help faculty transition to remote instruction. Click here to sign up for the options described below. Who are these webinars for? This webinar series...

May 7, 2020 · 11:14 AM

"Password Notification" Scam

Email with bogus link wants to steal your password

This morning DoIT has received several reports of a password change scam that has been going around campus: From: ti93943@wildblue.net Date: Wednesday, May 6, 2020 9:45 AM Subject: Password...

May 6, 2020 · 12:03 PM

IMPORTANT

5-4-2020 DocuSign Limit Exceeded issue

UMBC offices are leveraging DocuSign at a rapid adoption rate, especially since COVID-19, and today we experienced an issue related to the volume of requests. For those who experienced the...

May 5, 2020 · 2:10 PM

Training on Respondus LockDown Browser & Respondus Monitor

Learn to Deliver Online Assessments using these tools

Instructor Training: LockDown Browser and Respondus MonitorLockDown Browser is a custom browser that prevents digital cheating during an online exam. Respondus Monitor is a companion application...

April 30, 2020 · 12:06 PM

Registration Comparison by Academic Level and College

Resource to to help with monitoring registration activity

A new report, Registration Comparison by Academic Level and College, is now available in REX. This report will assist with monitoring registration activity in comparison to the same relative date...

April 28, 2020 · 12:45 PM

RESOLVED - Blackboard Offline on April 28

UMBC is monitoring the issue & working with Bb support

At approximately 8:12 am, DoIT staff became aware of a potential outage with our instance Blackboard Learn. System admins immediately investigated the reports and opened a ticket with Blackboard...

April 28, 2020 · 8:54 AM

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