In order to facilitate a mandatory Student Administration upgrade, it will be necessary to take down the Campus Solutions, HR and Finance systems. The systems will be down from Friday, September...
September 12, 2019
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10:19 AM
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Needs grading filter also available to Ultra gradebook
Group management is an invaluable resource in a Blackboard course, especially one with large enrollments. UMBC is closely monitoring the evolution of this important tool in Ultra as we continue...
September 4, 2019
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2:10 PM
Findings from Two Terms of Qwickly Pilot
During the FA18 and SP19 semesters, DoIT partnered with Math/Stat to assess the relationship between student attendance and academic outcomes leveraging laptop and mobile technology. Using a tool...
September 3, 2019
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9:27 AM
September focuses on student success & retention
Next month, the Blackboard Innovative Teaching Series offers two free webinars focusing on student success and retention: Increase Student Success Using Analytics and Student Data Wednesday,...
August 30, 2019
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3:30 PM
Are you looking for an on campus job? Come work for us!
The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional consultants to work during the Fall semester and beyond. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on...
August 28, 2019
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12:04 PM
Taki Users: Today (Aug 27, 2019) at 5pm, we brought taki down to install some maintenance daemons. At this point (5:20p), taki is back online and no jobs should have been affected. As...
August 27, 2019
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5:23 PM
LockDown Browser, Monitor and Respondus 4.0 Exam Creation
Respondus is offering free training webinars on the following tools: LockDown Browser, Respondus Monitor, and Respondus 4.See the dates, times and descriptions for each event below:...
August 27, 2019
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12:16 PM
Community building for users of the HPCF cluster taki
The class MATH 627 Introduction to Parallel Computing introduces the current HPCF cluster taki and teaches parallel computing using it. Starting with an efficient introduction to the Linux...
August 25, 2019
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9:41 AM
Earlier this week we upgraded slurm (our scheduling software) to try and fix several bugs that had been identified over the past few weeks through working with our support vendor. This upgrade...
August 22, 2019
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8:37 PM
Please use a browser other than Safari to access Blackboard!
As noted in this Known Issue FAQ, recent updates to the Safari web browser are preventing access to LTI content inside any Learning Management System (LMS) including Blackboard. The issue stems...
August 22, 2019
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2:02 PM