On Thursday, December 21st starting at 2pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance. During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable. ...
December 12, 2017
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4:12 PM
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Begin your OER Mini-Grant proposal today!
Today the University System of Maryland 's William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation announced the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) 2018 High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program. Learn...
December 12, 2017
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12:01 PM
If your DocuSign screen typically looks like the first image, you can ignore this update. If your DocuSign screen typically looks like the second image, details about the new update are below....
December 11, 2017
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8:46 AM
If you've been using applications provided to faculty and staff through our Adobe Creative Cloud license, you may be getting a pop up asking you to update an expired license or sign in to continue...
December 6, 2017
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9:56 AM
Final step in cloud transition
All SU2017 courses, which operated in a separate environment during the full Blackboard transition to the cloud, were successfully restored to the UMBC's main Blackboard site in mid-FA2017, per...
November 21, 2017
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1:26 PM
Intermittent Slowness & Unscheduled Downtime
To The Campus Community This morning around 10:44 a.m., DoIT became aware of slowness and/or intermittent downtime with our primary Blackboard instance. After some internal investigation, a...
November 17, 2017
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4:40 PM
Call for Proposals Ends 11/22/17
The Quality Matters Regional Conference East is currently accepting proposals for its spring conference, which will be held at Towson University on March 22-23, 2018. The conference theme is...
November 15, 2017
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10:58 AM
Registration Re-Opened Due to High Demand
Due to high demand, we have increased capacity for the Maryland OER Summit and have re-opened registration. This day-long summit will bring together faculty, instructional designers, librarians,...
November 15, 2017
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10:28 AM
Key Findings: Leveraging Online Learning & Smartphones
UMBC has participated in the Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) student survey for 11 of the past 12 years, and taken part in the Faculty survey on its bi-annual deployments....
November 14, 2017
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4:52 PM
Document & annotations to be migrated to New Box View
During the grading and evaluation process, Blackboard’s inline grading tool allows instructors, teaching assistants, and graders to embed feedback, such as comments, highlights, and even drawings,...
November 10, 2017
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3:58 PM