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<Title>Known Issue: Bb Course Auto Enrollment (RESOLVED)</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">The auto enrollment script that takes students who are officially enrolled in SA and places them into the corresponding Blackboard course shell stopped working on Monday, June 6.  It was restarted as of 9 am Thursday, June 9.
    
    Typically the Blackboard servers receive students enrollment data from the SA system multiple times daily; in this instance the data feeds were no longer being sent from SA to Blackboard. DoIT staff are working to identify the cause of this error.
    
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<Summary>The auto enrollment script that takes students who are officially enrolled in SA and places them into the corresponding Blackboard course shell stopped working on Monday, June 6.  It was restarted...</Summary>
<Website>http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/oit-news/archives/2011/06/known_issue_bb_2.html</Website>
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<Title>Known Issue: Blackboard Connection Issues (RESOLVED)</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">One of the Blackboard file servers went down at approximately 11:50 am  on Wednesday, June 8 due to a power outage related storage failure.  DoIT staff became aware of this when users reported that they were unable to log in to Blackboard.  The storage issue was corrected and full service was restored at 12:55 pm.
    
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<Summary>One of the Blackboard file servers went down at approximately 11:50 am  on Wednesday, June 8 due to a power outage related storage failure.  DoIT staff became aware of this when users reported...</Summary>
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<Title>DoIT Campus Power Outage Update- Sunday, June 5.</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">As of late Sunday afternoon, power has been restored to the Engineering and Public Policy buildings and we are working to restore normal operations. This is an update on where things stand as of Sunday night, how we will proceed over the next few days, and some important lessons learned.</div>
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<Summary>As of late Sunday afternoon, power has been restored to the Engineering and Public Policy buildings and we are working to restore normal operations. This is an update on where things stand as of...</Summary>
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<Title>The Dissertation House&#8217;s Summer Online Challenge has...</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Full Title: The Dissertation House’s Summer Online Challenge has been posted!<p><a href="http://dissertationhouse.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mh900438412.jpg" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><img src="http://dissertationhouse.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mh900438412.jpg?w=300&amp;h=287" alt="" width="300" height="287" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"></a>Greetings to all graduate students who are working on dissertations. Dr. Carter has posted the Summer 2011 Challenge!  We will have Dissertation House sessions in Maryland this summer, but <strong>anyone</strong> — in any state, in any country — can join us online. Click here to join us: <a href="http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/blog-online-challenge/summer-2011-challenge/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://dissertationhouse.wordpress.com/blog-online-challenge/summer-2011-challenge/</a> .  If you’ve participated in our challenges in the past, or if you are still working with us in the Winter 2011 Challenge section, we invite you to join us in the summer section.</p>
    <p><strong><em>Good luck … we look forward to supporting you!</em></strong></p>
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<Summary>Full Title: The Dissertation House’s Summer Online Challenge has been posted! Greetings to all graduate students who are working on dissertations. Dr. Carter has posted the Summer 2011 Challenge! ...</Summary>
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    <div class="html-content">DoIT is offering drop in Blackboard Drop-in sessions to assist and help faculty prepare for the summer sessions.<p>
    
    The following <strong>one hour</strong> drop in sessions will be held in Engineering 025.  DoIT staff members will be available to work one-on-one with with users who show up during the designated times.</p><p>
    
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<Summary>DoIT is offering drop in Blackboard Drop-in sessions to assist and help faculty prepare for the summer sessions.   The following one hour drop in sessions will be held in Engineering 025.  DoIT...</Summary>
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<Title>Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 am to 1 pm Fri. 5/27</Title>
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<Summary>The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for three hours of maintenance starting this Friday, May 27, at 10 am.  DoIT staff will be performing MS Windows Server maintenance and updates during this...</Summary>
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<Title>Is it Valhalla? No, but it is Special Collections!</Title>
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    Maybe you’re waiting to see the Thor movie until after finals are over.  Maybe you’ve seen it and you’re dying to get more back story on the mythical God of Thunder. Maybe you’ve been staring at journal articles all morning and just need a break.  Maybe you just love comics loaded with exclamation points! Whatever the reason, Special Collections has just the thing for you.  As part of our fantastic Comic Books Collection, we have more than 200 back issues of the original Thor comic books dating from 1965 through 1990!  The first issue in our collection, number 119, even includes a battle against one of Thor’s movie foes, The Destroyer! </p>
    
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    But Thor isn’t limited to his own book.  You might also know him as part of The Avengers, along with Captain America, The Hulk and Iron Man!  Don’t worry; we’ve got you covered there as well, with more than a hundred issues from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.  Catch up on the Avengers back story now, before their movie comes out next year!  And before you ask, yes, we’ve got classic 60’s and 70’s issues of Captain America, the Incredible Hulk and Iron Man as well!</p>
    
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    Special Collections will be open from 1 until 4 pm Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday all the way through Finals Week, and until 8pm on Thursdays.  During the summer, we’ll be open by appointment only.  To find our superhero lair, enter the Library Gallery and walk straight back- you’ll see our doors on the right. No secret decoder ring required! </p>
    
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    To browse all of the comics available at Special Collections, enter “comic books” in the “Collection” field in the following search; or put in more specific search terms to find the exact comic you’re looking for:  <a href="http://umbc.pastperfect-online.com/37467cgi/mweb.exe?request=advform">http://umbc.pastperfect-online.com/37467cgi/mweb.exe?request=advform</a> .</p>
    
    
    
    <p><img alt="Hulk_324.jpg" src="http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/Hulk_324.jpg" width="193" height="290" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;">  <img alt="Iron_Man_100.jpg" src="http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/Iron_Man_100.jpg" width="193" height="290" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> <img alt="Captain_America_235.jpg" src="http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/Captain_America_235.jpg" width="193" height="290" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> </p>
    
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    <img alt="Avengers_93%20web.jpg" src="http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/library/Avengers_93%20web.jpg" width="193" height="290" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;"> But Thor isn’t limited to his own book.  You might also know him as part of The Avengers, along with Captain America, The Hulk and Iron Man!  Don’t worry; we’ve got you covered there as well, with more than a hundred issues from the 60’s, 70’s and 80’s.  Catch up on the Avengers back story now, before their movie comes out next year!  And before you ask, yes, we’ve got classic 60’s and 70’s issues of Captain America, the Incredible Hulk and Iron Man as well!</p>
    
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