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New Process To Request Merged Course Shells
Blackboard course shells for Summer 2025 were created on April 24, 2025. All Summer 2025 courses listed in the UMBC Schedule of Classes (SOC), regardless of designation as lecture, lab, etc, or...
April 25, 2025
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9:30 AM
Advance educational excellence and affordability
The 2025 M.O.S.T. Grant Cycle We hope that you would consider submitting a proposal either for an individual faculty or institutional grant supported by the Maryland Open Source Textbook...
April 14, 2025
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1:11 PM
Panopto assignments not passing to Blackboard gradebook
Panopto has reported an issue affecting the accurate passing of grades from Panopto assignments to Blackboard's gradebook. Some grades for both quizzes and video progress are not being reported...
April 11, 2025
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2:46 PM
Older browser versions may not be supported in Blackboard
Following the April 2025 Blackboard release, some Blackboard users reported issues (e.g., blank screen, spinning wheel) with Blackboard access. Unsupported browser versions were identified as the...
April 7, 2025
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2:01 PM
IMPORTANT
New Process To Be Piloted SU25
To address current and future Blackboard (Bb) system administration issues and opportunities, DoIT will be changing how all Bb courses are automatically created and enrolled. Specifically, the new...
April 3, 2025
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1:34 PM
New learning object repository designed for flexible content
The April release introduce several new features aimed at improving content management, grading flexibility, and student feedback tracking. Instructors and students can now print Ultra Documents...
April 1, 2025
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12:46 PM
3 hours of downtime starting at 10:00 PM
Panopto Cloud Downtime On Saturday, April 12th at approximately 10:00 PM, Panopto is performing database updates and anticipates up to 3 hours of downtime. See this cloud downtime article for...
March 28, 2025
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8:34 AM
November 29, 1953 ~ February 25, 2025
Recently, we were saddened to learn that Dr. Zane Berge, a long-time professor of Education at UMBC, passed away on Tuesday, February 25, 2025. He was 71. Both nationally and here at UMBC, Dr....
March 7, 2025
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3:38 PM
Improvements to discussion formatting & AI image rendering
In March, Ultra's update includes two new course reports, an exciting rubric enhancement requested by faculty, and improvements to the AI Course Design Assistant. Located on the Analytics page,...
March 6, 2025
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10:52 AM
Application information and resources now available
A recording of the information session for the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T.) 2025 grant cycle is now available. The session provided an overview of open educational resources (OERs) as...
February 19, 2025
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9:12 AM