UMBC faculty and staff may recall that DoIT used to publish a list of most active Blackboard courses for every term. However, we discontinued this after Spring 2013, when we completed our...
December 18, 2017
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11:33 AM
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Learn more about the redesigned next generation Blackboard
Four faculty will redesign and teach courses using Blackboard’s Ultra Experience, the next generation of Blackboard’s learning management system during the SP2018 semester. As part of a unique...
December 18, 2017
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10:12 AM
Blackboard course shells for WT2018 and SP2018 were created on December 6, 2017. About Course Creation Bb shells for WT/SP2018 are available for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, field...
December 18, 2017
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9:23 AM
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
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
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
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Share your favorite technologies with the UMBC Community
The Instructional Technology team is celebrating our 3rd Annual TechFest in 2018. TechFest is designed to bring together UMBC students, faculty, and staff to share their favorite technologies with...
November 8, 2017
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1:13 PM