Two-hour Disruption of UMBC Student Administration Today

UMBC’s Student Administration System had a service interruption today that lasted  approximately 2.5 hours.  As of 2 p.m. today, service to the Student Administration system has been restored and is available for UMBC’s students, faculty and staff. Students may continue to make schedule adjustments until midnight tonight, Friday, February 8th.

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This session will start with a general discussion on rubrics and their purpose, and will include a demonstration of how to create an assignment with an attached rubric in a Bb course.  For more information or to register for this webinar, please click here.  A full listing of the upcoming webinars can be viewed on Blackboard's Innovative Teaching Series website.


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•    Confrontation: What’s the Best Approach: pc_bi_mgbi009
•    Personal Conflict Styles: pc_bi_pabi002
•    Coping with Accusations in the Workplace: pc_ch_lsch003
•    Managing Conflict: pc_ch_lach009
•    Manager to Manager Conflict: pc_ch_mgch003
•    Conflict: Avoid, Confront, or Delay?: pc_ch_pach004

Visit the UMBC SkillSoft website for a Quick Start Guide, FAQ’s, and the link to log in to SkillPort.

For more information about SkillSoft and the Business Exploration Series courseware, click here.

To schedule a department presentation about using SkillSoft for professional development, call ext. 5-6262 or e-mail hrtraining@umbc.edu.

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The North American Bb Collaborate servers will experience a brief service disruption during our scheduled maintenance window on Saturday, January 26, 2013. The standard maintenance window runs from Saturday, January 26, 2013 at 22:00 to Sunday, January 27, 2013 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT -5). During this time please expect the servers to be unavailable. ]]> Blackboard Collaborate has published the following notice about their server maintenance scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 26 at 10 pm: The North American Bb Collaborate servers will experience a... https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/22672/guest@my.umbc.edu/6b0bcb748d5ae96bbb537c160a4ede2d/api/pixel Division of Information Technology (DoIT) https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/original.JPG?1727453227 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/large.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/medium.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/small.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxsmall.png?1727453227 Division of Information Technology 0 0 true Wed, 23 Jan 2013 13:52:25 -0500 Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 1/25 to 1 am 1/26 The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 1/25 to 1 am Saturday 1/26.  This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to perform routine maintenance. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience that this down time may cause. ]]> The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 1/25 to 1 am Saturday 1/26.  This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to... http://blackboard.umbc.edu https://my3.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/22575/guest@my.umbc.edu/c5f77b667733272e0e3cb225acd774dc/api/pixel blackboard Division of Information Technology (DoIT) https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/original.JPG?1727453227 https://assets1-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets3-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/large.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/medium.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/small.png?1727453227 https://assets2-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets4-my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxsmall.png?1727453227 Division of Information Technology 3 10 true Tue, 22 Jan 2013 05:57:18 -0500 Blackboard Upgrade Completed Ahead of Schedule Blackboard now available at http://blackboard.umbc.edu The Blackboard upgrade to Bb Learn 9.1 SP9 has been completed successfully, and DoIT staff have been able to bring the system back online earlier than was previously announced.   If users discover any issues in their courses or organizations, please report them to DoIT by submitting an RT ticket at rt.umbc.edu. 

There are several Blackboard training opportunities coming up in the near future. For those of you new to Blackboard, DoIT is teaming up with the Faculty Development Center (FDC) to offer  3 Blackboard: Back to Basics workshops in January, 2013.  Additionally DoIT has scheduled a variety of informal Bb Drop-in Sessions (both F2F and Virtual)  in January and February 2013.  Finally DoIT will provide cohort-based training for departments that can assure a minimum of four (4) faculty and/or staff will be present (dates & times TBD).  To request cohort training, submit an "online learning" request via rt.umbc.edu.

Thank you for your patience during this upgrade process.
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When you connect to a UMBC site that uses our single sign on (SSO) service you will be directed to an easy to use login page.


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Most achievements, great or small, begin with an important first step: setting a goal. However, the process of setting appropriate goals is often oversimplified or overlooked entirely. A well-constructed goal is challenging, yet achievable. It takes into account the abilities and resources available and requires the goal seeker to make the best use of both. Perfect for enacting New Year’s Resolutions, this course will help you examine the types of goals you can use to advance your career and personal life, learn to construct goals that are both challenging and achievable, discover how to embed the seeds of success within your goals, and explore ways to align your goals with your own priorities and the priorities of others who influence the way you use your time. This is course number pd_05_a03_bs_enus.

Visit the UMBC SkillSoft website for a Quick Start Guide, FAQ’s, and the link to log in to SkillPort. 

For more information about SkillSoft and the Business Exploration Series courseware, click here.

To schedule a department presentation about using SkillSoft for professional development, call ext. 5-6262 or e-mail hrtraining@umbc.edu.  

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