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December 4, 2012
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10:38 AM
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Screencast Shows Sneak Peek at Spring 2013 Changes
Since 2008, the myUMBC Check My Activity (CMA) dashboard has allowed students to compare their own Bb usage with course peers. This brief (5 min) video screencast demos some proposed changes to...
December 4, 2012
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10:01 AM
Instructor Access Available Upon Request via RT Ticket
Starting with the Winter 2013 Bb Upgrade on January 4, 2013, DoIT will be "archiving" (not deleting) Blackboard (Bb) courses that are between four (4) and six (6) years old. This will be done at...
December 3, 2012
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3:01 PM
Bb system unavailable after midnight January 3
As previously announced the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) will be upgrading UMBC's production Blackboard (Bb) system from January 4 to 14, 2013. During this upgrade period the Bb...
December 3, 2012
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2:06 PM
WT2013 Bb shells are located at http://bb-winter.umbc.edu
Bb course shells for both SP2013 and WT2013 were created on December, 1, 2012. The course shells for SP2013 are located on the Bb production server at http://blackboard.umbc.edu. As previously...
December 3, 2012
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1:20 PM
DoIT offering F2F and virtual Bb drop-in sessions
DoIT is offering Blackboard Drop-in Sessions to assist and help faculty prepare for spring courses. Virtual Sessions: DoIT will continue offering virtual drop-in sessions using Bb...
November 26, 2012
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11:35 AM
On Friday November 23rd UMBC’s Virtual Desktop Environment (VDE) will be taken down to perform routine system maintenance. The outage window will begin at 5pm and is expected to last until 7pm. ...
November 20, 2012
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4:57 PM
The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 11/30 to 1 am Saturday 12/1. This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...
November 19, 2012
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6:58 PM
The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 10/26 to 1 am Saturday 10/27. This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...
October 24, 2012
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1:16 PM
As previously announced, on Monday, September 24th DoIT staff began moving over 68 servers, storage arrays and other associated equipment from the Public Policy data center to the new Erickson...
October 9, 2012
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12:04 PM