As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure will be conducting its quarterly patching of systems. While many of the systems will be patched without any service...
November 26, 2014
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12:25 PM
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On Saturday December 6th, 2014 we will be upgrading the software running the sites.umbc.edu environment. Maintenance is scheduled for the whole day. The sites.umbc.edu website Admin Dashboard will...
November 18, 2014
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1:13 PM
Adobe Creative Cloud for Personal Machines
Adobe Creative Cloud Software now available on Faculty and Staff Personal Machines As previously announced, UMBC is now licensed site wide for the use of the full Adobe Creative Cloud Suite of...
November 14, 2014
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9:20 AM
UMBC uses an open source system called Request Tracker (RT) from a company named BestPractical to provide help to the UMBC campus community at large. In fact UMBC has been recognized on the...
November 13, 2014
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8:02 AM
Learn best practices from experts & spark new ideas!
Through a University System of Maryland partnership with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), DoIT is pleased to offer an exceptional online training opportunity to UMBC full-time and part-time...
November 11, 2014
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11:42 AM
Use badges to motivate & reward students via gamification
As announced earlier this semester, Winter and Spring 2015 courses will be hosted by Blackboard directly instead of by DoIT. As part of this change, we will also upgrade to the Spring 2014 version...
November 4, 2014
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1:01 PM
Box is an online file sharing system that can be accessed from multiple devices, including computers, smart phones, and tablets. Box files can be easily shared with others by adding them as...
November 1, 2014
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9:14 AM
Please note the change in rollout timing
The current campus VPN client, Network Connect, does not work with the new MAC Yosemite operating system and is no longer supported by the Vendor for the current Mac or PC operating system. We...
October 29, 2014
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8:58 AM
Scheduled Maintenance
We will update the software on the TechSmith Relay server Friday, October 31 at 9:00 AM. The update should take about an hour. If one attempts to upload a recording during this window of time then...
October 28, 2014
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9:47 AM
Adobe Creative Cloud now Available through myUMBC
This summer, working through the Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC), UMBC established a faculty/staff site license with Adobe for their new Creative Cloud offering (see detailed list...
October 26, 2014
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2:03 PM