Learn how to get and use your free ORCID iD and ORCID record

When: Feb. 18, 2026 at 3pm Eastern is for new ORCID users.

Are you applying for a grant? Submitting a manuscript for publication? Want to make your professional activities and contributions visible? With research organizations increasingly requiring and using ORCID, knowing how to get and use your free ORCID iD and ORCID record will help you save time and get recognition for your work and contributions.

In this webinar, we will cover:

• What is ORCID and the Benefits of ORCID for Users
• How to populate your ORCID record
• How to keep your ORCID record up-to-date
  

No prior experience with ORCID necessary. The session recording will be sent to all who register. See you there!

Click here to view original posting: ORCID 101: The ORCID iD and Record · Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery · myUMBC

Register here:  https://lyrasis.zoom.us/meeting/register/2DaXwXSIQQOBBNdz7IcpXA

Hello UMBC Community!

During the last semester, we observed a steady stream of phishing attacks that attempted to trick users into providing their user IDs, passwords, and multifactor codes on fake login pages. In many cases, the fake login pages looked just like the real thing, and the only clue that something was amiss was the URL in the address bar. Once a user's login credentials have been obtained, an attacker can access the user's account to alter personal or financial information. This change often serves as the initial move in executing a financial scam.

As the winter break is underway and the new semester approaches, now is a great time to perform a cybersecurity check-up on your myUMBC and BankMobile accounts. 

Please follow these general tips to safeguard your accounts and funds:

1. Periodically Verify Your Personal Information: Log into your accounts and make sure all your information, such as linked financial accounts, billing address, phone number, and email addresses are correct. If you are expecting payments, validate that the bank account where the funds will be deposited looks correct.

2. Use Strong & Unique Passwords: Never reuse your UMBC password on other platforms — including financial services such as BankMobile. Create unique passwords for each separate account. Changing your passwords periodically can also help safeguard your account if an attacker has gained access to your password.

3. Check the Link: Look over URLs and ensure you are accessing a trusted service. If you see a login page but the URL does not look legitimate, do not provide your password or MFA codes. It is best practice to bookmark trusted services to navigate to them directly. 

4. Don't Give Away Your Secrets: UMBC and your financial institutions will never call, email, or text you to ask for your password or Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) codes. If you receive a Duo push that you did not initiate, do not approve the request and report it as fraudulent.

If you give someone your password and MFA codes, you are handing them the keys to your account. This could result in financial loss or unauthorized activity for which you may be held responsible.

If you see something, say something! Report all phishing emails to security@umbc.edu.

Stay smart, stay safe!

Now that your media has migrated from Panopto to YuJa, you have access to all your videos in your new YuJa media library. While the migration preserved most of Panopto's course folder structure, faculty may want to review, reorganize, and prepare media using Yuja's user-based structure for the spring semester. This article provides two key strategies for organizing and sharing your videos, and how to get help if you have questions.

1. Organizing Your Migrated Content

Your migrated videos arrived in folders that mirror your Panopto structure, and depending on how you used Panopto, you may find a mix of content that represents prior courses (named by courseID) and folders created manually (e.g., weekly lessons, meeting recordings, etc.). Now is an ideal time to audit and reorganize for the semester ahead. Here's a practical approach:

Start with a content audit. Review what you have and sort videos into categories:

• Media to use immediately this semester
• Media that needs revision or re-recording
• Media to archive or delete (deleted videos remain in your Recycling Bin for 60 days)

Create a folder structure that works for you. In your YuJa "My Media" library, click "New Folder" to build an organizational system. Consider creating folders for each course section, topic theme, or semester. You can create subfolders by double-clicking a parent folder and repeating the process.

Use bulk actions for efficiency. Rather than moving videos one at a time, select multiple items to move  or copy them into folders at once. You can also apply tags to groups of videos to make them easier to find later.

Improve your metadata. Give your videos descriptive titles that make sense to both you and your students. Instead of "Video_0001," try "Week 1 Lecture - Intro to Marketing." Adding descriptions or tags also improves searchability across your library.

2. Sharing Your YuJa Content in Blackboard

Once your media is organized, you'll want to make it available to students. However, when it comes to sharing your videos with students, how you link them matters for both accessibility and security. YuJa offers flexible options depending on how you want students to access your content:

Embed videos directly in your Blackboard course. Use the YuJa Media Chooser to embed videos exactly where you need them -- within an Ultra Document, directly on the Content page, in an announcement, test, or discussion. This option gives you the most control over where and how students encounter your media, and ensures that permissions are automatically handled. Learn how to insert YuJa videos in Blackboard.

Publish to your YuJa course channel. When students open YuJa in a Blackboard course, they'll see a channel specifically for your course. If you publish videos to this channel, you'll create a centralized library of course media that students can browse on their own. This works well for supplemental resources or recorded lectures students might want to revisit. Learn about publishing to channels.

Share folders with specific users. Need to share media with colleagues, teaching assistants, or users outside your course? Create folders in your YuJa library and share them with specific permissions (read-only, edit, or full access). You can also generate shareable links for external users. Learn about folder sharing.

3. Getting Hands-On Support: YuJa Video Production Labs

Need dedicated time and one-on-one assistance? Join us for a YuJa Video Production Lab where our instructional technology team will help you upload, organize, and manage your course media. We're offering three sessions in ENG 102:

• Tuesday, January 20 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM - register (in person)
• Thursday, January 22 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM - register (virtual)
• Thursday, February 13 | 1:00 - 2:30 PM - register (in person)

Faculty can sign up for a 30-minute appointment to meet with Instructional Technology staff for a personal consultation about organizing content with folders and tags, optimizing video settings, adding captions for accessibility, and publishing media to courses. We're also offering other sessions on getting to started with YuJa, recording, and editing.

Questions?

If you have questions about YuJa or need help with your migration, check ourYuJa FAQs oropen a support ticket.

The migration of our campus video library from Panopto to YuJa is now complete. While the data export process from Panopto took longer than initially anticipated, the import into YuJa was finalized as of January 5, 2026.

All users can begin using YuJa for recording and hosting video content now (via Blackboard or your myUMBC login at umbc.edu/go/yuja). As we transition fully into the YuJa environment, please review the following information regarding your imported content and the next steps for managing your media.

1. Locating Your Content

You can now access your migrated videos by logging into YuJa and navigating to Media Management. Your content now includes migrated videos and has been organized into a folder structure that reflects your previous Panopto setup, including folders for specific courses and any custom folders you manually organized.

2. Identifying "Orphaned" or Missing Content

While the vast majority of content migrated successfully, we are aware of some minor issues regarding "orphaned" videos -- content that may not have successfully migrated to your account due to the way it was stored in Panopto. Instructional Technology is prioritizing SP2026 faculty who used Panopto to ensure their content will be available by mid-January.

• If you find that content is still missing after January 16: Please open a support ticket with Instructional Technology.
• The Instructional Technology team will conduct a review of orphaned content to identify your videos and reassign them to your YuJa account.

3. Content Created After November 10, 2025

The automated migration captured content existing in Panopto up through November 10. If you created or uploaded videos to Panopto after November 10, including the Spring 2026 semester, this media will not not appear in your YuJa Media Management unless you self migrate that specific content.

Faculty and staff have until March 23, 2026, to complete any necessary self migration before our access to the Panopto archive ends. After that date UMBC will no longer have access to any Panopto content. 

4. Next Steps and Support

Although Panopto will continue to be available in Blackboard until March 23 for video linkage, we strongly advise faculty to use YuJa for new media creation. To help you navigate and organize your new YuJa library, please refer to our YuJa FAQ collection and review our follow-up article about organizing content. 

• Upcoming training and webinars focused on YuJa features.
• Best practices for linking YuJa content within Blackboard.
• Tips for organizing your imported content and managing your Media Management folders.

We appreciate your patience throughout this complex migration. Our goal is to ensure that your instructional media is preserved and even more accessible in its new home. 

If you have immediate questions, please reach out to the Instructional Technology team via RT.