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Get a Bird's Eye View of Your Course Across Campus

In recent years, the Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support  (IRADS) has installed or built a nifty set of “bird’s eye view” reports about teaching & learning in the campus’...

Posted: March 28, 2017, 2:09 PM

Meet Lily Prokop: Student IT Consultant & Oboist

Technology Support Center is a place for all sorts of majors

The Technology Support Center (TSC) is the first stop in assisting the UMBC community with technology questions and requests. The TSC is made possible thanks to its many student workers, who all...

Posted: March 27, 2017, 11:53 AM

2017-03-17 RT Scheduled Downtime

As part of DoIT's ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching  for RT on Friday, March 17th from 5pm to 6pm.   For more...

Posted: March 16, 2017, 7:58 AM

Residential Network Outage Monday Evening

Monday evening around 7:15 pm there was a power outage on part of the campus which caused some of the core switches in the Residential Network to crash and their configuration became corrupted. ...

Posted: March 14, 2017, 10:01 AM

Computer Replacement Initiative Deadline is March 29

Faculty & staff can fill out the DoIT web form

The Computer Replacement Initiative (CRI) is a UMBC campus-wide initiative designed to replace faculty and staff laptops and desktops. For the 2017-2018 academic year, within Academic Affairs, the...

Posted: March 9, 2017, 4:24 PM

System patching on Friday, March 17th starting at 5pm

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, March 17th from 5pm to 10pm.  While many systems will be...

Posted: March 9, 2017, 2:52 PM

LDAP-Master and Webadmin downtime on 3/16

On Thursday, March 16th starting at 2pm LDAP-Master and Webadmin will be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account creations and password changes will be unavailable.  Account...

Posted: March 8, 2017, 3:15 PM

TechFest 2017: New Presenters, More Vendors, and Giveaways

This year’s event is on April 10 at the University Center

In 2016, DoIT hosted a brand new type of event known as TechFest, designed to bring UMBC students, faculty, and staff together to share different ways technology can both support and improve the...

Posted: March 8, 2017, 11:38 AM

UMBC takes Blackboard to the cloud

Summer migration for improved services & next gen tools

During the Summer 2017 term, UMBC will migrate its learning management system currently hosted by Blackboard to Blackboard’s new cloud infrastructure known as Software as a Service (SaaS)....

Posted: March 8, 2017, 10:45 AM