News

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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

UMBC Blackboard Course Design Featured in Educause Review

Learning Analytics Research for LMS Course Design

Building on prior learning analytics research at UMBC, DoIT's John Fritz has co-authored "Learning Analytics Research for LMS Course Design: Two Studies" in the current issue of Educause Review...

Posted: March 1, 2017, 2:38 PM

Sign On The eContract Line: A New Way for Contract Renewals

Payroll & DoIT collaborate to digitize a paper process

In late January 2016, Lisa Drouillard, Director of Payroll, and Lance Rand, Manager and Software Developer for DoIT’s Business Service Group, began meeting to streamline and digitize the contract...

Posted: February 27, 2017, 10:53 AM

Information about myUMBC outage on Monday February 20th

This morning around 9:10am we experienced a failure of several disk arrays on our central storage system. The arrays that failed affected several critical systems, including myUMBC and parts of...

Posted: February 20, 2017, 11:53 AM

Welcome Sophia Haire, New Turning Technologies Intern!

New Turning Technologies Intern Hired

Sophia Haire has joined the Instructional Technology team as the new Turning Technologies Clicker Intern for the Spring 2017 semester. Sophia is a senior Center for Women in Technology (CWIT)...

Posted: February 15, 2017, 8:50 AM

“Technology Support Center, This is Saiful Islam Speaking”

Meet one of the many students working at the TSC

Located on the first floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, The Technology Support Center (TSC) is the first stop in assisting the UMBC community with technology questions and requests....

Posted: February 13, 2017, 10:07 AM

Job Offer Scam

Personal Assistant Job Offer is a Fraudulent Check Scam

We have received complaints about people receiving fraudulent job offer emails from con-artists.  In some of the job offers, the con-artist offers to pay $200 weekly for running errands,...

Posted: February 13, 2017, 8:57 AM

Predicting and Supporting Student Success

Importance of the Blackboard Grade Center

Update from 2/1/18 Blackboard Analytics Symposium: Using Bb Predict and UMBC's FYI alert program together is more accurate than using either service alone....

Posted: February 10, 2017, 4:08 PM

Come Fly With Me: Goabroad Makes it Easy to Study Abroad

Study Abroad Office and DoIT Launch New Tool for Students

16 years ago, the Study Abroad Office (SAO) had a simple software tool called FileMaker Pro to track study abroad requests. However, many of the ‘features’ the tool could not adequately match the...

Posted: February 10, 2017, 6:54 AM