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USM Announces MOST Initiative High-impact OER Mini-Grants

Project expands Maryland Open-Source Textbook initiative

The William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation is pleased to announce the High-impact OER Mini-Grant Program, a new funding program designed to strategically support Maryland public...

Posted: February 9, 2017, 9:40 AM

Disruptions to Peoplesoft Student Administration System

Earlier today some users on campus experienced slowness or inability to access certain aspects of the Peoplesoft Student Administration System. We have worked to stabilize the system have...

Posted: January 30, 2017, 4:17 PM

There's Been a Change in Schedule: A New Tool for Students

How collaboration brought the Schedule Planner to UMBC

It was several years ago that UMBC students decided that the best tool for them to utilize would be a 'schedule builder'. They created a custom program that would look at the list of classes being...

Posted: January 24, 2017, 12:19 PM

Using the UMBC Schedule Planner Tool

Interactive tool helps you build the best schedule

The Schedule Planner offered by UMBC is a dynamic tool that can generate multiple possible schedules, and then send them to checkout in PeopleSoft. You can access it by navigating to myUMBC,...

Posted: January 23, 2017, 3:16 PM

Kudos to Jeremy Gude for Receiving Employee of the Quarter

A master in database performance tuning & web services

DoIT would like to recognize our own Jeremy Gude for receiving the Employee of the Quarter (EOQ) award. The EOQ program recognizes the outstanding qualities and contributions of employees towards...

Posted: January 17, 2017, 12:26 PM

How Student Disability Services Ditched Their Paper System

With help from DoIT, a new cloud solution was implemented

Student Disability Services (SDS) had a major problem. Their paper system they relied on for years was not keeping up with the increased demand they saw at their office. Rather than look for help...

Posted: January 17, 2017, 11:52 AM

Technology Support Center To Be Closed Jan. 27, 12-2:30 PM

DoIT's Technology Support Center will be closed from 12PM-2:30PM, Friday, January 27th to allow our staff to attend our departmental staff meeting. If you need assistance during this time, we...

Posted: January 10, 2017, 11:20 AM

VPN Upgrade Wednesday January 11th at 10:00pm

We will be upgrading our VPN software this Wednesday evening from 10:00pm to 11:00pm.  This change is fairly significant because the VPN will no longer rely on java to launch the client, which...

Posted: January 10, 2017, 10:02 AM

RT 4.4.1 Upgrade Completed

The RT upgrade from 4.2 to 4.4 has been completed. Special thanks to Paul Riddle and Jeremy Gude for making this happen. The system may seem a little slow initially as the system rebuilds...

Posted: January 6, 2017, 6:11 PM

Attention TechSmith Mac Users

Server Upgrade Requires Mac Recorder Update

On Tuesday, January 10, from 8:00 - 11:00 AM, DoIT will be performing server maintenance to upgrade our software to version 5.1.2. The update is necessary to remove QuickTime from the server...

Posted: January 6, 2017, 10:37 AM