News

This is a sample News page using content from the Division of Information Technology group in myUMBC.

2017-08-23 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 Wednesday, August 23, 2017 between 7:30am - 8:30am. ...

Posted: August 22, 2017, 7:12 PM

myUMBC: Fall 2017 Updates

I hope everyone had a great summer. We've made a few changes for this fall, hopefully nothing that trips anyone up. Cleaned Up Start Page We made an attempt at making the start page a little...

Posted: August 20, 2017, 10:23 AM

Summer 2017 Classroom Technology Upgrades

11 Rooms in three months!

During the summer of 2017, DoIT AV Services upgraded eleven classrooms and meeting rooms across campus.  Funding for these room renovations was provided by CNMS, The Commons, and DoIT.  The full...

Posted: August 17, 2017, 2:43 PM

Quarterly system patching on 8/18 & 8/19

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday August 18th and Saturday August 19th.  While many of the...

Posted: August 15, 2017, 11:52 AM

LDAP-Master and Webadmin downtime on 8/17 at 2pm

On Thursday, August 17th 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: August 10, 2017, 11:11 AM

Duplicate myUMBC Notifications on Monday 7/31

We had an issue yesterday (July 31) in which myUMBC sent duplicate copies of posts to approximately 11,000 students. Some students received up to 10 copies of the same post via myUMBC, email, and...

Posted: August 1, 2017, 2:47 PM

FA17 Courses Created in Blackboard on 07/18/2017

Blackboard cloud migration completed on 07/07/2017

Blackboard course shells for FA2017 were created on July 18, 2017 after the completion of the cloud migration. Summer 2017 courses will be archived from the separate cloud environment and...

Posted: July 20, 2017, 8:56 AM

Blackboard Cloud Migration Completed on July 7

System restored to full service

DoIT is pleased to announce the completion of the Blackboard cloud migration. During the downtime window, Blackboard engineers and DoIt staff migrated nearly 21,000 courses and more than 800...

Posted: July 7, 2017, 2:32 PM