News

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Kudos to Tom Penniston on New Book Chapter

DoIT would like to recognize its own Tom Penniston on the publication of the book chapter “Service Learning and the Acquisition of Social Capital in the Community College Setting.” For this...

Posted: June 23, 2015, 11:07 AM

Faculty and Staff Encouraged to Update Directory Listings

Log into your myUMBC profile and make the necessary changes

The UMBC Directory Search offers a browse by department feature that shows people affiliated with a university department. At times, people may incorrectly appear as part of a department, so it’s...

Posted: June 22, 2015, 4:15 PM

RT Upgrade Preview

RT upgrade from 4.0.21 to 4.2.11

As part of our on-going efforts with RT we will be performing an upgrade this summer from 4.0.21 to 4.2.11.  At this time we are targeting the evening of July 7, 2015 assuming testing does not...

Posted: June 22, 2015, 11:05 AM

myUMBC 2015 Update LIVE

And there was much rejoicing...

The updates for myUMBC are now live. Please take a look and don't hesitate to send us your feedback. Throughout the summer we will be making tweaks and enhancements based on your feedback and...

Posted: June 20, 2015, 10:44 AM

Report Updates in REX Guided Reports

We have renamed the Active GEP and GFR Classes report to Courses by GEP and GFR Attributes. This report can be accessed by navigating to: Curriculum Management > Course > Courses by GEP and...

Posted: June 18, 2015, 11:06 AM

myUMBC Updates: Now in Beta!

I hope Maggie doesn't notice the difference!

We've made the myUMBC beta server available for testing/preview! Log in and take a look at what's new and let us know what you think. http://beta.my.umbc.edu Highlights & Notes Menu...

Posted: June 12, 2015, 6:49 PM

Collaborate with Classmates via Virtual Study Spaces

Powered by Blackboard Instant Messenger

This summer, students have a new option for virtual collaboration: Study Spaces powered by Blackboard Instant Messenger. Blackboard Instant Messenger (IM) is an academic-centric instant...

Posted: June 12, 2015, 3:12 PM

Reminder: Campus Website Upgrade This Saturday Morning

Campus Website upgrade Saturday at 8am

We wanted to remind everyone that on Saturday June 13th around 8am we will be migrating the main campus website environment so it is running on new hardware and software. This past fall an...

Posted: June 12, 2015, 12:57 PM

6-9-2015 RT update

I would like to share a few updates to the RT community. First I would like to encourage you to look at this DoIT success story.  Financial Aid leveraged the RT front-end form for their Walk-In...

Posted: June 9, 2015, 10:40 AM

Locating Our Confidential Data

Identity Finder is being installed to help reduce our risk.

In an effort to try and detect confidential data on university-owned systems and reduce the risk that UMBC will be the source of a data breach, UMBC has worked with the university system to...

Posted: June 9, 2015, 10:01 AM