News

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January 2015 RT Users Group Meeting Year in Review

Please take a moment and review this event for this coming Thursday, January 22, 2015 at 1:00pm. in Engineering 022. Your feedback is very important to the success of RT. Thanks Joe Kirby

Posted: January 20, 2015, 8:39 AM

2015-01-15 RT Down

RT went down today around 3:30pm. Systems, database, and networking teams are looking into this immediately. As soon as I have more information to share I will re-post to this page. I apologize...

Posted: January 15, 2015, 3:43 PM

myUMBC Open Forum for Students (Free Food)

Share your thoughts on improving myUMBC

The myUMBC team has been working hard on updating myUMBC -- striving for a better balance between community, institutional and personal information. Student involvement is a very important part...

Posted: January 14, 2015, 10:31 AM

sites.umbc.edu Scheduled Maintenance 1/17/2015

On Saturday January 17th, 2015 we will be upgrading the software running the sites.umbc.edu environment. Maintenance is scheduled for the whole day and the Admin area of your site may not be...

Posted: January 13, 2015, 12:34 PM

Quick Update on Saved Search Adjustment for RT

There are 10 standard reports available to everyone via the Saved Search portion of your RT-at-a-Glance. As part of a new option to store these reports under 1 area rather than needing to...

Posted: January 12, 2015, 11:35 AM

Quick Update on Saved Search Adjustment for RT

There are 10 standard reports available to everyone via the Saved Search portion of your RT-at-a-Glance. As part of a new option to store these reports under 1 area rather than needing to...

Posted: January 10, 2015, 3:10 PM

January Technology of the Month

Blackboard Rubrics

A rubric is an assessment tool that identifies key criteria of assignments (i.e. essays, journals, discussion boards). Rubrics can help students organize their efforts to meet the requirements of...

Posted: January 9, 2015, 10:13 AM

Blackboard Export Process Updated to Address Known Issue

Recent maintenance performed on the UMBC's Blackboard site allows faculty to export older courses without experiencing the known issue with invalid files and import the course content to the new...

Posted: January 8, 2015, 11:45 AM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Now Hiring

Are you looking for a job this Spring? Come work for us!

The DoIT Technology Support Center is looking to hire additional consultants to work during the Spring semester. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting on UMBCWorks to...

Posted: January 7, 2015, 2:06 PM

Fall 2014 Blackboard Down For Maintenance, 12-5 PM EST

Winter Courses Remain Online & Available

UPDATE: The Fall 2014 course site is back online after less than 2 hours of maintenance. The legacy UMBC Blackboard site, which currently hosts Fall 2014 courses until they are migrated to our...

Posted: January 7, 2015, 10:20 AM