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62% of Fall 2023 Blackboard Courses Now Using Ultra

9 of 10 UMBC students are enrolled in an Ultra course

As UMBC finalizes its migration to Ultra, more faculty opted to use the new course experience during FA2023. Specifically, of 1588 total available Blackboard shells, faculty have enabled 991 using...

Posted: September 20, 2023, 2:55 PM

DoIT's Technology Support Center Hiring for the Fall

Are you looking for a part-time job? Come work for us!

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

Posted: September 19, 2023, 11:40 AM

DoIT's Tom Penniston Presents Paper at Copenhagen Conference

Sharing UMBC's Story Globally

DoIT's Coordinator of Learning Analytics, Tom Penniston, recently presented his paper (UMBC login req'd), Toward a New Paradigm: Learning Analytics 2.0, at the 25th International Conference on...

Posted: September 15, 2023, 8:27 AM

Campus Data Center Outage from Storms Last night

As a result of the storms and campus power blink, the main campus data center briefly lost power around 11:10pm Tuesday night. The power backup systems for the room carried the load through...

Posted: September 13, 2023, 2:04 AM

Call for Proposals: Blackboard's Digital Teaching Symposium

Submissions due September 18, 2023

Do you have a digital teaching best practice or experience to share with other educators? What strategies help educators excel and thrive in a shifting higher education landscape? Share your...

Posted: September 7, 2023, 4:02 PM

Major Campus Network Fiber Cut Thursday 8/31

Yesterday morning around 11am the campus suffered a cut to its main fiber optic cable feed that provides Internet connectivity to the campus. The cable was damaged by construction crews located a...

Posted: September 1, 2023, 4:21 PM

Improved course management tools for Ultra in September

Preview new AI course design assistant tools also coming

As the fall semester starts, the next update for Ultra courses brings improvements to the course management tools and a new stock image resource for course banners. Additionally, faculty will also...

Posted: August 31, 2023, 1:37 PM

Support student success with Ultra’s progress tracking tools

Discover how and when students engage with course content

The success of students in a Blackboard course is often dependent on their level of engagement and their ability to stay on track with course content and assignments. As an instructor, it's...

Posted: August 30, 2023, 9:11 AM

DoIT gl.umbc.edu Server to Require Duo MFA

GL (gl.umbc.edu) is UMBC's student general access Unix system which is often used for classes. Now that all faculty, staff and students are enrolled in Duo, beginning today, logging in to GL...

Posted: August 29, 2023, 4:28 PM

Mastering Blackboard Ultra Gradebook & New Flexible Grading

Best Practices to Prep Your Ultra Gradebook for the Semester

Allocating time to configure the Ultra gradebook before the semester starts can support efficient grading throughout the semester. In the recent Gradebook Hacks: 5 Tips to Prep for the Semester...

Posted: August 29, 2023, 8:47 AM