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Kerberos Upgrade

Kerberos upgrade Wednesday March 20th, 8:30am to 11am

On Wednesday March 20th starting at 8:30am DoIT will be upgrading our Kerberos environment.  This upgrade is being done to achieve audit compliance as well as overhaul an old system.  The outage...

Posted: March 14, 2013, 4:41 PM

Mathematica and Wolfram Pro Training, April 9th 2:30-3:45

Using Mathematica for Teaching & Research

Teaching & Research with Mathematica 9 and Wolfram|Alpha Pro Tuesday, April 9, 2013 2:30-3:45pm, including Q&A Rm. 401, Math/Psyc Building, UMBC This talk illustrates capabilities in...

Posted: March 13, 2013, 3:06 PM

Userpages Downtime

Userpages will be down from 9am to 12pm on March 16th

The UMBC userpages web server will be taken down for system maintenance on Saturday, March 16 at 9am.  This downtime is expected to be completed in 3 hours.  During this time, any web page hosted...

Posted: March 13, 2013, 2:01 PM

Qualtrics Survey Tool Launched for CAHSS

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is happy to announce the release of Qualtrics, an online survey instrument, for the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CAHSS). Beginning...

Posted: March 12, 2013, 2:41 PM

Blackboard Maintenance Scheduled for 3/15, 6-9 p.m.

DoIT has been working with Blackboard on an issue that requires maintenance and a restart of our main production server this Friday, March 15, at 6 to 9 p.m. Normally, we would wait until our...

Posted: March 11, 2013, 9:24 PM

Changes to the Blackboard WT2013 Server

http://bb-winter.umbc.edu will go offline on 3/15

DoIT staff will be making several changes to the WT2013 Bb server in preparation for archiving/ restoring the WT2013 courses to the UMBC Bb production server.  All WT2013 instructors have been...

Posted: February 28, 2013, 4:26 PM

New Faculty Annual Report Pilot Begins With 9 Departments

To:Digital Measures Pilot Departments and Deans From:Jack Suess, Michael Dillon, Arnold Foelster Date: February 26, 2013 Re:Update on Digital Measures Implementation Digital Measures is a...

Posted: February 28, 2013, 1:44 PM

Known Issue: Dropped Students Still Available in Bb Classes

Some students not made unavailable after dropping class

DoIT staff would like to report a known issue involving student availability in Bb courses.  Over the past several weeks DoIT has received reports from students who have officially dropped a...

Posted: February 25, 2013, 5:31 PM

Bb Collaborate Down for Maintenance 10 pm 3/2 - 4 am 3/3

Blackboard Collaborate has published the following notice about their server maintenance scheduled for Saturday, March 2 at 10 pm.  UMBC faculty and students should note that both sessions and...

Posted: February 25, 2013, 5:11 PM