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Five Things Every Instructor Should Know About Digital Accessibility

Quick tips to make your course more accessible today

As educators, we strive to create a learning environment where every student can succeed. But what if the very materials we use, such as digital resources, tools, or technologies, unintentionally...

Posted: August 27, 2025, 7:58 AM

A human figure with outstretched arms inside a circle of two curved arrows, suggesting movement. Below the figure are two words: digital accessibility.

The Retriever's Guide to Cyber Security: Six Scams to Avoid

Protecting your digital identity, one click at a time.

Retrievers, listen up — Six cyber scams you do not want to fall for. Number one: Random Duo Push notifications. If you didn’t log in, don’t hit accept. That’s literally letting an attacker...

Posted: August 26, 2025, 5:00 PM

Chip - Outage Resolved

Good afternoon, The issues with chip have been resolved. All users should be able to login and access their research volumes as normal. Thank you for your understanding while we worked to...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 4:45 PM

Chip - Investigating ongoing issues

Good afternoon, Unfortunately, it appears that the issues with chip earlier in the day have not been fully resolved.  Currently, there are issues with Ceph mounted research volumes not being...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 3:56 PM

Outage resolved

Good afternoon, Happy to announce the outage has been resolved. You may log in as normal. As a reminder, the login node is NOT a high performance machine, and should not be used to run...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 1:21 PM

Investigating Current Outage

Good afternoon all, We are aware of an outage on chip preventing people from logging, and are investigating. Please bare with us as work to fix this. In the meantime, any jobs that have been...

Posted: August 25, 2025, 12:40 PM

Account Verification Emails

They are phishing!

Hello UMBC Community, As we approach the Fall Semester, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has observed an increase in phishing attempts targeting the UMBC community. While we are...

Posted: August 22, 2025, 5:11 PM

August Gritty Award Winner: Travis White

Division of Information Technology Outstanding Staff Member

We are pleased to announce that Travis White is being honored for his outstanding work on a major network update to the campus Cisco Webex Room Kits. He is the recipient of the August 2025 DoIT...

Posted: August 18, 2025, 4:56 PM

The DoIT Gritty retriever dog trophy with the label "DoIT Gritty Award"