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Job Phishing Alert: Department of Biological Sciences

As Usual, The Job Sounds Really Good Except For Not Existing

Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received multiple reports of a job phishing email. The scammers sending these emails are impersonating Professor Brewster of the Department...

Posted: March 3, 2022, 3:12 PM

Assessing our use of data & promoting the student experience

What we've been up to in a five minute read!

The Analytics, Business Intelligence, and Student Success Technologies Group is part of the Provost;s Office and the Division of Information Technology.  Our component parts include the Business...

Posted: March 3, 2022, 8:03 AM

Bb Course Exports to Automatically Expire After 30 Days

Faculty can download course exports for archival needs

Course exports and archives are created when an instructor wishes to download a copy of their course. A course export contains all of the instructional materials, images and files, as well as the...

Posted: February 28, 2022, 8:33 AM

Updated REX Report: Population Term Summary

Modified REX Report : Population Term Summary Folder :  At A Glance Some additional data has been added to the Population Term Summary report.  As a reminder, this report gives aggregate...

Posted: February 22, 2022, 9:42 AM

Phishing Alert: “Available Position”

More remote work scams!

  Recently, the Division of Information Technology(DoIT) received multiple reports of a job scam phishing email. The scammers are offering a position as a Personal Assistant. Below is an example...

Posted: February 21, 2022, 12:06 PM

Two new reports about Time to Degree by Class Year

REX reports: Time to Degree – Undergraduate and Time to Degree – Graduate Folder: Census Data > Degree and Plan Awards The report, Time to Degree – Undergraduate displays the average years...

Posted: February 17, 2022, 10:59 AM

Quarterly patching downtimes - 2/25 & 2/26

As part of our ongoing commitment to security, the Unix Infrastructure group will be conducting its quarterly system patching on Friday, February 25th and Saturday, February 26th.  While many...

Posted: February 16, 2022, 10:23 AM

New REX Report: Concurrent Plan Awards

New REX Report: Concurrent Plan Awards Folder:  Census Data > Degree and Plan Awards Are you interested in the ability to view additional awards undergraduate students have received in the...

Posted: February 15, 2022, 3:41 PM

Job Scam Phishing Alert “Crypto Purchasing Assistant Needed"

If it sounds too good to be true, it's too good to be true.

“Crypto Purchasing Assistant Needed - Apply if Interested"  The Division of Information Technology(DoIT) recently received multiple reports of a job scam phishing message. The scammers are...

Posted: February 15, 2022, 11:46 AM

HelioCampus Update #3: First-Year Retention Predictions

Our first playbook is hot off the press!

First-year retention is UMBC’s single biggest point of loss during the lifetime of a freshman cohort and a key focus area of the university’s student success efforts. To support this work the Data...

Posted: February 15, 2022, 9:50 AM