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Anthology announces retirement date for Blackboard Original Courses & Organizations

Original content will become read-only after Dec 31, 2026

Anthology, the parent company of Blackboard, has announced that they will retire Original courses and organizations on December 31, 2026. At this point, all Original content in courses and...

Posted: June 30, 2025, 8:26 AM

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June HPCF Newsletter

Hi everyone, I’m writing to give everyone an update regarding the UMBC HPCF, particularly the new Retriever Research Storage System (RRStor). The Research Computing team within DoIT works to...

Posted: June 26, 2025, 1:19 PM

Cybersecurity Alert: Increase in Phishing Scams

Account stealers and fake job scams use multiple methods

DoIT has detected several sophisticated email phishing scams attempting to steal user account credentials across campus. These scams have directed users to enter their username and password into...

Posted: June 24, 2025, 6:45 PM

Improve Course Accessibility with Image Captions & MathJax Formulas in July's Ultra Update

Track who's reading your announcements and more

How do you know if students actually read that important course announcement? What if you could make your content more accessible by adding image captions or rendering complex math more clearly...

Posted: June 24, 2025, 1:11 PM

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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 upcoming semester and beyond. Please see our job description below and visit our job posting...

Posted: June 17, 2025, 10:24 AM

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Major Cloud Service Outage Impacting Campus Applications

Date: June 12, 2025 Time: 3:45 PM The Division of Information Technology is aware of a widespread outage with a major cloud service provider that is currently impacting access to a number of...

Posted: June 12, 2025, 3:47 PM

CourseArc offers new AI-supported features including image descriptions

Improve accessibility in your CourseArc content

CourseArc offers new AI-powered features to make content creation smarter and faster. From generating alt text and long descriptions to transforming outlines into full lessons and creating quizzes...

Posted: June 10, 2025, 8:41 AM

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New Voicethread URL starting June 30

UMBC users will use: voicethread.com

Please note that after June 30, 2025, your UMBC VoiceThread account may be accessed via: https://voicethread.com Currently UMBC users may access VoiceThread via: https://umbc.voicethread.com. ...

Posted: June 9, 2025, 1:16 PM

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DoIT to power down the retired Rolm phone system on Monday June 9th

DoIT will power down the old Rolm based phone system

On Monday, June 9th, DoIT will be permanently shutting down the retired Rolm based phone system. Now that the campus has been migrated to the Cisco VoIP phone system, no impact to services or...

Posted: June 6, 2025, 2:35 PM

New Editor Rollout - Rich Text

You may have noticed something new in RT! Starting today, we're turning on the rich text editor by default. Many RT Power Users knew that you could turn this on in your profile settings, by...

Posted: June 4, 2025, 9:41 PM