Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 11/21 to 1 am 11/22 Per the announced Fall 2014 maintenance schedule, the UMBC Blackboard server will be offline from 10 pm Friday 11/21 to 1 am Saturday 11/22. 

This downtime is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary to perform system-wide upgrades, including patches and fixes that need to be applied. DoIT staff will make every effort to keep to this three-hour window to ensure continuity of services; on a rare occasion, however, quality assurance checks may temporarily delay access.
  • Instructors: Please refrain from assigning any work that is due on Blackboard during this maintenance time. When the system is offline, students cannot submit their work.
  • Students: Please be sure to save or submit any work before this time. Any unsaved or unsubmitted work will immediately be lost when the system shuts down.
After Blackboard is back online, please clear your Internet browser cache and cookies before logging in using these step-by-step instructions.

We appreciate your patience as we strive to maintain our systems, especially during our transition to managed hosting.
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The OLC workshop format utilizes proven teaching strategies and learning activities while modeling best practices for online and hybrid learning. Collaborate with peers and experiences via synchronous (live) and asynchronous environments. Normally these workshop cost about $300 each, but our partnership provides a limited number of seats at no cost to UMBC faculty.

Topics include:
  • Creating an Interactive Syllabus
  • Designing a Flipped Classroom
  • Exploring Competency Based Instruction
  • Finding & Using Open Educational Resources
  • Introduction to Copyright & Fair Use (parts 1 & 2)
Additionally, OLC offers the Fundamentals series:
  • Fundamentals: Increasing Interaction & Engagement
  • Fundamentals: Supporting New Online Learners
  • Fundamentals: Frameworks for Quality Design
  • Fundamentals: Engagement Learners in Online Discussion
  • Fundamentals: Giving Effective Feedback
  • Fundamentals: ADA & Web Accessibility
Finally, OLC has the New to Online series:
  • New to Online: Essentials
  • New to Online: Introduction to Online Presentation Tools
  • New to Online: Converting Your Course
  • New to Online: Putting Your Content Online
These workshops require a time commitment of 3-7 days on average with some lasting up to 3 weeks. All workshops are delivered online with either a synchronous or asynchronous component. A full list of workshop titles is available through next year, but faculty must sign-up by March 31, 2015. Early registration is encouraged!

To register for a workshop, please open an RT ticket in the Instructional Technology queue. Be sure to include the name of the workshop you would like to attend and the date. Instructional technology staff will assist with your registration, answer any questions you may have about the experience, etc. 

[Note: The Mastery Series workshops are not eligible for the coupon code.]
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As announced earlier this semester, Winter and Spring 2015 courses will be hosted by Blackboard directly instead of by DoIT. As part of this change, we will also upgrade to the Spring 2014 version of the software, which provides several new features.

In this migration update, we'll highlight the new Achievements tool. 

What are Achievements?

If you have watched anyone playing a video game, you know how the digital universe motivates people. Faculty can also motivate students in the upcoming Blackboard with a form of "gamification" by incorporating badges into their courses. With the Blackboard achievements tool, faculty can provide this kind of incentive by designing a badge system to encourage students to explore and participate more.

A student's badge collection can represent the key learning milestones that he or she met. Earned badges can show a complete view of a person’s skills and achievements. 

Being rewarded is also a powerful extrinsic motivator. One of the best rewards is recognition for a job well done. Finally, providing these opportunities for rewarding students throughout a course can create a map of what they can learn.

Stay tuned for a new update on a new Blackboard feature! Sign up for an information session to learn more about the migration to Bb managed hosting and other Bb resources. Drop in for a support clinic or sign up for DoIT training. 
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Box  is an online file sharing system that can be accessed from multiple devices, including computers, smart phones, and tablets. Box  files can be easily shared with others by adding them as collaborators or providing a link for file viewing. You can organize your files into folders, upload documents and videos, and share this information on Blackboard.  Save time, space, and headaches by incorporating Box  into your daily workplace activities.

To learn more about Box:

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Users follow the same process by going to https://vpn.umbc.edu and logging in with your username and password. Instead of clicking the Network Connect button you will now click the JunOS Pulse button located in its place. It should automatically install just like Network Connect and should function in the same manner. 

The FAQs for both Mac and PC can be found below and will be updated before tomorrow. One thing to note for the Mac side is that you should launch this through firefox if possible since safari needs to have its java settings adjusted in order to work correctly.

Mac FAQ:
https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867888

Windows FAQ:
https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867886

Desktop support staff will be available as we do the cutover to help anyone who has trouble, please call the TSC if you have any questions or run into any issues using the Pulse client. 

Thank you, 

Damian


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]]> We will update the software on the TechSmith Relay server Friday, October 31 at 9:00 AM. The update should take about an hour. If one attempts to upload a recording during this window of time then... http://doit.umbc.edu/itnm/ https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/47620/guest@my.umbc.edu/21d7919522c7121764e5cce3f02e2bdb/api/pixel Division of Information Technology (DoIT) https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/original.JPG?1727453227 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/large.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/medium.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/small.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxsmall.png?1727453227 Division of Information Technology https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/047/620/840b2c22efca496f247caa4063cadd8c/xxlarge.jpg?1414501845 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/047/620/840b2c22efca496f247caa4063cadd8c/xlarge.jpg?1414501845 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/047/620/840b2c22efca496f247caa4063cadd8c/large.jpg?1414501845 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/047/620/840b2c22efca496f247caa4063cadd8c/medium.jpg?1414501845 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/047/620/840b2c22efca496f247caa4063cadd8c/small.jpg?1414501845 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/047/620/840b2c22efca496f247caa4063cadd8c/xsmall.jpg?1414501845 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/thumbnails/news/000/047/620/840b2c22efca496f247caa4063cadd8c/xxsmall.jpg?1414501845 2 0 false Tue, 28 Oct 2014 09:47:36 -0400 UMBC Establishes Adobe Campus Site License Adobe Creative Cloud now Available through myUMBC

This summer, working through the Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC), UMBC established a faculty/staff site license with Adobe for their new Creative Cloud offering (see detailed list of software below). This allows the use of the Adobe products on all institutional computers and includes a work-at-home provision for faculty and staff.


One challenge we had is that the contract could not go into effect till August 25th. As a result, we worked closely with Adobe to prioritize getting the software ready for the start of classes in UMBC instructional labs. The software is now available to download to faculty and staff desktops on the myUMBC software downloads page. Note: The work-at-home provision requires people to go through a 3rd party company and Adobe’s online portal. We are working with Adobe to get this up and running and will update our FAQs with information.


DoIT has updated both myUMBC and the software downloads page.


The adobe offering includes the following products:

  • Adobe Acrobat Pro XI

  • Adobe After Effects CC

  • Adobe Audition CC

  • Adobe Bridge

  • Adobe Dreamweaver CC

  • Adobe Edge Animate CC

  • Adobe Edge Code CC

  • Adobe Edge Inspect CC

  • Adobe Edge Reflow CC

  • Adobe ExtendScript Toolkit

  • Adobe Encore (included in Adobe Premiere Pro)

  • Adobe Extension Manager

  • Adobe Fireworks

  • Adobe Flash Builder Premium CC

  • Adobe Flash Professional CC

  • Adobe Illustrator CC

  • Adobe InCopy CC

  • Adobe InDesign CC

  • Adobe Lightroom

  • Adobe Media Encoder CC

  • Adobe Muse

  • Adobe Photoshop CC

  • Adobe Prelude™ CC

  • Adobe Premiere Pro CC

  • Adobe Scout CC

  • Adobe SpeedGrade™ CC

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Over the last year, we’ve been reviewing the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) organizational structure and focusing on building a broad and strong leadership team. As part of this effort we have looked at how our staff’s duties have changed over the last few years. At the same time, we have seen a number of staff leave to take new positions (Mike Carlin and Jesse Beauman left for UNC-Charlotte) or through retirement.


As a result, there are a number of changes that have taken place in DoIT and we want to update the community on these changes:


  • Arnold Foelster is now Director, Student Administration. Arnold is focused on operating and supporting our administrative systems used by students and faculty.

  • Stacy Long is now Director, HR & Finance Systems. Stacy is focused on operating and supporting our administrative systems used for HR and Finance.

  • Kevin Joseph is now Director, Business Analytics. Kevin oversees the technical implementation and operation of REX and ImageNow.

  • Todd Haddaway is now Director, Identity & Database Systems. Todd oversees the technical implementation of Identity Management and our Oracle Database Management Systems.

  • Tony Finneran is now Manager, Finance Systems. Tony is the lead on pre-award and post-award grants management and finance.

  • Kashka Donaldson is now Coordinator, ImageNow. Kashka oversees the work on ImageNow.

  • Damian Doyle is now Interim Director, Enterprise Infrastructure. Damian is responsible for the network, servers, storage and high performance computing.

  • Andrea Mocko is now Acting Coordinator of our Technology Support Center (TSC).


I want to congratulate all those listed above and thank them for all they have contributed to the success of DoIT and UMBC. ]]> Over the last year, we’ve been reviewing the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) organizational structure and focusing on building a broad and strong leadership team. As part of this effort... https://beta.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/47584/guest@my.umbc.edu/b5538dd2b517eb0528b864ad031d8a6e/api/pixel Division of Information Technology (DoIT) https://beta.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/original.JPG?1727453227 https://assets1-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets3-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/large.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/medium.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/small.png?1727453227 https://assets2-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets4-beta.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxsmall.png?1727453227 Division of Information Technology 0 0 true Sun, 26 Oct 2014 13:22:13 -0400 UMBC Achieves InCommon Bronze Certification
UMBC has become the third higher-education organization in the country to become certified for the Bronze Identity Assurance Profile under the InCommon Assurance Program.

InCommon developed the assurance program as part of its mission to provide secure and privacy-preserving trust services for its participants. Enabling higher-value, higher-risk services requires increased trust by the organizations that run the identity and cloud services.

“UMBC believes Identity management is absolutely essential to campus cyber security, and Bronze represents consensus best practice in identity management,” said Jack Suess, Vice President of Information Technology and CIO at UMBC. “It is in our interest to utilize these best practices in designing and implementing our identity management processes.”

InCommon currently has two US-Government approved assurance profiles — Bronze and Silver. Bronze is comparable to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Assurance 1 level, which has credential security adequate for basic Internet interactions. Silver, comparable to NIST’s level of Assurance 2, requires proof of identity and has security appropriate for higher-risk transactions.

At InCommon’s monthly IAM webinar series, Todd Haddaway, UMBC’s Director of Database and Identity Management, presented on the topic of UMBC’s experience with obtaining Bronze certification. The webinar can be viewed from the InCommon IAM Online webinar homepage. 

More information about the assurance program can be found at assurance.incommon.org.
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