Alternate Delivery Program Call for Participation Released Hybrid/Online Course Redesign for Summer and Winter Courses Faculty who are interested in effective hybrid course delivery are invited to submit a proposal for this innovative faculty support program.

The Alternate Delivery Program (ADP) offers technical, pedagogical, and financial support to a selected cohort of faculty members who agree to convert an existing in-person course to hybrid delivery mode and offer that course in Summer Session 2015.  The 2015 ADP will begin in January, 2015 with a two day workshop for faculty (January 14th and January 15th) and the course conversion process will continue throughout the spring semester with technical support from DoIT's Instructional Technology Team.  Proposals will also be considered from faculty who wish to convert a course to hybrid delivery and offer that course in Winter Session 2016.

For more information, please contact the POCs identified in the ADP Call for Participation, or plan to attend the ADP Information Session in November. The proposal submission deadline is December 5th.
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The report can be accessed by going to rex.umbc.edu, clicking on 'Guided Reports', then navigating to Curriculum Management > Course> Active GEP and GFR Classes.

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Faculty who plan to use clickers for instruction during the ​​Spring 2015 semester will need to have device order(s) submitted to the Bookstore no later than Friday, October 24, 2014. This deadline allows the Bookstore to shop national wholesalers early for used books and items, prepare for buyback, avoid sending back to publishers leftover stock that will be reused next semester, and notify faculty of any availability problems.


The University’s due date for textbook and course materials information is Monday, November 24, 2014. The University has instituted this deadline so that all textbook information, including clicker requirements, may be posted on the Bookstore's website, in adherence with State Law, as students prepare for their Spring 2015 schedules.


If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the UMBC bookstore at  textbook@umbc.edu or 410-455-2699.


To learn more about the clickers:



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Once we have finished our testing and developed documentation for the new client we will post another news article and the Technology Support Center and Desktop Support will be prepared to assist users with any questions regarding the new client. 

If you have upgraded to Yosemite and require the VPN, go to http://rt.umbc.edu to open a support ticket and we will work with you to get you working on the new client before its officially released. 

Thanks in advance for your patience as we work to resolve this issue. 

Damian
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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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DoIT will be moving several servers to a different location within our data center to provide them with better cooling and to utilize our space and power more efficiently. In order to accomplish this we will need to have short outages on several key systems. Individual services listed below should only be down for around 30-45 minutes each. All the outages will occur within the window listed below. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and we appreciate your patience as we


Sunday October 26th, 8am to Noon

  • Access to Cyrus and UMBC Webmail (accounts not migrated to UMBC Gmail)

    • All mail will be queued up and delivered after the server is brought back online

  • myUMBC lite page will be up resulting in reduced myUMBC functionality

  • The new web hosting environment will be partially down (pages will be available but any database calls will not work)

  • Student mySQL databases will be offline

  • Userpages will be unavailable

  • Wiki will be unavailable

  • License5 will be down (autodesk, cadence, idl, schrodinger, xilinx, mathematica)

  • Perseus will be unavailable

  • Lists will be unavailable

  • Webadmin will be unavailable



There will be no data loss during the outage and no user action is required prior to the downtime. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Technology Support Center at x53838.


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In the meantime, a hybrid design "brown bag" information session, "What does it mean to teach a hybrid course?" is scheduled next Wednesday, October 15, from noon - 1 PM.  Bring a lunch, and stop by to learn more about hybrid course delivery at UMBC.


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  • Wireless connectivity
  • Internet access
  • Off campus services including Box and Google services
  • Active Directory shared drives and services
  • Blackboard 

As of 12:15 MyUMBC and locally hosted mail services have been restored.  UMBC's GMAIL service was not impacted.

Peoplesoft services are currently being restored and we expect to be fully operational later this afternoon. 

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Maintenance typically takes place from 10 PM Friday to 1 AM Saturday. 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. This schedule does not reflect any emergency maintenance that may be required, and DoIT will make every effort to keep the campus informed in a timely manner if such unanticipated downtime is required.

We appreciate your patience as we strive to maintain our systems, especially during our transition to managed hosting.
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Effective today, Andrea Mocko has agreed to serve as acting coordinator of the Technology Support Center (TSC). Andrea has worked as a full-time specialist since summer of 2012, but has supervised all of the TSC’s 12-15 part-time student consultants since January 2013. In addition to hiring and training all student consultants, she developed a new employee orientation guide and took over curation of the popular Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs). During this time, student consultants have resolved nearly half of the TSC’s 100 tickets each week (5k per year).

Prior to earning her bachelor’s degree in Psychology from UMBC in 2012, Andrea worked as a TSC (formerly Help Desk) student consultant for four years. As a senior student consultant, she was also instrumental in the TSC’s move from the basement of the Engineering Building to the first floor of the Library, next to the Retriever Learning Center (RLC) in Summer of 2011.  

Currently, Andrea is enrolled in UMBC’s Master’s in Information Systems, with a concentration in Human Centered Computing (HCC). She also holds a post-bachelor’s certificate in Instructional Systems Design. 

Please join me in congratulating Andrea on her new duties.

John Fritz
Asst. Vice President, Instructional Technology
UMBC Division of Information Technology
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