Duringthe fall, DoIT will be working to relocate equipment used for critical campus services now in Public Policy to the research park. One benefit to the campus is that the BWTECH facility is on a different power feed than the campus and if power is lost to the campus, we may be able to keep power to the RP data center.

A second benefit is that this RP data center has considerably more cooling capacity and electrical capacity than any of our existing data centers. This provides an opportunity to expand our research computing facilities over the next few years should a large grant opportunity arise.

Finally, as part of improving the campus infrastructure, Physical Plant and Facilities are improving business continuity for the chilled water on campus and this will improve the PUP data center. Once this is done, DoIT will utilize the PuP facility to expand our support for department and research-based computing systems that are now limited due to cooling in the Engineering data center.

Since the initial roll-out of RT in DoIT, Finance, and HR, many other departments such as the Registrar’s Office, Graduate and Undergraduate Admissions, Parking Services, and Residential Life have also incorporated the ticketing system into their support processes.

Here are few of the success stories for those departments outside of DoIT.

Enjoy and feel free to share with others.

Joe

1. Reserve a ResponseWare session ID
2. Open the ResponsWare session for participants to connect to
3. Display the question you want your participants to answer (you can embed questions in a MS Power Point presentation or any other type of file you can display, or create questions directly in Turning Point Anywhere)
4. Press the start polling arrow in Turning Point Anywhere.
5. Press the same button to stop polling, and the results will display automatically on the screen, as well as on participants' devices.

For further information on using Turning Point Anywhere please register for a clicker workshop on the myUMBC Training group, or if you have at least 4 interested people, contact Karin Readel (readel@umbc.edu) to arrange for cohort-based training.