Taki Login Node downtime tomorrow at 5 pm (Login Reboot)
We are installing patches on the login nodes
We will be taking a brief downtime on the login nodes to install patches. This will not effect running jobs, but you will be logged out of the taki.rs.umbc.edu and other login nodes. We expect this downtime to be brief. Please let us know if you have any questions.
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Mon, 14 Dec 2020 10:49:47 -0500
Tue, 22 Dec 2020 11:14:51 -0500
Google Widespread Outage early Monday Morning
Email, Calendar and Docs are unavailable until 8:00am
This morning Google had a widespread outage that affected all of their services, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs, Google Meet and Youtube. Service was quickly restored by approximately 8:00am but users may have noticed connection issues getting into their Email or accessing other Google services this morning.
This wasn't specific to UMBC, it was a larger outage within Google itself. Other UMBC services like Blackboard and Peoplesoft were unaffected.
At this point we don't have any additional information on the cause of the outage.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
Damian Doyle
Associate Vice President of Enterprise Infrastructure
DoIT - UMBC
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Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:23:22 -0500
Outcomes Report of NSF MRI Grant Posted
Report provides visual highlights of work using taki
Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students,
In 2017, a group of 51 UMBC researchers was successful in competing for an MRI (Major Research Infrastructure) grant from the NSF. Having this many faculty -- by my estimate one eighth of all UMBC research/teaching faculty! -- is a powerful signal of the importance of HPCF to the campus and well-appreciated by the NSF program directors. This was in fact the third successful MRI for HPCF, after 2008 and 2012, which in total provided over $1M in funding from the NSF to this campus initiative.
The support of $789,076 financed the extension and update of HPCF with the 2018 equipment, comprising 44 CPU nodes with two 18-core Intel Skylake CPUs and 384 GB of memory each, one node with four NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs connected by NVLink, and 8 Big Data nodes with 48 TB disks across 12 hard drives each. The total includes $236,723 cost-sharing funded by UMBC, and we acknowledge this excellent cooperation, in particular with DoIT.
The 3-year grant has formally ended, and an Outcomes Report provides a two-page highlighted summary of the achievements during the funding period. A PDF file of this report from 2020 is now posted on the HPCF webpage under the Research tab, adding to the corresponding report from 2015. I thank the colleagues Daniel Lobo, Curtis Menyuk, Jerimy Polf, Jianwu Wang, Meilin Yu, and Zhibo Zhang for providing the visuals and project information in the Outcomes Report. It represents a wonderful cross-section of the activity using taki.
(Chair of the HPCF Governance Committee and PI of the MRI grants)
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Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:36:43 -0500
HPCF Usage Stats Posted
Taki usage is analyzed by PI groups and architecture
Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students,
User support in collaboration with system administrators have developed visual representation of monthly usage levels of taki's CPU and GPU clusters. You can find this data at hpcf.umbc.edu under the Research tab, where it will be updated every month.
The raw data are in units of core-hours for the CPU cluster and GPU-hours for the GPU cluster, separated by architecture denoted by the year of acquisition. Stacked bar charts add up to the total available hours, while bar charts and line plots show the percentage of use on each architecture. Analysis by most active PI groups are shown in various styles including line graphs.
The visuals show that decommissioning the 2009 CPU nodes in October did not change the usage levels. They also show that usage levels saw a very precipitous drop after spring break 2020 and that research productivity has recovered fully since then. This goes along with continued increase in use of the 2018 hardware in the CPU cluster. The analysis of most active PI groups indicates shifts over time and brings out that most groups use either the CPU or the GPU cluster.
As regular reminder, please send me references to publications! We can also post other newsworthy stories here, so feel free to contact me.
(Chair of the HPCF Governance Committee and PI of the MRI grants)
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Ultra enhances test feedback & journal grading for winter
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Four exciting updates come to Ultra for winter courses. Grading enhancements for journals, test feedback release settings, an updated content editor, and support for HTML content are new features for Ultra courses.
Journals - Instructors can clearly see when students post new journals and comments, and can view a single submission. Instructors can also use Ultra’s grading tools, including feedback and rubrics, to create and post grades. Both participation and submission views link to the gradebook. By default, students will be allowed to delete and edit their journal entries and comments, but instructors can also now choose to disable this permission.
Tests - Instructors can enable more granular controls on when and what type of feedback is given to students when taking an assessment. Set up timed release to automated question feedback, correct answers, and question scores. Select when to show feedback: after submission, after due date, at a specific date, or after the assessment is graded. Students will see if and when feedback will be available for a specific assessment after they submit an attempt.
Gradebook - In the Student List View, instructors will receive additional search capabilities, column sorting options, and enhanced page controls for both large and small devices.
Formatting tools - Format content in a variety of different ways, including font colors, font sizes, and font style. A redesigned tool base provides a secondary bar that displays additional options, which is helpful on smaller screens. Students and faculty will see these changes everywhere they encounter the rich text editor in Ultra courses. (available January 7, 2021)
HTML Content Block in Ultra Documents -
Instructors can create, edit, and delete custom HTML/CSS code blocks in Ultra course documents. Instructors can select Add HTML when creating a document to add their own HTML and CSS and fully customize the appearance of their Ultra course documents. See example 1 and example 2. NOTE: Use of this feature requires 1) knowledge of HTML to create this type of content and 2) back-end creation on supporting systems, which are in development on UMBC's Blackboard site. We expect this functionality to be available for SP2021.
Finally, a new feature for support will deploy in early January, allowing users to provide critical information to DoIT staff in the event a technical issue must be escalated to Blackboard. Currently, there isn’t an easy way to capture what a user was doing at the time an issue occurred. With this update, users will now be able to capture their most recent session data -- the last 30 actions the taken in Blackboard -- and send it to DoIT staff, which can be used to identify root issues or escalate to Blackboard support. This feature will be available in the Support Panel as well as anywhere the “Oops! Your name is not on the list” message can occur.
Faculty who are interested in test driving new features before they are released to production should
open an RT ticket to request early access.
As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
In any online learning experience, it's important for students to be able to engage socially and collaboratively. Interactions with peers and instructors can lead to greater student success. Collaborate introduces two new features to its chat functionality to support increased engagement: chat mentions and formatted messaging.
With the December update, attendees can tag someone in a Collaborate chat when they mention them. Anyone tagged is notified so they don't miss it. Moderators are identified with a MOD label so they are easy to find. Collaborate also features a new text editor in the chat panel. This text editor is simple and features only bold, italics, and underline. One way to use this new formatting option is to highlight a chat announcement in bold to make a message more noticeable in a busy conversation.
Currently, Collaborate can support regular sessions of 250 attendees or supersized sessions up to 500 attendees. In preparation for WT/SP2021, faculty and community leaders can leverage Collaborate to support large scale sessions up to 1,000 attendees. There are limitations to supersized sessions, however:
- Webinar sessions can't be longer than 24 hours in length
- Guests must be assigned the participant role
- Participant permissions are turned off
- Breakout groups are not available
Learn more about configuring Collaborate to support a supersized session.
As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
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Free VoiceThread workshops available in January 2021
Add media-rich, asynchronous engagement in your courses
- Demonstrate procedures to help students prepare for a practical exam
- Explain decisions when selecting subjects for a painting’s composition
- Foster greater community in large, lecture-based classes
- Debate the pros and cons of a controversial issue
- Practice foreign language skills during role-play
- Critique a classmate’s composition
Attend these upcoming live workshops:
VoiceThread Basics 1: Upload, Comment, and Share
Participants will learn how to upload media, comment and annotate on that media, and share it with others. This will be a slow paced, step-by-step, hands-on workshop.
VoiceThread Basics 2 - Groups and Secure Sharing
Participants will learn how to create groups and subgroups, set sharing permissions within those groups, and privately share VoiceThreads with individuals.
VoiceThread Basics 3- Moderating comments, private and threaded replies, and copying
Participants will learn how to give private feedback, use threaded commenting, copy VoiceThreads for use with multiple groups, and use comment moderation to formatively assess student work.
VoiceThread and Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
Participants will learn how VoiceThread can help educators provide multiple means of engagement, representation, action and expression for their courses. We will demonstrate how to use VoiceThread’s multi-modal communication platform, closed captioning features, and VoiceThread Universal to design accessible lessons. This will be the first showcase of the new VoiceThread Universal!
Can't attend? Sign up to get a recording link or visit the VoiceThread workshop archive.
As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
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Phone System Patching Tonight
Tonight after 8pm the VoIP phone system will be updated
Tonight after 8pm the VoIP phone system will receive software updates. This update is in effort to enable new features and services needed to support an ongoing project for the campus.
We expect minimal impact to calling services. Some users may experience a dropped call or degraded call quality for a short period of time but prolonged service disruption is not anticipated.
We apologize for any inconveniences that this may cause but greatly appreciate your understanding and support. If you have any questions or concerns about this work please feel free to reach out via the email below.
Thank you,
Ray Soellner
Associate Director - DoIT
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Lumen OHM & Waymaker Learning Communities for Faculty
Learn about a homework system to support OER resources
Hello!
I want to make sure you’re aware of next week’s webinar about a unique professional development opportunity for Maryland faculty using Lumen’s Waymaker or OHM courseware. Here are the details:Success Accelerator Learning Communities for Maryland Faculty Using Lumen OHM & Waymaker
Wednesday, December 9, 2020 at 3:00-3:45 pm ET
Have you considered adopting Lumen Waymaker or OHM for one of your courses but been concerned about how much support you’ll have in making the transition? Are you interested in connecting and sharing ideas with faculty from other institutions who use Lumen Waymaker and OHM? Would you like to explore how to use these courseware tools more fully to engage students and support their success?
The Lumen Circles Success Accelerator program may be a good fit for you. Join this webinar for a guided tour of Success Accelerator’s virtual communities of practice. Hear from a panel of Maryland faculty members about how these peer-based learning circles expand their understanding of evidence-based teaching practices and strengthen student success using Lumen courseware.
This professional development program is available at no cost to Maryland faculty, offered with support from the Maryland Open Source Textbook (M.O.S.T) Initiative and USM OnTrack.
Click here to register for this informational webinar. If you're interested but cannot attend, please register so we can send you the recording afterwards.
Click here to apply for the Lumen Circles Success Accelerator program.
If you have specific questions, you are always welcome to email us at most@usmd.edu.
Good luck with the end of your semester and I do hope you’ll find time to rest and regenerate over the semester break.
MJ
Dr. MJ Bishop
Associate Vice Chancellor and Director
William E. Kirwan Center for Academic Innovation
University System of Maryland
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Save the Date: PIVOT Special Topics Jan 11-14, 2021
Mark your calendars! The PIVOT Special Topics pathway is designed to supplement existing PIVOT resources and enhance the instructor’s online teaching toolkit.
Dates: January 11-14, 2021
Time: 12 PM - 1 PM
Online via Collaborate
The proposed PIVOT Special Topics will feature four topics requested by faculty from the list below:- Managing online assessments (policies, practices, formats)
- Effectively organizing course content in a Bb course shell (Ultra)
- Effectively organizing course content in a Bb course shell (Original)
- Identifying appropriate tools for content delivery
- Identifying appropriate tools for student engagement
- Strategies & tools to monitor student performance, retention & success
- Strategies to improve accessibility & Universal Design for Learning
- Strategies to increase student engagement in the live virtual classroom
- Strategies to manage tools & participants the live virtual classroom
- Improving an online course using Quality Matters
Note: Items in italics are currently trending higher based on faculty feedback.
The daily schedule will be finalized and posted to myUMBC in mid-December before the winter break. Sessions will be recorded and posted to the training archive.
As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
