Faculty who plan to use clickers for instruction during the ​​Spring 2016 semester will need to have device order(s) submitted to the Bookstore no later than Thursday, November 24. 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 also Thursday, November 24. 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 2017 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:

• visit our Clicker FAQ page

• open an RT Ticket for any technical issues

• view the schedule of training workshops on the  Instructional Technology Group page 

A new REX guided report has been developed to compare enrollment capacity for a term to the same term in the prior year.  Some of the questions you can answer  ...

• How do our seat counts for the selected term compare to the prior year? Are we offering more or fewer seats?

• How do our section counts for the selected term compare to the prior year? Are we offering more or fewer sections?

• How much did course enrollment capacity change the prior year between advance registration and begin term census (BTC aka Day 10)?

The report can be found in

Home > Curriculum Management > Course > Course Enrollment Capacity Comparison to Prior Year

Beginning early this morning, there has been a widespread denial of service attack against one of the Internet domain name providers. This attack has been affecting many sites and services on the east coast and throughout the US. We have noticed services being disrupted or unavailable to many sites including Box.com, Twitter, Spotify, Paypal, Netflix, CNN and various others. 

The company is working to get access to these and other affected sites restored as quickly as possible. I've included an excerpt from the company, DYN, that is being attacked. 

For the most up to date information on the status of Box.com, please go to their services dashboard:

https://box.statuspage.io/

Excerpt from Dyn's website and a link to their monitoring page:

https://www.dynstatus.com/incidents/nlr4yrr162t8

From Dyn.com:

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"This attack is mainly impacting US East and is impacting Managed DNS customers in this region. Our Engineers are continuing to work on mitigating this issue.

Starting at 11:10 UTC on October 21th-Friday 2016 we began monitoring and mitigating a DDoS attack against our Dyn Managed DNS infrastructure. Some customers may experience increased DNS query latency and delayed zone propagation during this time. Updates will be posted as information becomes available.

Customers with questions or concerns are encouraged to reach out to our Technical Support Team."

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If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me for more information.

Thank You, 

Damian Doyle

Senior Director of Enterprise Infrastructure

DoIT - UMBC

“There would be people stopping at the desk for on the cuff technical support.”

“RT does all the heavy lifting, and gets it done.”

“Other universities point to what we have and say ‘I want that’”