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<Title>DoIT &amp; Blackboard Sponsor March 8 Focus Groups</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><p>UMBC is always looking for ways to gather feedback from our Faculty and Students. We would like to invite you to join a focus group on Friday March 8<sup>th</sup> to discuss your experience with Blackboard, use of technology on campus and customer service preferences.</p><ul><li><a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/events/16810" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Faculty Focus Group RSVP</a> (10:30 a.m.)</li><li><a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/events/16811" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Student Focus Group RSVP</a> (1 p.m.)</li></ul><p>These focus groups are by invitation only and will last up to 75 minutes.  </p></div>
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<Summary>UMBC is always looking for ways to gather feedback from our Faculty and Students. We would like to invite you to join a focus group on Friday March 8th to discuss your experience with Blackboard,...</Summary>
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<Title>Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 2/22 to 1 am 2/23</Title>
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<Summary>Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 2/22 to 1 am 2/23</Summary>
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<Title>Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm  2/22 to 1 am 2/23</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Bb service was restored by 11:20 pm 2/22.<br>-----------<br>The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 2/22 to 1 am Saturday 2/23.  This down time is during the <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/news/22795" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">regularly scheduled maintenance window</a> and is necessary for DoIT staff to perform routine server maintenance. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience that this down time may cause.</div>
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<Summary>UPDATE: Bb service was restored by 11:20 pm 2/22. ----------- The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 2/22 to 1 am Saturday 2/23.  This down time is during the regularly...</Summary>
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<Title>Known Issue: Blackboard System Being Restarted 2/16</Title>
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<Summary>Known Issue: Blackboard System Being Restarted 2/16</Summary>
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<PostedAt>Sat, 16 Feb 2013 21:00:27 -0500</PostedAt>
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<Title>Known Issue: Blackboard System Being Restarted 2/16</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">Over the weekend, <a href="http://doit.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">DoIT</a> has received reports from campus users of issues with the <a href="http://blackboard.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard system</a>.  Most of these reports involved quizzes or other assessments not loading when students clicked on the available link in their Bb course.  <a href="http://doit.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">DoIT</a> staff have submitted a ticket with <a href="http://blackboard.com" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard, Inc</a>. and will be restarting the entire <a href="http://blackboard.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard system</a> on Saturday night to see if this will fix the issue.<a href="http://blackboard.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"> Blackboard </a>will be unavailable while the system is being restarted. If you continue to experience issues with Blackboard we encourage you to submit an <a href="http://rt.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">RT ticket</a> to report the problem.<br><br>We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience during this unanticipated outage. <br></div>
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<Title>SCEQ Profile report is now available</Title>
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