Faculty prioritize grading & assessments for Ultra’s future
About 76% of current & planned Ultra aligns with Original
When Ultra was first introduced at UMBC in SP2018, four adventurous faculty opted to use a newly redesigned Blackboard course interface in their courses. Ultra represented a new phase of Blackboard’s development, focusing on student success, responsive design, mobile friendliness, and embedded analytics. Nearly three years later, more than 300 faculty now use Ultra at UMBC across more than 1200 courses throughout the pandemic. Both students and faculty alike praise Ultra’s interface and usability.
Our Ultra adoption is around 40% of the total active Blackboard courses, with most faculty adoption occurring before the pandemic and a substantial surge occurring during the pandemic. A recent plateau in adoption suggested there might be some challenges we needed to confront with Ultra’s progress and discussions to consider. Before we can get to that point, we need to reflect on the last year of teaching online and a longer time of teaching with Ultra.
12 Months of Ultra Updates
Every month, our Blackboard site gets the latest updates, thanks to our cloud hosting. Given the broad scope that Ultra presents to courses, these updates may seem slower when released on a monthly cadence. However, the list of features and enhancements is quite substantial. Key highlights include conditional release of content by groups, new text formatting options including HTML blocks, batch enrolling students into groups, qualitative peer assessments, passcode protecting tests and test feedback/grade release, and 25 videos per page in Collaborate. With the May release, faculty can set up a drop grades rule in the Ultra gradebook.
Prioritizing What’s Needed for Ultra
Now that we know what's been added to Ultra, let's look at what we're still looking to enhance. In FA2019, we gathered 75+ of the requested features and functionality for Ultra and shared this critical information with Blackboard. In SP2021, we sent a survey to all faculty teaching Ultra to prioritize the key features by functional area. The Ultra prioritization survey helped us understand UMBC’s faculty priorities and gave Bb’s developers a strong framework for how our faculty used Ultra for teaching.
Figure 1: Summarizing Ultra tool needs: Shifting priorities between SP/FA2019 and SP2021. We looked at faculty feedback on Ultra from SP2019/FA2019 and FA2020 to compare priorities, noting that key functional areas have shifted. Whereas faculty once placed group management as a major concern in Ultra’s early development, grading and assessment are now at the top of the list.
Where is Ultra Going Next?
Last month, Wade Fields, product manager for Ultra’s development team, met with UMBC’s Ultra Faculty Ambassadors to share details about Ultra’s roadmap. The future of Ultra is planned in several phases, and it’s important to note that software development can change rapidly due to client feedback and other circumstances (like a pandemic). With that in mind, we can share these planned items, many of which are high priority items for our faculty.
Throughout SU2021, Blackboard anticipates releasing rubric feedback by criteria, right-to-left alignment for the content editor, audio/video recording support for course announcements, tables for the content editor, achievement support, and gradebook filtering by groups and other criteria. In the third quarter of 2021, Blackboard plans several exciting enhancements that align to our faculty priorities including point-based rubrics; assignment submission receipts for students; and personal pronouns and pronunciation name guides for all users.
On the longer term roadmap, Blackboard seeks to improve grading and assessment workflows including support for test display and continues to research improvements to the notification and messaging system. Goals include enhancing the course landing page, learning modules, accommodations, and offering deeper integrations for Google and Microsoft.
What Happens Next?
When asked, 56% of UMBC’s Ultra Faculty Ambassadors said they were satisfied that the proposed feature development of Ultra would support their upcoming teaching, and 44% were encouraged by the roadmap enough to keep watching and using Ultra for next year. However, Instructional Technology continues to track Ultra’s monthly development and engage Blackboard developers in conversations about essential features.
Figure 2: Ultra Feature Tracker. Currently Ultra aligns with about 76% of Original’s features, including those in research and development.
Transparency with the UMBC community is an essential part of the Ultra adoption process. Collecting feedback every semester, including the upcoming surveys for both faculty and students, is an essential part of our ongoing evaluation and project tracking. Please follow this myUMBC group for continued updates about Ultra.
As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology, please consider the following options:
By: Mariann Hawken
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“Virtual job-Fair” Impersonation Job Scams
Another Twist On The Basic "Work-At-Home" Scam
The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has seen more similar reports of a scammer using compromised UMBC accounts and claiming to be the Online employment coordinator for career and talent management. Below is the most recent example of this scam with the names and emails removed for privacy reasons.
From: (compromised user) <(compromised)@umbc.edu> Date: Tue, May 4, 2021 Subject: Virtual job-Fair To:
Hello, my name is Ben. I am currently the Online employment coordinator for Career & Talent Management which offers Virtual Career Fair for undergraduates and graduates There is a Part time virtual 'personal assistant' job available.Kindly send in a reply with your Resume and phone number if you are interested in a job. |
The scammer is claiming to be UMBC’s online employment coordinator and is offering a part time job as a virtual “personal assistant.” Even though this email looks to be coming from a UMBC user, the reply-to within the headers are set to <careerjobsdepartment@outlook.com> which is a red-flag for phishing emails.
This campaign is similar to one DoIT has seen recently. All these campaigns use compromised UMBC accounts and the same reply-to email address <careerjobsdepartment@outlook.com>. For more information on these similar campaigns please see this article: https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?id=101502.
If you have received this or a similar scam (like the ones linked above), please do not respond or click on any URLs.
What to do now?
If you do receive this or a similar scam, please DO NOT respond any further or click on any URLs. If you have provided any banking or financial information, please notify your bank or financial institution immediately. If you have been sent a check, you should not attempt to cash or deposit it. If you have deposited a check already, please contact your bank and tell them that it may be part of a scam.
Whether you responded to the scam or not, please forward the message (with the email headers) to security@umbc.edu. We will also keep track of any other information you submit about the scammers, such as their phone numbers. If you were sent a check or other materials, please send pictures of it and the envelope they came in.
How do I forward full email headers?
https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970
To read more articles published by DoIT Security please visit:
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?tag=notice.
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/home/covid-19-news/?tag=covid19
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Scammers Using WhatsApp
Scammers Don't Use Just Email
Recently the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has seen scammers asking students to use WhatsApp as a way to communicate. This article will go over some tips to help report and spot scammers on WhatsApp.
According to WhatsApp to report a user you have a few options. If you received an unsolicited message from an unknown person you will have the option to report the number directly in chat.
You can also report a contact or group from their profile using these steps:
Finally you do have the option to send reports to WhatsApp by contacting WhatsApp directly through the app.
WhatsApp also ask users to look out for messages that could by a scam by looking for these red flags:
Misspelling or grammatical mistakes.
Asking for you to tap on a link.
Asking for you to share personal and financial information. Also please do not give your personal or financial information to anyone online especially if you do not know them.
Asking you to forward the message.
Asking you to click on a link to “activate” new features.
Claiming that you have to pay to use WhatsApp.
Below are two links to articles of campaigns that DoIT has seen from scammers sending job scam emails asking for students to reply with their WhatsApp information.
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?id=101488
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?id=101178
What to do now?
If provided any banking or financial information, please notify your bank or financial institution immediately. If you have been sent a check, you should not attempt to cash or deposit it. If you have deposited a check already, please contact your bank and tell them that it may be part of a scam.
If you think you have been sent a scam please report it to security@umbc.edu and if any part of the scam was through emails please provide full email headers as well. We will also keep track of any other information you submit about the scammers, such as their phone numbers. If you were sent a check or other materials, please send pictures of it and the envelope they came in.
For more information from usa.gov please visit:
https://faq.whatsapp.com/general/security-and-privacy/staying-safe-on-whatsapp/?lang=en
How do I forward full email headers?
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Phishing Scam - Fake Email Spoofing the UMBC Registrar
Plesae Be Alert! This Is Not From The Registrar!
UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has received reports of a fairly sophisticated phishing attack appearing to come from the Registrar’s office.
Mail Headers:
From: UMBCHelp@rt.umbc.edu To: ********@umbc.edu Subject: Your email to the UMBC Registrar's Office Date: Mon, 10 May 2021 09:07:02 -0400 |
Message:
UMBCHelp - to admin Monday, May 10, 2021, 9:07 AM Thank you for contacting the UMBC Registrar's Office. Your message is important to us.
In an effort to better serve you, we ask that all campus inquiries to the Registrar's Office be submitted through UMBC's Request Tracker (RT) Trouble Ticket System.
Students and Staff: Please submit your inquiry utilizing the following link: http://registrar.umbc.edu/RT/Records/ (authentication required)
Parents and other non-UMBC affiliates: Please submit your inquiry utilizing the following link: http://registrar.umbc.edu/rt/parents-and-non-affiliates/ (no authentication required)
Please do not reply to this message. Replies to this message are routed to an unmonitored mailbox. If you have questions, please contact us using the information below.
Thank you,
UMBC Registrar's Office http://registrar.umbc.edu 410-455-2500
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____________________________________________________________________ This e-mail notification was sent to records@umbc.edu
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Clicking either of the buttons above will send you to a phishing site which will redirect you to yet another site which will try to collect personal information, download malicious software, or both.
What to do now?
If you do receive this or a similar phishing attempt, please DO NOT respond any further or click on any buttons or URLs. If you have already done so and provided any banking or financial information, please notify your bank or financial institution immediately.
Whether you responded to the message or not, please forward it (with the email headers) to security@umbc.edu.
How do I forward full email headers?
https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970
To read more articles published by DoIT Security please visit:
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?tag=notice.
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Significant Extension of HPCF CPU Cluster taki
Thank 10 faculty from 9 departments for 17 new CPU nodes!
Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students,
We are happy to share the news that HPCF is able to extend the CPU cluster in taki by 17 new nodes. DoIT has placed the purchase order last week.
We have to thank 10 faculty from 9 departments and research centers in all 3 colleges at UMBC for their community spirit and ability to help us all with this extension, namely:
CNMS:
Joe Bennett (Chemistry) 3 nodes,
Pengwang Zhai (Physics) 4 nodes,
Larrabee Strow (Physics) 1 node,
Matthias Gobbert (Mathematics and Statistics) 2 nodes
including one funded by Jerimy Polf (UMB School of Medicine),
COEIT:
Tyler Josephson (CBEE) 3 nodes,
Curtis Menyuk (CSEE) 1 node,
Chuck Eggleton (Mechanical Engineering) 1 node,
CAHSS:
Matt Baker (GES) 1 node,
Lee Boot (IRC and IS) 1 node.
To put this in perspective, this extends the current 44 CPU nodes from 2018 with two 18-core CPUs each by a significant percentage of 17 nodes from 2021 with two 24-core CPUs each. The 2018 nodes will continue to be valuable for large-memory jobs, since each node has 384 GB of memory, while the 2021 nodes will have 192 GB only, so they represent a different optimization of core count vs. memory size. The purchase made sense now, since the CPUs still share key architectural features with the 2018 nodes and thus enable simpler system administration.
As always, we take this opportunity to thank the Unix group, particularly Roy Prouty, Randy Phillip, and Tim Champ for their support and cooperation on our community-based High Performance Computing Facility. We all could not do it without them, and in turn we as faculty had a good chance here to contribute with the financing of this purchase.
The thumbnail photo with this post shows me (Gobbert) with our excellent HPCF RAs Carlos Barajas and Reetam Majumder in front of the 2018 equipment that we are extending with this purchase.
And as always, please remember to send us information on all publications that use HPCF, also on students' theses when they graduate! The list of publications is our most important documentation of outcomes.
(Chair of the HPCF Governance Committee and PI of the MRI grants to HPCF)
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Legacy Pulse VPN suffers fatal hardware failure
Legacy Pulse VPN may not recover from most recent failure
The legacy Pulse VPN has suffered a hardware failure and may not be recoverable. To access campus resources remotely please use the GlobalProtect VPN. Instructions for accessing this can be found here.
In January 2020 DoIT announced the replacement of the Pulse VPN with a new product. At that time, the Pulse VPN had reached its end of life and could no longer be supported. Since that time most of the campus has adopted the GlobalProtect solution however, DoIT has tried to maintain the Pulse system to support a graceful migration.
Over the last two days the Pulse system has suffered hardware failures that have become increasingly worse. Yesterday the Network team was able to restore service to the unit after a hardware failure took it offline. Today this service experienced a more severe hardware failure and recovery may not be possible. We will continue exploring options to temporarily establish the Pulse VPN service but this will only be a short term resolution.
A link to the GlobalProtect VPN instructions are included above, we strongly urge you to begin using this service now. If you experience any challenges installing the new VPN software, please contact the Technology Support Center.
Ray Soellner
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rays1@umbc.edu
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Coming Soon: Pinning Videos & Student Gallery View in Collab
Choose who you want to focus on during synchronous sessions
UPDATE: Following the introduction of gallery view to faculty in April 2021, we are pleased to announce that students and participants will also have access to 25 videos per page with the May update.
Sometimes it can important for users to choose who they want to focus on in a synchronous session. Instructors may want to keep a close eye on students who are struggling with the course. Students may want to follow a sign language interpreter, stay focused on the instructor, or see their study buddies. Gallery view introduced 25 videos per page in April 2021. With this month's Collaborate update, attendees can pin videos so they are always in view.
When you pin a video, it moves the video to the top of the list and pins, or anchors, it there. It doesn't change the number of videos you see, just the order you see them in.
Use the Attendee controls in the Attendees list or in the lower right corner of a video to pin and unpin videos. Pinned videos will appear in the order they were pinned, and you can pin more than one. Videos remained pinned even in breakout sessions. Only you know which video you pinned. Videos stay pinned until you unpin them or leave the session. Learn more with this FAQ.
NOTE: Only moderators can see more than 4 videos at a time. Increased access to gallery view will be gradually rolled out to attendees.
As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:
The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has seen reports of a scammer using compromised UMBC email accounts to send job scams. Below are examples of these scams with the names and email addresses removed for privacy reasons.
From: (compromised user) <(compromised)@umbc.edu> Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 11:37 AM Subject: virtual Work-Study To:
Good morning, my name is Brianna . I am currently the Online employment coordinator for Career & Talent Management which offers Virtual Career Fair for undergraduates and graduates. So if you are interested in an online/ part-time job kindly send in an instant reply so you can receive further information. |
From: (compromised user) <(compromised)@umbc.edu> Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2021 at 7:54 PM Subject: Virtual job-Fair To:
Hello, my name is Ben . I am currently the Online employment coordinator for Career & Talent Management which offers Virtual Career Fair for undergraduates and graduates There is a Part time job at Intuit Payroll Inc.Kindly send in an instant reply with your Resume and phone number if you are interested in the job. |
In these similar campaigns the scammer is using compromised UMBC accounts to impersonate UMBC members. The scammers are claiming to be the online employment coordinator for Career & Talent Management and asking for users to reply if interested.
Even though the emails look to be coming from UMBC accounts the reply-to in the headers are set to <careerjobsdepartment@outlook.com>.
The scammer has used different subject lines as well, so far DoIT has seen “virtual assistant offer!”, “Virtual job-Fair” and “virtual Work-Study” for this campaign. If you have received this or a similar email, please do not respond or click on any URLs.
What to do now?
If you do receive this or a similar scam, please DO NOT respond any further or click on any URLs. If you have provided any banking or financial information, please notify your bank or financial institution immediately. If you have been sent a check, you should not attempt to cash or deposit it. If you have deposited a check already, please contact your bank and tell them that it may be part of a scam.
Whether you responded to the scam or not, please forward the message (with the email headers) to security@umbc.edu. We will also keep track of any other information you submit about the scammers, such as their phone numbers. If you were sent a check or other materials, please send pictures of it and the envelope they came in.
How do I forward full email headers?
https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970
To read more articles published by DoIT Security please visit:
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?tag=notice.
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/home/covid-19-news/?tag=covid19
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“Job Opening” Administrative Assistant Job Scam
Biological Sciences is NOT hiring adminstrative assistants
The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) has seen reports of a scammer claiming to offer students a position as an administrative assistant. The scammer is also claiming to be both Jose Burgos and Professor Phyllis Robinson. Below is an example of this scam with the subject “Job Opening.”
From: Jose Burgos <briggenjoserburgos@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Apr 23, 2021 at 5:08 PM Subject: Job Opening To:
The services of a student administrative assistant is urgently required to work part-time and get paid $300 weekly. Tasks will be carried out remotely and work time is 7hrs/week. If interested, send a copy of your updated resume and a functional whatsapp number to our Department of Biological Sciences via this email address to proceed.
Sincerely Phyllis Robinson Professor Department of Biological Sciences Biological Sciences Bldg, Room 470 |
The message above was sent from a Gmail account <briggenjoserburgos@gmail.com> and not any official UMBC account. The email is claiming to offer a job as an administrative assistant and is asking students who are interested to reply with a functional whatsapp number and their resume.
According to reports, the scammer is using an official looking profile picture on Whatsapp and the phone number <1-903-500-6544>. The reason the scammer is asking students to use Whatsapp is that it leaves no record of the communication in UMBC systems. If you have received this or a similar email, please do not respond.
What to do now?
If you do receive this or a similar scam, please DO NOT respond any further or click on any URLs. If you have provided any banking or financial information, please notify your bank or financial institution immediately. If you have been sent a check, you should not attempt to cash or deposit it. If you have deposited a check already, please contact your bank and tell them that it may be part of a scam.
Whether you responded to the scam or not, please forward the message (with the email headers) to security@umbc.edu. We will also keep track of any other information you submit about the scammers, such as their phone numbers. If you were sent a check or other materials, please send pictures of it and the envelope they came in.
How do I forward full email headers?
https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867970
To read more articles published by DoIT Security please visit:
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/critical/?tag=notice.
https://itsecurity.umbc.edu/home/covid-19-news/?tag=covid19
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Extension of HPCF Publications Page with PDFs
Please provide PDF files of HPCF publications!
Dear Researchers, Colleagues, and Students,
This message starts with the usual reminder to send me references to publications that used HPCF and its cluster taki, so that we can post them as products of the NSF funding and the administration's support. Students, if you are graduating, please send me the title of your thesis, since those are a particular example of the community support.
Michelle Flinchbaugh <
flinchba@umbc.edu> from the AOK Library has copied over those publications from our HPCF publications page that had actual PDF files attached.
If you have preprints of your past work, whose reference we might already have on the HPCF publications page, please send them to me. This would improve our publications page and immensely help the Library to expand the work in MD-SOAR, which in turn raises visibility for your work and for UMBC.
I find this a very worthwhile effort, with support from the Faculty Senate, and we can all help and profit from this visibility. You can also copy Michelle, of course, for questions or to send the PDFs. My offer to collect them at HPCF first just tries to help out.
I would much appreciate your help with this initiative. If you have the PDF files already on your own publication page, please just let me know.
(Chair of the HPCF Governance Committee and PI of the MRI grants to HPCF)
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