To all taki users: System Administrators will be taking the taki cluster environment offline Wednesday September 13 from 0800-1700. This is to upgrade the workload management software, SLURM....
September 12, 2023
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Do you have a digital teaching best practice or experience to share with other educators? What strategies help educators excel and thrive in a shifting higher education landscape? Share your...
September 7, 2023
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Yesterday morning around 11am the campus suffered a cut to its main fiber optic cable feed that provides Internet connectivity to the campus. The cable was damaged by construction crews located a...
September 1, 2023
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Preview new AI course design assistant tools also coming
As the fall semester starts, the next update for Ultra courses brings improvements to the course management tools and a new stock image resource for course banners. Additionally, faculty will also...
August 31, 2023
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Discover how and when students engage with course content
The success of students in a Blackboard course is often dependent on their level of engagement and their ability to stay on track with course content and assignments. As an instructor, it's...
August 30, 2023
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GL (gl.umbc.edu) is UMBC's student general access Unix system which is often used for classes. Now that all faculty, staff and students are enrolled in Duo, beginning today, logging in to GL...
August 29, 2023
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Best Practices to Prep Your Ultra Gradebook for the Semester
Allocating time to configure the Ultra gradebook before the semester starts can support efficient grading throughout the semester. In the recent Gradebook Hacks: 5 Tips to Prep for the Semester...
August 29, 2023
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MIIC announces that BCPS has joined the Cyber Range
The Maryland Institute for Innovative Computing (MIIC) is pleased to announce that Baltimore County Public Schools (BCPS) is now the newest member of the Maryland Education Cyber Range initiative,...
August 23, 2023
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To all taki users, The taki downtime scheduled for today from 0800-1700 has completed. We have updated the operating system and cluster management software stack. We have run some small jobs...
August 22, 2023
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5:57 PM
The REX maintenance has been completed and REX is now available. As a reminder, as part of this upgrade we renamed the servers. What this means to you. If you have bookmarked links to...
August 19, 2023
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