Phishing Scams Continue!
Recently, UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT) received a report of a new phishing campaign. The actors compromised Professor Kang's account and sent out a job phishing scam....
April 17, 2022
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9:04 PM
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Avoid Identity Theft - especially of your own Identity
Over the past weeks, we have seen an increase in compromised accounts. So, here at UMBC’s Division of Information Technology (DoIT), we thought it was imperative to share some tips on safeguarding...
April 17, 2022
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8:45 PM
Courses Before Summer 2019 to be Retired
During Summer 2022, DoIT staff and Blackboard will archive our entire instance of Blackboard, which will save individually backed-up copies of every course and organization through SP2022. Courses...
April 13, 2022
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2:40 PM
To all HPCF users, Our work bringing the two HPCF cluster environments up-to-date has concluded. Please begin normal use of the clusters. Please let us know if you have any questions or...
April 13, 2022
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12:14 AM
Also discover student views of Collab recordings
While teaching a synchronous session using web conferencing tools, instructors juggle content, conversation, and context. Engaging participants and maintaining a high level of interaction is an...
April 11, 2022
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3:30 PM
DoIT began the transition to Akindi bubble sheets in FA2021
At the end of Spring 2021, DoIT announced a pilot of Akindi, a tool that serves as a Scantron alternative that allows instructors to print and score bubble sheets from any local printer/scanner....
April 7, 2022
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8:19 AM
To all HPCF users, On Tuesday April 12, 2022 both HPCF clusters (ada & taki) as well as the other compute systems that make use of HPCF Research Storage will be down and inaccessible from...
April 4, 2022
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11:30 AM
Review upcoming change & plan a course migration over summer
Beginning in late spring and moving into summer, faculty will see extensive upgrades to Ultra courses, particularly in the areas of assessment and grading. This focus aligns with feedback from...
April 1, 2022
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9:56 AM
IMPORTANT
I wanted to inform you that we are working on an issue with the connection to DocuSign from UMBC. At this time the issue is only affecting new form creation for Enterprise forms. Our...
March 16, 2022
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10:40 AM
Early predictions give us more time to help!
The Data Science Team recently released its set of predictions for the 6-year graduation probabilities of the 2020 Freshman cohort. Below is a snapshot of the current cohort's predictions, in...
March 16, 2022
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9:24 AM