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Update: UMBC Establishes Adobe Campus Site License

Adobe Creative Cloud for Personal Machines

Adobe Creative Cloud Software now available on Faculty and Staff Personal Machines As previously announced, UMBC is now licensed site wide for the use of the full Adobe Creative Cloud Suite of...

November 14, 2014 · 9:20 AM

Campus Help System (RT) hits new milestone

UMBC uses an open source system called Request Tracker (RT) from a company named BestPractical to provide help to the UMBC campus community at large. In fact UMBC has been recognized on the...

November 13, 2014 · 8:02 AM

Online Learning Consortium Offers Free Faculty Training

Learn best practices from experts & spark new ideas!

Through a University System of Maryland partnership with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), DoIT is pleased to offer an exceptional online training opportunity to UMBC full-time and part-time...

November 11, 2014 · 11:42 AM

Bb Achievements to Support Competency Based Learning

Use badges to motivate & reward students via gamification

As announced earlier this semester, Winter and Spring 2015 courses will be hosted by Blackboard directly instead of by DoIT. As part of this change, we will also upgrade to the Spring 2014 version...

November 4, 2014 · 1:01 PM

Instructional Technology for the Month of November

Box is an online file sharing system that can be accessed from multiple devices, including computers, smart phones, and tablets. Box files can be easily shared with others by adding them as...

November 1, 2014 · 9:14 AM

VPN client changing to JunOS Pulse over the next few weeks

Please note the change in rollout timing

The current campus VPN client, Network Connect, does not work with the new MAC Yosemite operating system and is no longer supported by the Vendor for the current Mac or PC operating system. We...

October 29, 2014 · 8:58 AM

TechSmith Relay Update

Scheduled Maintenance

We will update the software on the TechSmith Relay server Friday, October 31 at 9:00 AM. The update should take about an hour. If one attempts to upload a recording during this window of time then...

October 28, 2014 · 9:47 AM

UMBC Establishes Adobe Campus Site License

Adobe Creative Cloud now Available through myUMBC

This summer, working through the Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC), UMBC established a faculty/staff site license with Adobe for their new Creative Cloud offering (see detailed list...

October 26, 2014 · 2:03 PM

DoIT Organizational Leadershop Changes

Over the last year, we’ve been reviewing the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) organizational structure and focusing on building a broad and strong leadership team. As part of this effort...

October 26, 2014 · 1:22 PM

UMBC Achieves InCommon Bronze Certification

UMBC has become the third higher-education organization in the country to become certified for the Bronze Identity Assurance Profile under the InCommon Assurance Program. InCommon developed...

October 25, 2014 · 2:42 PM

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