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Payroll & DoIT collaborate to digitize a paper process
In late January 2016, Lisa Drouillard, Director of Payroll, and Lance Rand, Manager and Software Developer for DoIT’s Business Service Group, began meeting to streamline and digitize the contract...
February 27, 2017
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10:53 AM
This morning around 9:10am we experienced a failure of several disk arrays on our central storage system. The arrays that failed affected several critical systems, including myUMBC and parts of...
February 20, 2017
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11:53 AM
Meet one of the many students working at the TSC
Located on the first floor of the Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, The Technology Support Center (TSC) is the first stop in assisting the UMBC community with technology questions and requests....
February 13, 2017
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10:07 AM
Personal Assistant Job Offer is a Fraudulent Check Scam
We have received complaints about people receiving fraudulent job offer emails from con-artists. In some of the job offers, the con-artist offers to pay $200 weekly for running errands,...
February 13, 2017
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8:57 AM
Study Abroad Office and DoIT Launch New Tool for Students
16 years ago, the Study Abroad Office (SAO) had a simple software tool called FileMaker Pro to track study abroad requests. However, many of the ‘features’ the tool could not adequately match the...
February 10, 2017
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6:54 AM
Earlier today some users on campus experienced slowness or inability to access certain aspects of the Peoplesoft Student Administration System. We have worked to stabilize the system have...
January 30, 2017
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4:17 PM
How collaboration brought the Schedule Planner to UMBC
It was several years ago that UMBC students decided that the best tool for them to utilize would be a 'schedule builder'. They created a custom program that would look at the list of classes being...
January 24, 2017
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12:19 PM
Interactive tool helps you build the best schedule
The Schedule Planner offered by UMBC is a dynamic tool that can generate multiple possible schedules, and then send them to checkout in PeopleSoft. You can access it by navigating to myUMBC,...
January 23, 2017
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3:16 PM
A master in database performance tuning & web services
DoIT would like to recognize our own Jeremy Gude for receiving the Employee of the Quarter (EOQ) award. The EOQ program recognizes the outstanding qualities and contributions of employees towards...
January 17, 2017
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12:26 PM
With help from DoIT, a new cloud solution was implemented
Student Disability Services (SDS) had a major problem. Their paper system they relied on for years was not keeping up with the increased demand they saw at their office. Rather than look for help...
January 17, 2017
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11:52 AM