Over the last year we have seen a number of academic and administrative departments begin to use Skype video conferencing service to interview candidates for positions at UMBC or graduate students...
December 6, 2013
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6:53 PM
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The logic of carpooling is simple: it reduces the costs for all parties involved and takes at least one car off the road. If other students are coming from the same area and heading to UMBC around...
December 6, 2013
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2:50 PM
Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) or Use Ours
Starting in January and subject to user demand, as well as support staff capacity, DoIT is going to experiment with offering regular, informal Drop-In consulting sessions that focus on one of the...
December 6, 2013
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2:31 PM
Fall hours at the Technology Support Center (TSC) will end on December 18th. Beginning on December 19th, the TSC will adjust it’s hours to fit with to the Library’s hours. These hours will last...
December 6, 2013
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1:51 PM
DoIT is offering Departments Options for Upgrades
Microsoft is ending support for Windows XP and will no longer be releasing security updates as of April 1, 2014. Audit regulations require that all machines used for administrative or academic use...
December 5, 2013
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5:09 PM
Downtime Will Be 8 a.m. to Noon.
From 8 a.m. to Noon on Monday, December 30th the DoIT staff will be upgrading our OpenAFS file system used to support our Unix environment. The upgrade will involve bringing up new hardware and...
December 5, 2013
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4:56 PM
Got Questions? We Have Answers!
In anticipation of faculty support needs associated with the coming term and Blackboard upgrades, DoIT will be offering additional weekly drop-in hours beginning Monday, December 9th. A DoIT...
December 5, 2013
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3:27 PM
WT2014 Courses Now Available at bb-winter.umbc.edu
As previously announced, the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) will upgrade UMBC's production Blackboard system from January 8 to 10, 2014. Due to the disruption caused by the upgrade,...
December 5, 2013
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1:35 PM
WT2014 Bb shells are located at http://bb-winter.umbc.edu
UMBC Blackboard (Bb) course shells for both SP2014 and WT2014 were created on December 2, 2013. The course shells for SP2014 are located on the Bb production server at...
December 5, 2013
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11:26 AM
This Friday, Dr. Robert Deluty (UMBC’s Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Associate Professor of Psychology) will talk with graduate students about stress. This is an important seminar that is...
December 4, 2013
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10:28 PM