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MSRP: Supplemental Retirement Webinars: December 2025

Registration is now open!

MSRP webinars are open to all Faculty and Staff. Click here to Register. All webinars are approximately 45 minutes in length. "Saving for a Purpose: Strategies for Achieving Your Financial...

December 10, 2025 · 8:32 AM

Yuja Migration Delayed to Mid-January

Blackboard Panopto access remains through Spring Break

As we prepare for Winter 2026, we need to update the campus on our transition from Panopto to YuJa as UMBC's new video capture and hosting platform. While you can begin using YuJa for recording...

December 9, 2025 · 5:07 PM

Blackboard to Launch New FAQs in mid-December

DoIT to review UMBC-related Bb FAQs as a result

Blackboard is rolling out a significant upgrade to its documentation experience this month, and UMBC users will begin seeing the first changes on December 10. Blackboard's new help site features a...

December 9, 2025 · 1:55 PM

5 Ways to Create “Born Accessible” Course Materials

If you can click it, you can fix it.

As UMBC continues strengthening digital accessibility across teaching and learning, many faculty have already taken steps to reduce, remake, and remediate existing documents, videos, and course...

December 9, 2025 · 8:59 AM

Make Your Course Media Accessible: Video Captions and Audio Descriptions Support Every Learner

Captioning & Audio Description Tips for Every Instructor

Video can be one of the most effective teaching tools you use, especially when every student can access the content. Captions and audio descriptions boost clarity, reinforce key ideas, and...

December 8, 2025 · 12:56 PM

TIAA December Webinars!

Financial know-how starts here!

These financial webinars are open to all Faculty and Staff, regardless of your retirement plan or vendor. Register for TIAA’s live webinars to get financial information, news and tips from their...

December 8, 2025 · 10:32 AM

The Three-Step Framework for Accessible Documents: Reduce, Remake, Remediate

If you can click it, you can fix it.

When it comes to improving digital accessibility, documents and PDFs are often the biggest barrier -- and the biggest opportunity. Whether you're uploading files to Blackboard, sharing materials...

December 4, 2025 · 3:42 PM

DOIE December 2025 Highlights

This December, the Division of Institutional Equity has a full lineup of events and opportunities for the UMBC community. All events and opportunities across the division are open to full...

December 4, 2025 · 10:12 AM

State Wellness webinars: December 2025

December is for Thriving for the Holidays!

The State Wellness Program aims to motivate, inspire, and educate employees through monthly wellness webinars (live and on-demand), healthy challenges, guided meditations, wellness coaching, and...

December 3, 2025 · 3:55 PM

Set Clear Expectations for Discussions in the December Ultra Update

New options for releasing content

What if your discussion assignments could set clear expectations up front? Could your students benefit if your course could respond to their questions before you checked your inbox? The December...

December 2, 2025 · 2:57 PM

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