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Improve Accessibility of Blackboard Course Content with Ally

Build inclusive environment for all student learning styles

To support UMBC’s ongoing commitment to a more inclusive campus, DoIT is pleased to introduce a new tool called Ally into Ultra courses to help improve the accessibility of course content in...

March 13, 2019 · 11:35 AM

Learn the Basics of Inclusive Design for Online Education

Check out this Free Coursera MOOC!

Free Coursera MOOC - Learn the Basics of Developing an Inclusive & Accessible Course This 5 week course provides instruction and strategies to support you in developing a course that is...

March 11, 2019 · 10:32 AM

TechFest & Ultra Early Adopter Raffle Winners Announced!

On Friday, March 1, 2019, DoIT's Instructional Technology Team held its 4th annual TechFest. As part of TechFest, participants were asked to complete evaluation surveys for each of the three...

March 8, 2019 · 10:09 AM

Learn about open educational resources and adoption in USM

Register for a M.O.S.T. Regional Forum on OER in Higher Education Are you new to open educational resources (OER) and interested in learning how to adopt or scale OER in your course or across...

March 5, 2019 · 1:42 PM

Digital Workflow Promotes More Comunication and Efficiency

OFAS Utilizes DocuSign to Expedite the Financial Aid Process

For months now, newly accepted students have been facing the important decision of where to attend college. For most, one of the biggest factors will be how much money they are able to secure in...

February 27, 2019 · 10:35 AM

Emergency Phonemail Repairs Complete

Phone repairs have been completed, systems fully operational

At 7pm we completed the emergency repairs on the phonemail system while maintaining all data stored on the node. Since that time all phonemail services are fully operational. We will continue to...

February 26, 2019 · 9:59 PM

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Emergency Phone Mail and Call Processing Outage Later today

Beginning over the weekend and continuing into today a number of users and phone numbers may have experienced intermittent phonemail service including both voicemail and call processing boxes. We...

February 26, 2019 · 2:06 PM

Intermittent Phonemail Services

DoIT is working to repair hardware in a phonemail node

Beginning over the weekend and continuing into today some users may have experienced intermittent phonemail service including both voicemail and call processing boxes. We are experiencing hardware...

February 26, 2019 · 9:05 AM

Ultra adoption takes off as 145 courses opt in

More than 900% increase in adoption since FA2018

Early adoption is growing at UMBC as more than 100 faculty opted to use the new Ultra Course View during the SP2019 semester. An additional 25 faculty tried Ultra using the sandbox shells created...

February 22, 2019 · 9:07 AM

VoiceThread is offering free interactive, hands-on workshops

Extend your asynchronous discussions beyond text!

VoiceThread allows you to integrate digital media such as images, videos, and documents into asynchronous discussions. Faculty and students can contribute to discussions using a keyboard,...

February 21, 2019 · 1:09 PM

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