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Over the summer, DoIT’s instructional technology team delivered four cohorts of PIVOT+ training to 275 UMBC faculty. Leveraging peer mentors and daily webinars focused on effective pedagogy for...
August 14, 2020
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7:46 AM
August 15: unavailable for 3 hours
Downtime On Saturday, August 15, Panopto will be making a number of updates to their Cloud infrastructure to improve performance and scalability. These updates will require up to 3 hours of...
August 13, 2020
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6:34 PM
Make sure you're tech "self-sufficient" to learn online
The start of semester is always busy, but especially during a global pandemic. We got through Spring 20, but since every student will likely have at least one online or hybrid Fall 20 course, the...
August 12, 2020
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9:05 PM
IMPORTANT
Please be aware that the DocuSign system use had exceeded our vendor enforced limit of a 1,000 transactions per hour. It stopped creating envelope transactions for approximately 10 minutes from...
August 12, 2020
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12:15 PM
Partner with Lumen Learning for adaptive courseware adoption
There is still time to consider an adaptive courseware adoption for the fall semester! USM OnTrack has partnered with Lumen Learning to provide free professional development and support services...
August 10, 2020
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6:11 PM
Attend Innovating STEM Education 2020 online August 19-21
OLC Ideate Labs for Online STEM: Innovating STEM Education 2020 With COVID pandemic, virtual labs are now a requirement rather than a "nice to have". There are many technologies and...
August 10, 2020
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5:49 PM
Check out this updated content on the OnTrack website!
The USM OnTrack website has been updated to include new Online Teaching Resources. USM has revamped the emergency remote teaching web resources shared last spring to focus on the pivot to...
August 10, 2020
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5:43 PM
The dial in feature in Webex Meeting is now working agin
After working with Cisco's engineering team we have restored the dial in feature in Webex Meetings. This was restored around 10am this morning and all our testing appears positive. If you...
August 5, 2020
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4:06 PM
DoIT is working with Cisco on the call-in function outage
DoIT has been made aware of a problem with the dial-in feature in Webex Meetings. The symptom is that when joining a meeting through the phone that users will receive an error of “You have dialed...
August 4, 2020
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12:44 PM
Ultra journals now included in course copy
The August Blackboard update introduces an enhanced text editor to the Ultra course announcement tool, allowing faculty to add and display more types of content, embed web links and media, and...
July 28, 2020
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11:43 AM