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    <Title>Final Reminder - REX downtime tomorrow, Saturday, August 19,</Title>
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          <div>This is a reminder that REX will be down for maintenance tomorrow, Saturday, August 19th from 8am to 8pm.  During this time we will be upgrading the REX servers.  As part of this upgrade we will be renaming the servers.</div>
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          <div>What this means to you.</div>
          <div>If you have bookmarked links to reports, you will have to recreate or edit the bookmarks.  The report server's new url will be <a href="https://rexprd-ssrs3.rex.umbc.edu/Reports">https://rexprd-ssrs3.rex.umbc.edu/Reports</a>.</div>
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    <Summary>This is a reminder that REX will be down for maintenance tomorrow, Saturday, August 19th from 8am to 8pm.  During this time we will be upgrading the REX servers.  As part of this upgrade we will...</Summary>
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    <Title>CorrectIon: Reminder for Downtime on taki Tuesday August 22</Title>
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          <div>Sorry for confusion (taki downtime scheduled for Tuesday August 22).</div>
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          <div>See myUMBC Posting: <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453">https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453</a> for background.</div>
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          <div>System Administrators will be taking the taki cluster environment offline Tuesday August 22 from 0800-1700. This is to perform required operating system and software stack patching. We expect (and hope) that the downtime will not require the entire nine hour duration. I will send an update toward the end of our downtime window alerting users to normal operation or the unlikely extension of the downtime window. </div>
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          <div>As always, let us know if you have any questions or concerns by submitting a descriptive help request form found at the following link.</div>
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          <a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/">https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/</a> </div>
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          <div>Roy Prouty</div>
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    <Summary>Sorry for confusion (taki downtime scheduled for Tuesday August 22).     See myUMBC Posting: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453 for background.     System Administrators will be...</Summary>
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    <Title>Reminder: Downtime on taki Tuesday August 22</Title>
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          <div>EDIT: Sorry for confusion (taki downtime scheduled for Tuesday August 22)</div>
          <div><br></div>See myUMBC Posting: <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453">https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453</a> for background.<div><br></div>
          <div>System Administrators will be taking the taki cluster environment offline Tuesday August 22 from 0800-1700. This is to perform required operating system and software stack patching. We expect (and hope) that the downtime will not require the entire nine hour duration. I will send an update toward the end of our downtime window alerting users to normal operation or the unlikely extension of the downtime window. </div>
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          <div>As always, let us know if you have any questions or concerns by submitting a descriptive help request form found at the following link.</div>
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          <a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/">https://doit.umbc.edu/request-tracker-rt/doit-research-computing/</a> </div>
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          <div>Roy Prouty</div>
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    <Summary>EDIT: Sorry for confusion (taki downtime scheduled for Tuesday August 22)    See myUMBC Posting: https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/hpcf/posts/134453 for background.    System Administrators will be...</Summary>
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    <Title>Departmental shared drive downtime 8/19</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">As part of our continuing commitment to security the servers that provide the department network shared drives need to be taken down so the operating system can be upgraded and patched.<br><br>This Saturday, August 19th at 9:00pm, these servers will be taken off-line. This will impact connectivity to all network shared drives with letters I: through Z: with the exception of the P: (Peoplesoft) drive. Connectivity to the shared drives should be fully restored by 11:00pm that evening. While there is no action required for end users, people may want to reboot their machine Monday morning to ensure all the drive mappings reconnect properly.<br><br>Please let us know if you have any concerns or questions.<br><br>Vladimir Plotkin<br>Manager for Windows Infrastructure<br><br><br>
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  <Title>FA2023 Instructional Technology Update</Title>
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    <p><span>The UMBC Instructional Technology Update is provided by the </span><a href="http://umbc.edu/doit" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>Division of Information Technology</span></a><span> for students, faculty and staff. If you have questions or need help, please consult the </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/display/faq/Blackboard" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>Blackboard Help FAQs</span></a><span> or directly at </span><a href="http://www.umbc.edu/blackboard/help" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>www.umbc.edu/blackboard/help</span></a><span>.  You can also contact the </span><a href="http://doit.umbc.edu/tsc" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>Technology Support Center</span></a><span> at 410.455.3838 or </span><a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=1867859" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>submit an RT (Request Tracker) ticket</span></a><span> via the </span><a href="https://rt.umbc.edu/UMBC/RequestHelp.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>myUMBC Help Menu</span></a><span> or directly at </span><a href="http://my.umbc.edu/help" rel="nofollow external" class="bo"><span>my.umbc.edu/help</span></a><span>.</span></p>
    <br><p><span><strong>HEADLINES</strong></span></p>
    <p><strong>What's New</strong></p>
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    <li>Reminder: <a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/130227/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC to Complete Bb Ultra Migration by Start of SP2025</a><ul>
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    <a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/133604/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">More Departments Move to Fully Adopt Ultra for Fall 2023</a> </li>
    <li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/?tag=ultra-update" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Learn about Ultra updates</a></li>
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    <a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/134605/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Ultra Courses to Offer New AI Course Design Assistant Tools</a><ul><li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/132857/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">7 ChatGPT Strategies to Enhance Course Designs</a></li></ul>
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    <li>Tool updates:<ul>
    <li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/133539/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard Tool Integration Upgrades</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/133569/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Panopto Mac Users: Mandatory Recorder Upgrade</a></li>
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    <li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/134069/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Accessing a Blackboard course to fulfill an incomplete</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/134515/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Quality Matters offers free Accessibility &amp; Usability Resource Site</a></li>
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    <p><strong>Training &amp; Professional Development</strong> (<a href="https://pivot.umbc.edu/training/recording-archives/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">recording archive</a> | <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">view upcoming events</a>)</p>
    <ul>
    <li>
    <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events?mode=upcoming&amp;tag=whats-new" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">What's New in Ultra for Teaching &amp; Learning FA2023</a>(8.18)</li>
    <li>
    <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events?mode=upcoming&amp;tag=new-faculty" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">New Faculty Orientation to Blackboard</a> (8.17)</li>
    <li>
    <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events/118629" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">5 Things You Can Do with Bb Ally for Accessibility</a> (8.21)</li>
    <li>
    <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events/118715" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Gradebook Hacks: 5 Tips to Prep for the Semester</a>(8.22)</li>
    <li>
    <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events?mode=upcoming&amp;tag=ai-course-design-assistant" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Preview Exclusive AI Course Design Tools for Ultra Courses</a> (8.23)</li>
    <li>
    <a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/132978/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Get Ultra-Ready: Access comprehensive training &amp; support</a> </li>
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    <p><strong>In Case You Missed It: Recordings &amp; Tips</strong></p>
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    <li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/133873/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Recordings Posted: M.O.S.T. OER Creation Showcase</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/events/past/?tag=analytics" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Recordings from the SP2023 Data Science &amp; Learning Analytics Series</a></li>
    <li>Course Prep Checklists<ul>
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    <a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/post/115516/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Tips to Wrap Up Your Blackboard Course for the Semester</a> </li>
    <li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/post/101114/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Effective Practices for Delivering Blackboard Tests</a></li>
    <li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/post/111595" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Tips to Get Your Blackboard Course Ready for Next Semester</a></li>
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    <p><strong>Other DoIT &amp; UMBC News</strong></p>
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    <li>
    <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/insights/posts/134649" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">New Interface for DUO Multi-Factor Authentication (8.15)</a><ul><li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/131372/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Reminder: All Students Required to Use Duo</a></li></ul>
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    <li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/134046/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Technology Support Center (TSC) Now Operating Remotely</a></li>
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    <a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/134412/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">FA2023 Blackboard courses created on July 25, 2023</a><ul><li>
    <a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/133812/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Reminder: AY19-20 Blackboard Courses Retired from Server</a> </li></ul>
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    <li><a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/news/post/133724/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC Archiving Unviewed Panopto Videos (06/01/23)</a></li>
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          <span>This is a reminder that REX will be down for maintenance on Saturday, August 19th from 8am to 8pm.  During this time we will be upgrading the REX servers.  As part of this upgrade we will be renaming the servers.</span><br><br><span>What this means to you.</span><br><span>If you have bookmarked links to reports, you will have to recreate or edit the bookmarks.  The report server's new url will be </span><a href="https://rexprd-ssrs3.rex.umbc.edu/Reports" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://rexprd-ssrs3.rex.umbc.edu/Reports</a><span>.</span><br><span>If you have a direct connection to the database server the new server name will be </span><a href="http://rexprd-db3.rex.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">rexprd-db3.rex.umbc.edu</a><span>.</span><br><br><span>As soon as the upgrade is complete we will notify you.</span>
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    <Title>Quarterly patching downtime - 8/18 &amp; 8/19</Title>
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          patched without any service disruption, there are some systems which 
          require the downtime of key services.  The schedule below outlines which
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          <p><span>Friday, 08/18/2023 between 5pm and 10pm (most systems will only be down for a short period during this time): <br></span></p>
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          <li><span>Access to Cyrus (legacy) email (accounts not migrated to UMBC Gmail)</span></li>
          <ul><li><span>All mail will be queued up and delivered after the server is patched</span></li></ul>
          <li>All HFS (afs) servers - gl.umbc.edu home directories will be offline</li>
          <li><span><strong>Between 9:00pm and 10pm only: </strong>Certain software licenses will be unavailable (autodesk, cadence, idl, schrodinger, xilinx, mathematica). </span></li>
          <li><span><strong>Between 9:00pm and 10pm only: </strong>The
           web hosting environments (virthost) will be partially unavailable 
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          <li><span><span><span><strong>Between 5:00pm and 6:30pm only: </strong></span>LDAP-Master and Webadmin will
           be taken down for system maintenance.  During this time account 
          creations and password changes will be unavailable.  Account 
          authentication and logins will not be affected.</span></span></li>
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          <div>Saturday, 08/19/2023 between 8am and 9am <span>(most systems will only be down for a short period during this time): </span>
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          <li><span><span>Wiki will be unavailable</span></span></li>
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          <p><span>Please let us know if you have any concerns or questions.</span></p>
          <p><span>Thanks!</span></p>
          <p><span>Tim Champ</span></p>
          <span>Asst. Director of Research and Enterprise Computing</span>
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    <p>Instructional Technology invites faculty to preview the suite of new AI Course Design Assistant features <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events?mode=upcoming&amp;tag=ai-course-design-assistant" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">during two webinars on Wednesday, August 23</a>. Developed to assist faculty in streamlining course preparation, the AI Course Design Assistant tools include:</p>
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    <strong>A course-builder assistant</strong>. Create sample learning modules, titles, and descriptions. </li>
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    <strong>Image suggestion and creation.</strong> The assistant can draw from the Unsplash stock image library and suggest thumbnails for illustration in learning modules or identify an image for the course banner. Functionality also includes AI-generated image creation based on course name and keywords.</li>
    <li>
    <strong>Content-based test generation</strong>. AI-powered algorithms analyze an Ultra document's content or inputted learning objectives and quickly generate a diverse set of questions for a test or question bank. </li>
    <li>
    <strong>Rubric creation.</strong> Drawing on an assessment or discussion prompt’s content, the AI can analyze and streamline the rubric creation process according to specific learning objectives and assessment criteria.</li>
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    <p>Informed by <a href="https://www.anthology.com/trust-center/trustworthy-ai-approach" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Anthology’s Trustworthy AI Approach</a> and seamlessly embedded into Ultra’s workflows, the AI Course Design Assistant tools are opt-in and the instructor is always in control of the content generated. Faculty can choose when, where, and how to leverage the tools in their Ultra courses.</p>
    <p>Instructional Technology expects to launch the tools to the campus during <a href="https://usdla.org/2023-ndlw/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">National Distance Learning Week</a> (Nov. 6-10) with a lunchtime series. Limited early access will be available to interested faculty upon request. Please <a href="https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology/events?mode=upcoming&amp;tag=ai-course-design-assistant" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">attend a preview session</a> for more information.</p>
    <div><strong>Connect with Instructional Technology</strong></div>
    <div>As always, if you have any questions about teaching, learning, and technology at UMBC, please consider the following options:</div>
    <ul>
    <li>
    <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/faq" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Check our extensive FAQ collection</a> </li>
    <ul>
    <li>
    <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/LohnB" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">What's new in Ultra?</a> | <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/bwrSAQ" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Known Issues</a> </li>
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    <li><a href="http://my.umbc.edu/go/request-help" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Open a ticket via RT</a></li>
    <li>Follow the <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/instructional-technology" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Instructional Technology</a> &amp; <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">DoIT</a> myUMBC groups</li>
    <li>
    <a href="http://doit.umbc.edu/itnm/staff/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Request a consult</a> with <a href="http://doit.umbc.edu/itnm/staff" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">instructional technology staff</a>
    </li>
    <li>
    <a href="http://pivot.umbc.edu/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">PIVOT</a> | <a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/itnm/academic-continuity/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Academic Continuity</a> | <a href="https://fdc.umbc.edu/teaching/keep-on-teaching/" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Keep On Teaching</a> | <a href="https://doit.umbc.edu/students" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Student Technology Resources</a>
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    <p><em>UMBC is committed to providing a consistent learning experience for everyone. The last day we will support Blackboard Original is December 31, 2024. Please check out our training and support: <a href="https://umbc.edu/go/ultra" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">https://umbc.edu/go/ultra</a>.</em></p>
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