UMBC To Discontinue Five Legacy Email Domains April 4 - Legacy Email Delivery Will Be Stopped UMBC will discontinue delivery of email sent to five legacy email domains beginning April 4, 2013. During the past two months there has been an increase in spam to the campus. Analysis of the mail logs has shown that much of this increase can be attributed to mail being sent to and from legacy email domains (see below) that are no longer used.

NOTE: Only the email domains below will be affected by this change. Email sent to username@umbc.edu and previously exempted email domains will remain unaffected.

Legacy Email Domains to Be Discontinued on April 4, 2013

In some situations these legacy email domains may have been published thus making continued delivery important to an individual. If you would like to continue delivery of one or more of these legacy email domains please submit a ticket requesting your email be exempted from the changes going into effect on April 4, 2013.

If you would like to request continued delivery to one or more of the five legacy email domains please submit an RT (Request Tracker) ticket via my.umbc.edu/help or contact UMBC’s Technology Support Center at 410.455.3838.

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Those services are:

It is important to note that anyone who has migrated their mail to Google will not experience any disruption during this upgrade.  All of the services listed above will be available for campus use until 10:30am on Wednesday March 20th and will be available again at 11am on Wednesday March 20th once the upgrade has been completed.  If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the Technology Support Center at x53838.  We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and wish everyone a good spring break.


TimeLine

Services Offline at 8:30am

Additional Services Offline at 10:30am

All services will be restored by 11am


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Tuesday, April 9, 2013
2:30-3:45pm, including Q&A
Rm. 401, Math/Psyc Building, UMBC

This talk illustrates capabilities in Mathematica 9 that are directly
applicable for use in teaching and research on campus. Topics include:

* Free-form linguistic input & predictive interface features
* 2D and 3D visualization
* Dynamic interactivity & On-demand scientific data
* Example-driven course materials
* Symbolic interface construction
* Statistics & Data anaylsis
* Digital Image Processing, Parallelization, and Control Systems
functionality

Our brand-new Wolfram|Alpha Pro website will be featured, as well. You will
see the following Wolfram|Alpha Pro capabilities:

* built-in CDF interactivity
* automatic creation of interactive models
* ability to upload data (spreadsheets, data, text) for instant and thorough
analysis
* step-by-step solution guide to many problems
* specialized keyboard for mathematical and scientific symbols
* export results to over 60 formats

Current users will benefit from seeing the many improvements and new
features of Mathematica 9...
http://www.wolfram.com/mathematica/new-in-9/
...as well as Wolfram|Alpha Pro...
http://www.wolframalpha.com/pro
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Important Note: Departmental webpages and main campus web pages will NOT be affected.  These will remain online.

Please contact the TSC at x53838 with questions or any issues you experience after the maintenance.
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How Do I Access Qualtrics?
Access it from any web browser at:  Qualtrics.umbc.edu

How Do I Get Help?

If you require further assistance please submit an RT (Request Tracker) ticketvia my.umbc.edu/help or contact UMBC’s Technology Support Center at410.455.3838.

Background
DoIT has been using Qualtrics for over a year. We use the tool for all of our surveys, most notably the survey attached to the bottom of each resolved RT ticket. This tool was used heavily during the 2012 UMBC campus wide retreat with great success. Recently several faculty from various CAHSS departments expressed an interest in accessing DoIT's pilot of Qualtrics as many of them pay for various online survey tools (e.g. Qualtrics, Surveymonkey, Zoomerang) annually at approximately $500 per faculty member. Unfortunately, DoIT’s license agreement does not allow us to add non-DoIT staff to our instance of Qualtrics.

DoIT  is sponsoring a one year pilot for all faculty, staff and students that are part of the CAHSS. We are hopeful the product and its use will produce a compelling business case for the College to continue funding beyond year 1. If there is no interest beyond year one we simply won't renew the contract.

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  1. As of 2/25 anyone needing to access the WT2013 Bb server from off campus needs to log in to the VPN first.
  2. The WT2013 Bb server will be taken completely offline on Friday, 3/15.
  3. WT2013 courses will be restored on the UMBC Bb production server by Friday, March 29.  Please note that there will be approximately two weeks when WT2013 courses will be completely unavailable to faculty and students.  We encourage you to download a copy of your grade center, and any other content that you might need to your local machine. If instructors have students finishing incomplete grades, and students must have continuing access to their WT2013 course over spring break, the instructors should put in an RT ticket request prior to Thursday, March 14.

Thank you for your patience during this transition.

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From:Jack Suess, Michael Dillon, Arnold Foelster
Date: February 26, 2013
Re:Update on Digital Measures Implementation


Digital Measures is a commercial software product that will replace the Faculty Annual Report (FAR) in Calendar year 2014. Based on input from the Deans, we have decided to try a pilot implementation in 2013. As part of this pilot, there are nine departments using Digital Measures in lieu of the current FAR. The nine departments are Information Systems, Geography and Environmental Systems, Gender and Women’s Studies, JCET, and the five departments in the College of Natural and Mathematical Sciences (CNMS).

This memo will outline the process for the pilot departments. ALL OTHER DEPARTMENTS WILL USE THE ORIGINAL myUMBC FAR.  The due date for both Digital Measures reports and the FAR will be April 10, 2013.

The main difference between Digital Measures and the FAR is that we are loading data regarding individuals into Digital Measures. As a result, we will load teaching data, grants data, and demographic information on file into the system. If you notice an error, you will be asked to let us know by submitting an RT ticket, so that we can track and correct the problem using the current system of record.

During the pilot implementation, faculty (as they have done in the FAR) will be expected to enter into Digital Measures their scholarly and creative accomplishments, service work, and other activities that are not tracked by our official systems.

For support, we hired FosterKnowledge consultants Susan Dawson, sdawson@umbc.edu and Marni Blachowitz, marnibl@umbc.edu. Susan developed training for the UMBC SA project.  Based on early feedback with some faculty that we have worked with, we believe most faculty will find this web-based package straightforward to use; however if any faculty member feels they need additional support we will be glad to provide assistance.

We will modify the start screen on the existing FAR so that faculty participating in the pilot implementation will be alerted to use the link specified for Digital Measures instead of the older FAR.

What follows is the timeline for the rollout this spring:

  1. Week of March 4  -- we will have the system available for faculty to sign in  and review basic demographic data. There will be some basic orientation videos available on how to sign in and interact with the software.
  1. Week of March 11 - we will have all  teaching data available.
  2. During the month of March we will have support available to answer any questions  and work with faculty one-on-one should they need help.
  3. In early May we will issue a survey to faculty asking for feedback and ways that we can improve the process for next year.

Let me close by thanking all of the pilot departments. Through your assistance and cooperation we can make the transition to a new instrument much better for all faculty. ]]> To:Digital Measures Pilot Departments and Deans From:Jack Suess, Michael Dillon, Arnold Foelster Date: February 26, 2013 Re:Update on Digital Measures Implementation Digital Measures is a... http://my.umbc.edu/go/academicprofile https://dev.my.umbc.edu/api/v0/pixel/news/24959/guest@my.umbc.edu/d06f541f641e69722c761d3eaa4ada65/api/pixel Division of Information Technology (DoIT) https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/original.JPG?1727453227 https://assets1-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets3-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xlarge.png?1727453227 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/large.png?1727453227 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/medium.png?1727453227 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/small.png?1727453227 https://assets2-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xsmall.png?1727453227 https://assets4-dev.my.umbc.edu/system/shared/avatars/groups/000/000/021/d27760c5de12c74b73faec8d0e631acf/xxsmall.png?1727453227 Division of Information Technology 0 0 true Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:44:44 -0500 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:48:20 -0500 Known Issue: Dropped Students Still Available in Bb Classes Some students not made unavailable after dropping class DoIT staff would like to report a known issue involving student availability in Bb courses.  Over the past several weeks DoIT has received reports from students who have officially dropped a course in Peoplesoft, but who still remain as available in the corresponding Bb class.  This has not affected all students who have dropped classes.  DoIT staff have been working with Blackboard in order to determine the cause of this issue, and believe that an internal Bb system process was hung, preventing some updates from Peoplesoft from being processed.  Restarting the Bb servers seems to have rectified the issue.  DoIT staff are continuing to monitor the situation, and are looking at ways to prevent this from happening in the future.

Bb Instructors are encouraged to compare their official course rosters in Peoplesoft, with the list of users enrolled in their Bb courses.  If they find students who have officially dropped the course but who are still listed in Bb, they can either change the student's availability to "unavailable", or they can remove them completely from the Bb course.  If students find they are still listed in a Bb course that they have officially dropped, they should submit an RT ticket and ask to be removed.
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Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing will be undergoing IP renumbering during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Saturday, March 2, 2013.  Please read KB article 2798

Begin Time: Saturday, March 2, 2013  10:00 PM (US Eastern / GMT-5)

End Time: Sunday, March 3, 2013 4:00 AM (US Eastern / GMT-5)

Duration: 6 hours

Affected Users: All Web Conferencing & Elluminate Live! Users

Details: During the upcoming maintenance, Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing and Elluminate Live! North American Hosted sessions and recordings will be intermittently unavailable.  System administrators should review KB article 2798 for important details regarding potential changes that may require a CMS restart and network updates.

Updates to this article can be found at: 
http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&task=knowledge&questionID=1857

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