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User Course List to be Updated in Blackboard in Early August

Enhancements improve display & sorting of courses

An upcoming enhancement to the Course list page will provide term-specific subsections and a new filter to help users quickly organize and locate courses. This update will be applied to UMBC’s...

Posted: July 31, 2018, 11:48 AM

Feedback Recording Tool Now Available in Blackboard

Engage students with personalized audio or video feedback

A new feedback tool in Blackboard allows faculty to embed short audio or video messages to students about their submissions through the grade center. Students can then watch or listen to...

Posted: July 26, 2018, 11:45 AM

Second Blackboard Ultra Experience 2-Day Boot Camp Scheduled

Learn how to develop courses in the new Blackboard interface

Due to the popularity of our Blackboard Ultra Experience 2-Day Boot Camp scheduled for 8/15 & 8/16, now filled to capacity, we have scheduled a second Boot Camp for Tuesday, 8/21, and...

Posted: July 18, 2018, 10:47 AM

DoIT's Dustin Roddy Receives UMBC Athletics' Gritty Award

Limelight shines on behind-the-scenes producer

During its annual "Gritty Awards" last Wednesday, May 7, UMBC Athletics went "off script" and surprised DoIT's Dustin Roddy, by awarding him the 2017-18 Leon Upshur Memorial Award for "outstanding...

Posted: May 15, 2018, 9:57 AM

Using AI to Nudge Students to Study Groups and Tutoring

Spring StudyTree Pilot Continues in 2018-19

UMBC's Division of Information Technology (DoIT) partnered with the Learning Resource Center (LRC) and several faculty members during the Spring 2018 term to pilot an artificial intelligence (AI),...

Posted: May 11, 2018, 12:20 PM