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Three Faculty Named 2025-26 UMBC LA Fellows

$2k professional awards renewable annually

Once again, the Provost's Office has provided funding through the Learning Analytics Fellowship program to faculty and staff for the 2025-26 academic year. Details of the new fellows’ proposals...

Posted: September 15, 2025, 7:30 PM

2025-26 UMBC Learning Analytics Fellows Sarah Bass, Neha Raikar, and Liang Zhu

Ally’s New PDF “Quick Fixes” Empower Faculty in Minutes

Fix titles, language, OCR issues, right inside Blackboard

Imagine encountering a PDF flagged in Ally for having no embedded title, missing language metadata, or being a scanned-only image. Ally’s latest update brings a trio of PDF "quick fixes" that turn...

Posted: September 9, 2025, 3:28 PM

A human figure with outstretched arms inside a circle of two curved arrows, suggesting movement. Below the figure are two words: digital accessibility.

Winter Faculty Bootcamp: Microcredential Mapping

Empower learners by connecting outcomes and skills

UMBC continues to lead nationally in digital credentialing, granting over 3,500 microcredentials annually to more than 1,500 learners. These microcredentials allow students to demonstrate mastery...

Posted: September 8, 2025, 10:12 AM

Logo for Microcredential Mapping. A yellow hexagon with three stacked black layers inside sits to the left of the bold text ‘Microcredential Mapping.’