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Four Biology Faculty Give 1st Exam In-class AND Online

WiFi & student laptops turn UC into a "testing center"

Before the Spring 22 semester started, four Biological Sciences professors -- David Eisenmann, Hua Lu, Jeffrey Leips, and Kevin Omland -- reached out to DoIT to see if they could (and should) try...

Posted: March 3, 2022, 4:16 PM

Bb Course Exports to Automatically Expire After 30 Days

Faculty can download course exports for archival needs

Course exports and archives are created when an instructor wishes to download a copy of their course. A course export contains all of the instructional materials, images and files, as well as the...

Posted: February 28, 2022, 8:33 AM

5 Faculty Earn QM Certification for Course Design

More than half of USM's QM certified courses are from UMBC

After participating in rigorous peer reviews of their online and hybrid courses, five UMBC faculty have earned Quality Matters certification as part of the campus’ Quality Matters Impact (QMI)...

Posted: February 14, 2022, 9:39 AM

Panopto: Recording, Hosting, and Engaging

Leveraging Screencasting to Support Instructional Strategies

UMBC adopted Panopto in fall 2018. Use has increased since this time, in particular spurred on by geometrically increased adoption with the migration to fully online and then hybrid learning in...

Posted: February 8, 2022, 9:40 AM

SP22 Data Science & Learning Analytics Workshops Schedule

Noon series will feature plenty of show & tell demos

For the Spring 22 semester, DoIT's Analytics & Instructional Technology groups will continue to offer student success and learning analytics-related workshops for the UMBC community.  All...

Posted: January 31, 2022, 2:33 PM