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Do not see your class roster in your Blackboard shell?  Did you make it available to your students? In order to have your class roster auto-populated to your Blackboard course shell, you will need to make it available. Click here to follow the instructions. Once made available, it will take 12-24 hrs for the course […]

This is a reminder from The US:IT Blackboard Support Team that the Blackboard Upgrade will be taking place on Monday, August 20, at 7:30 pm. The upgrade process will run through the night, into the morning of August 21st. Full service should be restored by 10 am on Tuesday. During the upgrade, Blackboard will be inaccessible by students, faculty, and staff. Notification will be sent out […]

This is to inform you that UMS IT will be officially launching the new Zoom web conferencing service tomorrow, Wednesday, August 8. This service provides professional quality web conferencing across Mac, PC and mobile devices. As an addition, it is possible to dial into Zoom meetings from Polycom-equipped meeting rooms. Starting August 8, you will find […]

Registration now open for 2018 New Faculty Orientation!

Read the Umaine News article:  https://umaine.edu/news/blog/2018/07/23/pelletreau-included-national-geographic-article-photosynthetic-sea-slugs/   Read the National Geographic article: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/07/solar-powered-photosynthetic-sea-slugs-in-decline-news/   Here is the article that sparked the interest: https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article-abstract/35/7/1706/4962174

Blackboard Upgrade Notification by The US:IT Blackboard Support Team: The Blackboard upgrade previously scheduled for July 19th has been rescheduled for Monday, August 20th, at 7:30pm. The upgrade process will run through the night, into the morning of August 21st. Full service should be restored by 10am on Tuesday. During the upgrade, Blackboard will be inaccessible […]

Notification from Blackboard: Date: Friday, June 29th, 2018 Time: 12:00 am to 06:00 am Local DataCenter Time Work Type: Datacenter Maintenance Services: Clients with Production server(s) in our Northern Virginia Datacenter On Friday, June 29th, 2018 between the hours of 12:00 am to 06:00 am Local DataCenter Time, the Managed Hosting Engineers will perform Kernel […]

Announcement from Blackboard admin: Subject: Datacenter Maintenance – Service Interruption Date: Friday, June 1, 2018 Time: 11:00pm – 07:00am EDT Services: Clients with Server(s) in VA3 Please take note that Blackboard will be performing service impacting maintenance starting Friday, June 1 starting at 11 PM EDT, Service interruption is expected during this maintenance window.

The first is that an RFP process to identify a full-featured web-conferencing platform to support communication, teaching, and learning was recently completed. The RFP resulted in the selection of  Zoom as the tool best positioned to support current and future UMS needs. The plan is to complete the initial implementation of Zoom no later than […]