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July 23, 2009
Blackboard Down for Maintenance on 7/24
Blackboard will be down for scheduled maintenance on Friday, July 24th from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday. At this time, we will be installing Blackboard Sync on the production application servers to allow for the iPhone app to work.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
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July 13, 2009
UMBC Releases Blackboard Reporting Code at BbWorld09
During a pre-conference workshop at the Blackboard World 09 annual users conference, UMBC announced the release of its code for the "UMBC Most Active Blackboard Courses" reports.
While UMBC is not responsible for supporting any school's use of this software, we welcome any suggestions for improvement through comments to this DoIT news blog post.
FYI . . .
The UMBC code release site also contains a brief "code walk through" video created by Jeffrey Berman, a former graduate assistant in Information Systems, who is now a senior web application developer at Drexel University.
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July 8, 2009
Create Your Account Security Questions
DoIT has created a new process that will allow account holders to reset their own passwords. There are three security questions that need to be completed and a few other pieces of information such as an alternate (non-umbc) e-mail address. You can also include your cell phone number. This number will allow the University to send you an SMS (text) message when your password has been reset using the self-service password reset process. This is an added security feature to ensure that you actually authorized your password to be reset.
Create your security questions by visiting http://webadmin.umbc.edu
Go to:
- User Tab
- Account Settings
- Manage My Security Questions and Settings
In addition to the basic information the "Level of Trust" asserted to you will be listed as Bronze (Level 1), Silver(Level 2) or Gold (Level 3). The level of trust, also known as the level of assurance, is a relatively new indicator that is being used by the Federal Government to ensure that people accessing their systems have undergone a certain degree of identity proofing. Essentially the higher your level of trust the more the system must interrogate who you are. A simple example is that Bronze (Level 1) users can user the online automated password reset while the Silver (Level 2) and Gold (Level 3) users must interact with a human to have their password reset.
The majority of UMBC's account holders are Bronze (Level 1) while anyone having a Peoplesoft Finance account are considered Silver (Level 2). For more about levels of assurance please visit the NIST website.
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