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Blackboard is a Web-based course-management system designed to allow students and faculty to participate in classes delivered online or use online materials and activities to complement face-to-face teaching. Blackboard enables instructors to provide students with course materials, discussion boards, virtual chat, online quizzes, an academic resource center, and more. The degree to which Blackboard is used in a course varies. For example, instructors may supplement an on-campus class by putting their syllabus and handouts on their course sites. In contrast, other courses may be conducted entirely through Blackboard, without any on-campus sessions. If you’re enrolled in a course that uses Blackboard, be sure to find out how Blackboard will be used in that course.
DoIT provides incoming and outgoing gateways for the passage of email to and from the University. Incoming gateways deliver to DoIT supported mail servers, from which users read their email, and also deliver to some departmental systems which support their own users. The gateways perform virus checking and spam email assessment. High spam scores are used to discard messages before delivery to user inbox servers; intermediate scores can be used to tag them for filtering according to user selected rules.
There are two systems for handling email at the University which are managed by DoIT. The new one is G-mail or Google email which is used for all new accounts that have their mail delivered to DoIT managed systems and a legacy Unix (Cyrus) service which is used for a all accounts prior to August, 2010.
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Cyrus (Legacy system)
It manages access and storage of mail messages according to accepted internet standards, allowing users to access their mail with almost any standards-compliant mail program including Webmail, Pine, Outlook, Thunderbird, or Apple Mail.
G-mail (started August, 2010)
Google Apps is a package of online applications that makes communicating and collaborating at UMBC easier and more efficient. The cornerstone of Google Apps is Gmail, Google’s web-based email program, which integrates with Google Docs, for creating and sharing documents, and Google Calendar, for coordinating schedules. All of these services are hosted online, so email, documents, and calendars are always accessible from any computer, anywhere.
The Google contract was signed by the attorney general’s office in July 2010 under the Maryland Education Enterprise Consortium (MEEC) umbrella. UMBC was the first USM school to sign the new contract thus allowing UMBC to offer the Google collaborative tools to the UMBC community.
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Portal
myUMBC is a personalized student web portal that your student will create and customize to their specific interests. Your student will need to create a myUMBC portal account not only to register to visit campus and apply, but also to take care of their business throughout the admission process. myUMBC will add your student to our mailing list and deliver personalized academic information; it’s the only place to register for campus visit events, and track their admissions status throughout the process.
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