ELMS (powered by Blackboard) will be unavailable from Monday, December 22, 2008 at 11:59 p.m. through Tuesday,  December 23, 2008 at 7:00 a.m. while the off-site Blackboard engineers perform necessary maintenance and upgrades to the system. During this outage the grade submission tool in ELMS will also be unavailable.

We apologize for any inconvenience that this outage will cause. If you have any questions or concerns about the outage, please contact us at elms@umd.edu.

- ELMS Support Staff

The Office of Information Technology Completed RFP Process to Acquire Service

COLLEGE PARK, MD (July 11, 2006) – The University of Maryland, in partnership with Blackboard Inc. (NASDAQ: BBBB) will launch the university’s first single, campus-wide family of integrated applications for teaching, learning, community-building, and knowledge sharing. Release 7.1 of the Blackboard Academic Suite™ will be Maryland’s new enterprise learning management system (ELMS) and will be deployed during the fall 2006 semester. When ELMS is launched, users will be able to take their research, projects, and class work to another level of sophistication with one standardized, easy-to-use system in addition to a large content repository. Read the rest of this entry »