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May 27, 2025

Create, Style, and Scale Your ELMS Course content: Learn to Use DesignPLUS and Templates (Level-Up With ELMS-Canvas Series)

Take your course to the next level with DesignPLUS! Join this webinar to learn how DesignPLUS, an ELMS-Canvas plug-in, can help you build and design high-quality courses to enhance engagement and accessibility.

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May 30, 2025

Maximize Student Engagement: Tools for Every Interaction in ELMS-Canvas (Getting Started With ELMS-Canvas Series)

Join us for this webinar and learn how to engage your students in ELMS-Canvas. Tools and features we will cover in this session are: New Quizzes, Discussions Redesign, Panopto, and Lucid.This session was previously titled "Engage with ELMS-Canvas."

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May 29, 2025

Take Control of Your Grades: Mastering the ELMS-Canvas Gradebook (Getting Started With ELMS-Canvas Series)

Join us for this webinar and learn about the ELMS-Canvas Gradebook and everything that goes into the management and creation of your course.This session was previously titled "Efficient Grading and Gradebook Best Practices in ELMS."

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May 28, 2025

Master the Basics: Essential Skills for a Smooth Course Launch (Getting Started With ELMS-Canvas Series)

This webinar covers all of the essentials for preparing and publishing your ELMS-Canvas course space. We will demonstrate the basics of using ELMS-Canvas, including how to upload files, manage notifications, create announcements, and manage your course menu.

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May 27, 2025

Organize, Merge, and Manage Your Courses: Your Guide to EMT (Getting Started With ELMS-Canvas Series)

Do you teach multiple sections and need to split and combine your ELMS-Canvas course space? Join us for this webinar and learn about the ELMS Management Tool (EMT). We will demonstrate the different tools you can use in EMT.

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AI "Hallucinations"

ChatGPT has become a largely used AI platform over the last few years, with an estimated 400 million weekly users. ChatGPT works by taking user input, turning each word into a “token” (words or parts of words), and generates a response that seems to be accurate to the context of the user's input.

Finals Week, Memorial Day, and Summer Hours 2025

Some DIT services will have shorter hours leading to finals and through the summer. DIT offices will be closed May 26 for Memorial Day.

May 6, 2025

UMD and AWS Research Day

UMD researchers, research support staff, and IT pros are invited to AWS Research Day! On Tuesday, May 6, Amazon Web Services team members and UMD researchers will discuss the roles AWS offerings can take in accelerating UMD research projects. Lunch will be provided. Registration is required.

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Permission to break everything

Cybercriminals have taken a classic security feature, CAPTCHAs, and turned it into a clever trap. The ClickFix attack tricks users into proving that they are “not a robot” by following keyboard commands that secretly download malware onto their devices. This particular scam usually starts with a website popup that looks something like this:

Home may be your safe space, but is it a secure space?

Technology continues to advance, and humans continue to find ways to make technology do more work for them. Automation can be used to enhance efficiency, save time, and decrease effort. Implementing automation in your home is growing in popularity since it may increase comfort in our homes, decrease effort in keeping up with them, and become more efficient so we have more time to do things we enjoy. In my home, I have an automated vacuum (that also can mop) and an automatic litter box.

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