On March 20 between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m., several IT systems will be unavailable while DIT conducts a set of disaster recovery and service resiliency tests.

The Student IT Advisory Committee (ITAC) invites members of the UMD community, especially students, to submit proposals online before 5 p.m. on March 30.

The 27th Annual Innovations in Teaching and Learning Conference will be in person on May 11, 2022, in the Edward St. John Learning & Teaching Center. It is open to all UMD faculty, graduate and staff instructors.

Can apps and technology make your life easier? Learn about resources from the Division of IT and tech companies through hands-on activities and demonstrations (and get free Maryland Dairy ice cream!). Learn about:

Google Cloud Platform (GCP) is a suite of cloud computing services that runs on Google's infrastructure. It offers four main kinds of services: compute, storage, big data, and machine learning.

During the Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 semesters, the university is making some changes to the student email environment to ensure that the TERPmail and UMD Gmail systems are used for official communications to undergraduate and graduate students. These changes will prevent situations that have occurred in the past where university information was not delivered to some students who had their university email delivered to inactive non-university accounts.

All UMD faculty and staff, including research assistants and graduate assistants, are required to complete IT security awareness training before March 18, 2022.

The university has a new Data Privacy Policy (Policy X-15.00(A)), which was approved by the University Senate and signed by President Pines at the end of December. The policy sets out the principles by which UMD interacts with individuals' data and the expectations that individuals can have in how the university uses their data.

UMD is developing a new data privacy policy to establish clear principles and expectations related to the appropriate use of university community members’ data. Provide your input and have your questions answered!