Information Technology

​Kaltura is a cloud-based video management system that can be used for storing, publishing, and streaming videos, video collections, and other types of media. The system works with Blackboard and accounts are now available to University of Maine System students, faculty, and staff. Over the past two years, the University of Maine System has worked […]

Zoom is a web conferencing tool available to all University of Maine System students, faculty, and staff. Zoom provides high-quality audio and video, intuitive sharing and co-annotation tools, breakout rooms, white-boarding tools, the ability to easily add content to a meeting on the fly, and the option to download meeting recordings as MP4 files. Zoom […]

This summer’s Paint & Polish and Classrooms for the Future project completed renovations in classrooms across the UMaine Campus. The renovations consist of facilities work, classroom technology installations and upgrades, and network infrastructure (wireless) upgrades. The following groups participated in this effort:  Provost’s Office, Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL), UMaine Campus IT […]

Phishing emails continue to plague our University community by attempting to deceive individuals. The most popular version tries to get you to divulge your password with such ruses as “Unable to display this email,” and “Click here to view this message,” or “Log in for the secure email,” or notices that your account requires urgent […]

The project to retire FirstClass in May 2018 continues to progress and is on schedule. The Center for Innovation in Teaching and Learning (CITL) and members of the FirstClass retirement project team are meeting with faculty, departments, and organizations to assist them with the transition to alternative solutions for FirstClass conferences and to migrate FirstClass email to Gmail. […]

The new UMaine MyCampus Portal “Announcements & Alerts” and “All Community Boards” that replace FirstClass announcement and community boards are open for business! Links to the new Portal boards are located just above the right column on the Portal homepage: You can access the list of all currently active portal community boards via the “Other […]

The new UMaine Portal announcement and community bulletin boards that replace FirstClass Conference boards will be open for business on December 1! The FirstClass bulletin conferences will remain active until the end of this calendar year. After that, you will be able to view messages in the conferences but will not be able to post new […]

What is it? PrintFromAnywhere provides convenient and easy printing options for the UMaine campus community. Using a Website, Email or standard print client you can send print jobs to an IT PrintFromAnywhere Release Station. Then, stop at any IT PrintFromAnywhere Release Station, swipe your MaineCard, select and print your item. How do I use it? […]