Network and Infrastructure
Academic Technology
Classroom Support
DIT Service Desk
Potpourri
100

This building was the first building in which wireless internet was made available on campus.

What is McKeldin Library? 

100

The percentage of published courses in ELMS-Canvas during the Spring 2023 semester.

What is 86.4%?

100

The number of classrooms that our classroom technology team supports.

What is 331?

100

The number of incidents that the DIT Service Desk responded to during the Spring 2023 semester.

What is 20, 919?

100

Of faculty, staff, undergraduates, or graduate students, this group hosts the most number of Zoom meetings.

What is faculty (but staff is a close second!)?

200

The year in which wireless internet first made available on campus.

What is 1998?

200

The total number of years of Panopto videos that were watched during the Spring 2023 semester.

What is 21 years (or 180,000 hours!)?

200

The total number of incidents responded to by the classroom technology support team between January 2023 to May 2023.

What is 1,432 total incidents

200

The most common issue addressed by the IT Service Desk.

What is Manage Passphrase?

200

The majority of Zoom meetings in Spring 2023 had this many participants.

What is two?

300

Which is greater? The average hourly download speed or the average hourly upload speed (in gigabits per second)?

What is the average hourly download speed (13.8 gigabits per second vs. 4.0 gigabits per second)?

300

The percentage of students who log-in to ELMS-Canvas on a typical day.

What is 72.%?

300

The average time it takes the classroom support team to respond to a Need-Help-Now incident.

What is ~5 minutes?

300

Of the student, faculty, and staff categories, the group that tends to place the largest proportion of calls.

What are students?

300

These countries have the most views on the DIT website outside of the United States. 

What are India, the UK, China, and Germany?

400

A network that provides an encrypted and secure connection path from a user's machine to its destination through the public internet is called this.

What is a Virtual Private Network?

400

The file type most commonly requested to be converted into an accessible format.

What is a PDF?

400

The month in which the highest percentage of Need-Help-Now incidents occur.

What is February?

400

The part of the semester that saw an increase in weekend DIT Service Desk help requests (beginning, middle, or end).

What is the end?

400

The number of Knowledge Base (or Support) articles created and/or revised during the Spring 2023 semester.

What is 553?

500

The number of Virtual Private Network sessions hosted on a typical day.

What is 3,000?

500

The days of the week in which students log-in to ELMS-Canvas most.

What are Monday and Tuesday mornings?

500

The number of AV system upgrades and feature enhancements completed by the classroom support team during Winter Break of 2022 and the Spring 2023 semester.

What is 81?

500

The number of weekend requests that the DIT Service Desk assisted with during the Spring 2023 semester.

What is 1,463?

500
The number of times the UMD app was opened on a typical day.

What is 589?

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