Get answers to common questions about UMGC's online classroom.
Below are two groups of questions asked most often about Learning Experience Online, the online classroom at University of Maryland Global Campus.
The first group is general questions about LEO. The second group covers using LEO. Answers in the second group are linked to the Knowledge Base at Help@UMGC.
Visit Get Help with Learning Experience Online for further assistance with LEO.
General Questions
Learning Experience Online is the new online classroom at University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC). LEO is replacing WebTycho, our previous learning system.
Please visit Get Help with Learning Experience Online. Our help page contains comprehensive support information.
Please visit Get Help with Learning Experience Online. Our help page contains comprehensive support information.
An interactive calendar makes it easy to track assignments, deadlines, and course events. You'll know exactly where you stand in a class with an enhanced progress tool, and audio messaging and other features enable you to easily receive feedback from your instructor and classmates.
Yes, you can access Learning Experience Online, the new online classroom at UMGC, on your smartphone and tablet.
We don't yet have a UMGC mobile application. For now, you can use the web browser on your mobile device to access Learning Experience Online, the new online classroom at UMGC. As soon as our application becomes available, we'll let you know.
The default setting for your calendar is to show events and activities for all of the classes you are taking in the new system. You can filter for a particular class by clicking into a detailed calendar view and selecting it from a drop-down menu.
Please ensure that your web browser has JavaScript and cookies enabled. LEO requires both.
As with any system, there may be outages. We'll notify you several weeks in advance of any scheduled system outage or maintenance to LEO. We'll also notify you if there's an unplanned system outage. In either case, notifications will be posted on MyUMGC. LEO also has an alerts feature. We'll post notifications there, too.
Using LEO
You can upload files up to a maximum of 1GB in LEO.
Note: If you submit large assignment files (ex. Several GB's) on a slow internet connection, you may encounter a browser timeout issue due to the large file size. This is not related to size limits imposed by LEO.