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Learn AI Skills. Connect with Employers. Lunch Is on Us!

Finish Your Google AI Professional Certificate Today

Whether you're exploring career options, preparing for your next internship, or bringing new AI skills to your current profession, this is an opportunity to celebrate your learning and build...

Posted: October 19, 2026, 9:15 AM

Illustration blending UMBC’s black-and-gold branding with Google’s colorful icons. A Google-logo laptop is surrounded by learning icons, a certificate, graduation cap, books, campus buildings, and a paw print, symbolizing career-focused learning and professional development through Google Career Certificates at UMBC.

Export Rubrics from Dedicated Hub in Blackboard's October Update

Keep AI conversations in the target language

Down the hall, a colleague teaching another section of the same course asks to borrow the rubric you spent a weekend refining. How do you easily share this rubric in a Blackboard format? Later in...

Posted: October 15, 2026, 3:30 PM

A megaphone and newspaper announce the Blackboard logo.

Add Alt Text to Images Inside Your PDFs Using Ally’s Latest Update

Describe PDF images without leaving Blackboard

A student using a screen reader opens your lecture notes and reaches the diagram that ties the week together. The screen reader says one word: “diagram.jpg.” Until now, fixing that meant finding...

Posted: October 15, 2026, 10:00 AM

A human figure with outstretched arms inside a circle of two curved arrows, suggesting movement. Below the figure are two words: digital accessibility.

chip and RRStor Downtime Scheduled for October 27th

To all chip users, On Tuesday October 27th, the chip cluster will be inaccessible from 0800ET - 1800ET. This maintenance window will be for upgrading our core server infrastructure to improve...

Posted: October 14, 2026, 10:11 AM