AI Initiatives

The DoIT AI site is here to help the community with information on using artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative AI (GenAI), to support UMBC’s Administrative, Instructional, and Research efforts. This site is designed to support employees looking to advance their use of GenAI. We recommend that our UMBC community start by visiting GenAI Tools, this page will highlight what free resources are available to use and what options exist to safely use GenAI while safeguarding UMBC institutional data.

For staff providing support, we encourage people to look at Administrative AI, as a starting point. Our goal is to save people time and hopefully improve the quality of their work, thus increasing productivity. We highlight some tools that DoIT is providing for support and we are seeking partners to work with DoIT on expanding myUMBC Answers. The real key to your office leveraging myUMBC Answers is to be able to provide validated and accurate content, such as FAQs or a handbook produced annually.

For faculty, we encourage you to also explore instructional AI and research AI. A wonderful resource in the College of Engineering Center for AI.  You can follow news about the UMBC Center for AI on social media through its sites on LinkedIn, Bluesky, X, and Facebook.Members of the UMBC community can subscribe to the UMBC AI Group to receive email about AI-related news and events.  If you have news to share with the UMBC AI community or suggestions or comments on the site, please send them to umbc-ai@cs.umbc.edu.

 

AI News

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Panopto Cloud Scheduled Downtime

Site Maintenance December 15, 7:00-11:00 PM

On December 15, Panopto Cloud customers will be upgraded to Panopto 6.0. This upgrade will require downtime: Site maintenance will begin at 7:00pm EST We expect up to 4 hours of downtime...

Posted: November 30, 2018, 11:15 AM

Blackboard Downtime Scheduled Sun. Morning, Aug 21st, 1-5 AM

Essential system updates & routine maintenance expected

Blackboard engineers will perform essential system updates and routine maintenance on Sunday morning, August 21, 2016, from 1 AM - 5 AM. Blackboard will be offline during this period.  In...

Posted: August 8, 2016, 2:50 PM

Blackboard Upgrade Scheduled Dec. 24, 12:30 AM - 12:30 PM

System-wide update planned

Blackboard engineers will perform a system upgrade and maintenance on Thursday morning, December 24, 2015 from 12:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Blackboard will be offline during this period. As previously...

Posted: November 24, 2015, 8:39 AM

Blackboard Downtime Scheduled Sat. Morning, Oct 3rd, 2-5 AM

Essential system updates & routine maintenance expected

Blackboard engineers will perform essential system updates and routine maintenance on Saturday morning, October 3, 2015 from 2 AM - 5 AM. Blackboard will be offline during this period.  This...

Posted: September 21, 2015, 11:30 AM

New Bb Upgrade Planned for WT2016

Benefits include improved Java-free Collaborate

To continue our managed hosting from Blackboard and access new functionality, UMBC’s Blackboard server will need to be upgraded in late December after the fall semester ends. Apart from ensuring...

Posted: August 25, 2015, 12:29 PM