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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And the Winners Are...

Workshop Topics for February

You voted and there was a tie for workshop topics offered this month.   The winners are:  1. Grading and the Blackboard Grade Center  2. Quality Matters (QM) in Course Design This month...

Posted: February 2, 2016, 3:20 PM

Vote for the Workshop Held in February!

Please select up to THREE topics you would like to see covered in our February workshop.  The choices are:  1. Assessing Your Learners in Blackboard  2. Blackboard Collaborate 3....

Posted: January 28, 2016, 6:29 AM

Faculty Can Select Instructional Technology Workshop Topics

Vote for your preferred training workshop

Looking to have more say on topics selected for training each month? Starting SP2016, faculty will determine which topic will be featured each month in our monthly workshop series. The first...

Posted: January 27, 2016, 8:41 AM

Online Learning Consortium Offers Free Faculty Training

Learn best practices from experts & spark new ideas!

Through a University System of Maryland partnership with the Online Learning Consortium (OLC), DoIT is pleased to offer an exceptional online training opportunity to UMBC full-time and part-time...

Posted: October 20, 2015, 9:09 AM

Instructional Technology Training Scheduled for Fall

Workshops planned for Blackboard, Box, and more

As we look forward to beginning a new academic year, the Instructional Technology team has scheduled several useful workshops to support faculty and staff: August  19- Reusing & Recycling...

Posted: July 30, 2015, 12:47 PM