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, BlueskyX, 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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Known Issue: Potential Delay in Processing of Safe...

Full Title: Known Issue: Potential Delay in Processing of Safe Assign PapersBlackboard Support reported today that the Safe Assign servers experienced an outage at the beginning of this week. The...

Posted: November 18, 2011, 1:50 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Wednesday,...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Wednesday, Nov. 9 - 12 am Thursday, Nov. 10The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for two hours of maintenance from 10 pm Wednesday, Nov. 9...

Posted: November 7, 2011, 12:53 PM

Known Issue: Students Can't Access Bb Course Files

DoIT is tracking a problem that has emerged in a dozen Fall 2011 Blackboard courses in which students see the following error: Workaround Actually, the files DO exist in the course, but...

Posted: September 7, 2011, 8:53 AM

Known Issue: Blackboard Supported Browsers

DoIT staff have received a number of reports from faculty and students regarding incompatibilities between Blackboard and some of the newer versions of web browsers. Examples include the...

Posted: August 23, 2011, 8:28 PM

Known Issue: Bb Course Auto Enrollment (RESOLVED)

The auto enrollment script that takes students who are officially enrolled in SA and places them into the corresponding Blackboard course shell stopped working on Monday, June 6. It was restarted...

Posted: June 9, 2011, 12:21 PM