AI Initiatives

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

For staff providing support, we encourage people to look at Administrative AI, as a starting point. Our goal is to save folks time and improve the quality of their work, thus increasing productivity. We highlight some tools that DoIT is providing for support.

Additionally, we have launched an AI-supported search bar called myUMBC Answers.  We are seeking partners to work with DoIT to expand myUMBC Answers. The key to your office leveraging myUMBC Answers is providing 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. An excellent resource in the College of Engineering is the UMBC 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 Mandatory Recorder Upgrade for Mac Users

Mac users required to upgrade recorder version

Panopto has announced that beginning July 19 at 4:00 AM EDT, Mac clients will be required to upgrade their recorder to version 14.0.  The next major Panopto for Windows and Remote Recorder...

Posted: May 2, 2024, 7:35 AM

Panopto Blackboard Integration Updates in December

Instructors are encouraged to copy courses after update

Panopto tool integrations in Blackboard will be updated in late December, as Blackboard support is ending for the current tool integrations. On December 21st, existing Panopto links in Original...

Posted: November 27, 2023, 9:05 AM

Panopto User Survey

Please complete 5 min. survey on lecture capture use

The Division of Information Technology (DoIT) is conducting a comprehensive examination of our institutionally-supported lecture capture platform, Panopto. This project involves analyzing current...

Posted: September 21, 2023, 3:43 PM

UMBC Archiving Unviewed Panopto Videos (06/01/23)

No content will be permanently deleted at this time

DoIT will be moving all Panopto videos to archive storage that have not been viewed during the past 18 months. This is regular maintenance in alignment with our service contract. If one wishes to...

Posted: May 25, 2023, 8:47 AM

Panopto Mac Users: Mandatory Recorder Upgrade (7/20/23)

Version 13.0 may require OS update

Panopto has informed us that there is an upcoming mandatory upgrade for Panopto for Mac. On July 20, 2023, Panopto will require Panopto for Mac clients to be upgraded to version 13.0.0. This...

Posted: May 17, 2023, 11:59 AM