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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Changes are coming to REX Guided Reports

On the evening of Wednesday, November 7th we will be upgrading REX Guided Reports.  This upgraded version will bring many enhancements and we wanted to touch upon a few of them here. Browser...

Posted: October 26, 2018, 9:35 AM

REX Tools for Teaching Available to Instructors

Get a Bird's Eye View of Your Course Across Campus

In recent years, the Office of Institutional Research and Decision Support  (IRADS) has installed or built a nifty set of “bird’s eye view” reports about teaching & learning in the campus’...

Posted: March 28, 2017, 2:09 PM

New and updated reports in REX

A new reportSchedule of Classes - Fees has been published that allows users to view Fees and Course Material Charges that have been assigned at the class attribute level. The report can be...

Posted: August 11, 2016, 10:06 AM

New reports about REX Activities

Two new reports have been created in REX to allow users to search REX usage and various activities executed by departments and users. Results are displayed...

Posted: September 15, 2015, 2:53 PM

Fall 2015 Begin Term Census data is now available in REX

IRADS has released the official data for Fall 2015.  It should now appear as a Term option in the Census Data reports in REX.  As a reminder, in REX official Day 10 numbers are labeled with a...

Posted: September 10, 2015, 12:22 PM