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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Successful Peoplesoft Campus Solutions Migration to AWS

Thanks to all involved in DoIT and functional units!

Our PeopleSoft Campus Solutions environment was migrated to Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the cloud over the weekend of June 7th. This migration also involved moving the Peoplesoft Gateway services...

Posted: June 12, 2024, 12:29 PM

Why & How Getting Help is Changing @ UMBC

DoIT launched a new Help site, help.umbc.edu, the week after spring break. After sharing it with different stakeholders on campus and getting some feedback, we wanted to provide more context about...

Posted: April 24, 2024, 1:00 PM

Introducing a New help.umbc.edu Page

Take a look at this new self-service portal!

We're thrilled to unveil the brand new help.umbc.edu page, designed to assist our campus community better than ever before. Over the past several months, our team within DoIT has been diligently...

Posted: March 25, 2024, 10:34 AM

Additional Email Phishing Protections Added Ahead of Break

We have noticed a large uptick in phishing emails over the last few weeks, and this trend is being reflected nationally throughout higher education. It is also expected that these emails will...

Posted: December 21, 2023, 8:17 PM

Confluence Cloud Migration is Complete

The Confluence server (wiki.umbc.edu) has been successfully migrated to Confluence Cloud! You can get started by visiting the new cloud application here: wiki.umbc.edu. Confluence houses the UMBC...

Posted: December 12, 2023, 2:13 PM