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 Known Issue: 403 Error with Course Copy LTI Videos

Affected instructors should share direct links to videos

There is currently an issue with Panopto that is negatively impacting access to videos stored in older Blackboard courses. The Embed LTI links direct users to the content folder instead of the...

Posted: February 14, 2023, 2:48 PM

Panopto Advanced Training Webinar

Learn about Panopto's advanced recording features

Did you know you can join a recording that is already in progress as well as resume a recording from a different device?  Or, that you are able to lock down or set preferred recording settings in...

Posted: January 19, 2023, 10:15 AM

UMBC Archiving Unviewed Panopto Videos (01/30/23)

No content will be permanently deleted at this time

To comply with recent changes to product licensing, beginning 01/30/23, all Panopto videos that have not been viewed during the preceding 18 months will be moved to archive storage. If one wishes...

Posted: January 5, 2023, 10:04 AM

Panopto 6/25 Downtime and New Features

Panopto Cloud Updates and Downtime on 6/25

Cloud Downtime On Saturday, June 25, Panopto Cloud customers will be upgraded to the latest cloud release. The vendor anticipates up to 3 hours of downtime, with a target start time of 9:00 PM...

Posted: June 14, 2022, 11:38 AM

Instructional Technology Essentials for June 2022

Select from a menu of trainings

Interested in attending an Instructional Technology Essentials session but unsure when it will be? Sign up for one of our sessions by May 20, 2022. Interested participants will be sent a Doodle...

Posted: April 21, 2022, 12:54 PM