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, a page that highlights free resources and provides guidance on using GenAI while safeguarding UMBC institutional data safely.

For staff seeking support, we encourage people to look at Administrative AI, as a starting point. Our goal is to save folks time, improve the quality of their work, and increase productivity. We showcase tools that DoIT provides to support these objectives.

We have launched myUMBC Answers, an AI-supported search bar. We are seeking partners to expand this tool. The key to leveraging myUMBC Answers is providing validated and accurate content, such as annual FAQs or handbooks.

Faculty, are encouraged to explore Instructional AI and Research AI. The UMBC Center for AI in the College of Engineering is an excellent resource for AI-related research and innovation.  Stay informed by following the center’s social media chnnels 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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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

Transition for Confluence (wiki.umbc.edu)

Changes to wiki.umbc.edu, migration plan to Confluence Cloud

Atlassian, the maker of the Confluence software platform, is ending support for its server products in February 2024. Due to this change, we are migrating Confluence, our campus wiki...

Posted: November 14, 2023, 10:49 AM