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, BlueskyX, 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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Reminder to FA2011 Faculty to Download Bb Gradebook,...

Full Title: Reminder to FA2011 Faculty to Download Bb Gradebook, Bb Upgrade on 12/22As previously announced, DoIT will be upgrading the Blackboard (Bb) production system on Thursday, December 22...

Posted: December 1, 2011, 1:28 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 10/28...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 10/28 to 1 am Sat. 10/29The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for three hours of scheduled maintenance from 10 pm Friday, Oct. 28 to 1...

Posted: October 25, 2011, 7:46 AM

12/22 Bb Upgrade Will Delay Auto-Creation of WT & SP...

Full Title: 12/22 Bb Upgrade Will Delay Auto-Creation of WT & SP 2012 CoursesTo fix a known issue of broken content links in some courses, reduce growing web browser incompatibilities, and...

Posted: October 12, 2011, 5:44 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 9/30...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 9/30 to 1 am Sat. 10/1The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for three hours of scheduled maintenance from 10 pm Friday, Sept. 30 to 1...

Posted: September 27, 2011, 1:28 PM

UMBC Blackboard Update: FA2011

UMBC Blackboard update is provided by the Division of Information Technology for students, faculty and staff using Blackboard at UMBC. If you have questions or need help, please consult the...

Posted: August 25, 2011, 6:49 AM