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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Blackboard Upgrade Scheduled Dec. 24, 12:30 AM - 12:30 PM

System-wide update planned

Blackboard engineers will perform a system upgrade and maintenance on Thursday morning, December 24, 2015 from 12:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Blackboard will be offline during this period. As previously...

Posted: November 24, 2015, 8:39 AM

WT/SP2016 Courses Created in Blackboard on 11/20/2015

Blackboard course shells for WT2016 and SP2016 were created on November 20, 2015. Bb shells are available for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, field or discussion) listed in the UMBC...

Posted: November 23, 2015, 8:19 AM

Avoid Use of Force Complete on Blackboard Tests

Recommendations incl. Timer, Auto Submit & Lockdown Browser

As midterm evaluations continue this week, the instructional technology team reminds faculty about the challenges of using Force Complete for assessments distributed through Blackboard. When...

Posted: October 7, 2015, 11:52 AM

Update: Monday Drop-In Hours Are Now Virtual

Drop-In hours will be held virtually until mid-November

Starting on Monday, October 5  the Instructional Technology team will provide virtual support during free hour. Join the virtual session by going here. Members of the Instructional Technology...

Posted: October 5, 2015, 9:33 AM

Blackboard Downtime Scheduled Sat. Morning, Oct 3rd, 2-5 AM

Essential system updates & routine maintenance expected

Blackboard engineers will perform essential system updates and routine maintenance on Saturday morning, October 3, 2015 from 2 AM - 5 AM. Blackboard will be offline during this period.  This...

Posted: September 21, 2015, 11:30 AM