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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Spring Clean Your "My Courses" List in Blackboard

Blackboard now supports term organization

Whether teaching or taking courses, after semesters of enrollments and access to Blackboard, the My Courses list can really stack up. While faculty and students can edit the listing to remove...

Posted: April 21, 2015, 11:58 AM

Instructional Technology Training Scheduled for Summer

Workshops planned for Blackboard, Box, and more

As we look forward to sunnier days and warmer temperatures, the Instructional Technology team has scheduled several useful workshops to support faculty and staff: June 2 - Blackboard 101 2 - ...

Posted: April 16, 2015, 1:48 PM

April Technology of the Month

Adaptive Release

Adaptive Release provides controls to release content to students based on a set of rules provided by the instructor. The rules may be related to availability, date and time, individual users and...

Posted: April 2, 2015, 8:46 AM

DoIT Recommends Course Copy vs Export/Import

Beginning SU2015: Quickly recycle courses & connect content

Over many years, Blackboard courses at UMBC were exported out of and imported back into the system. This process met a specific need at a specific time, and continues to provide a way for faculty...

Posted: March 24, 2015, 9:49 AM

Instructional Technology Training Scheduled for Spring

Workshops planned for Blackboard, Box, and more

As we look forward to sunnier days and warmer temperatures, the Instructional Technology team has scheduled several useful workshops to support faculty and staff: March Training 10 - "You Did...

Posted: March 9, 2015, 10:00 AM