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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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

Known Issue: Students Can't Access Bb Course Files

DoIT is tracking a problem that has emerged in a dozen Fall 2011 Blackboard courses in which students see the following error: Workaround Actually, the files DO exist in the course, but...

Posted: September 7, 2011, 8:53 AM

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

UMBC Blackboard Help Now Part of myUMBC Help Wiki

As part of campus-wide user support changes announced by the Division of Information Technology (DoIT) earlier this summer, the Blackboard Help tab inside Bb (available at...

Posted: August 24, 2011, 7:16 AM

WT 2012 Alternate Delivery Program Provides Hybrid...

Full Title: WT 2012 Alternate Delivery Program Provides Hybrid Course SupportThe Alternate Delivery Program (ADP), sponsored by the Office of the Provost, and the Office of Summer , Winter and...

Posted: August 23, 2011, 9:04 PM