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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New Instructional Technology Staff Start New Semester

If you’re seeing some new faces in DoIT, chances are they work in instructional technology. In March, DoIT announced Sherri Braxton-Lieber as our new Director of Instructional Technology. In July,...

Posted: August 25, 2014, 1:14 PM

Bb Courses Prior to 2009 to be Deleted August 23-24

Courses older than Winter 2009 will be deleted from Blackboard during the weekend of August 23-24, 2014. This includes: Winter 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Spring 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008...

Posted: August 22, 2014, 3:59 PM

FA2014 Bb Course Shells Created 7/12/14

Bb course shells for FA2014 were created on July 12, 2014 on the Bb production server at http://blackboard.umbc.edu.  Enrollments for FA2014 courses will continue to be updated daily....

Posted: August 21, 2014, 2:15 PM

Known Issue: Course Lists Cannot Exceed 99 Courses

Too Much of a Good Thing

The maximum number of courses displayed within the “My Courses” module under myBlackboard or within the “Courses: Quick View” module under the Courses tab in Blackboard is 99. If you are enrolled...

Posted: August 20, 2014, 4:00 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 7 AM on 8/21

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down 7 AM Thurs 8/21

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down beginning at 7 AM on Thursday, 8/21.  This downtime is outside of the regularly scheduled maintenance window but is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: August 18, 2014, 11:07 AM