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, a page that highlights free resources and provides guidance on using GenAI while safeguarding UMBC institutional data safely.

For staff seeking support, we encourage people to look at Administrative AI, as a starting point. Our goal is to save folks time, improve the quality of their work, and increase productivity. We showcase tools that DoIT provides to support these objectives.

We have launched myUMBC Answers, an AI-supported search bar. We are seeking partners to expand this tool. The key to leveraging myUMBC Answers is providing validated and accurate content, such as annual FAQs or handbooks.

Faculty, are encouraged to explore Instructional AI and Research AI. The UMBC Center for AI in the College of Engineering is an excellent resource for AI-related research and innovation.  Stay informed by following the center’s social media chnnels 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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Known Issue: Missing Bb Modules Caused by Editing

DoIT recomends users not edit module settings

5/19/14 Update: This issue is fixed in Service Pack (SP) 14 of version 9.1. We are on SP 13, but are unlikely to upgrade before January 2015 given overlapping dates when final grades are due...

Posted: April 29, 2014, 1:40 PM

Changes to the Blackboard WT2014 Server

http://bb-winter.umbc.edu will go offline on 3/21

DoIT staff will be making several changes to the WT2014 Bb server in preparation for archiving/restoring the WT2014 courses to the UMBC Bb production server.  All WT2014 instructors have been...

Posted: March 14, 2014, 1:43 PM

Spring Blackboard Drop-in Hours

Got Questions? We Have Answers!

To support faculty ongoing Blackboard support needs,  DoIT will be offering additional weekly drop-in hours beginning Monday, February 24. A DoIT staff member will be available to work one-on-one...

Posted: February 19, 2014, 10:21 AM

DoIT Update on Recent Webmail, Blackboard Issues

Load Balancer "Root Cause" to be Reviewed This Semester

To the UMBC Campus Community, Over the past 7-10 days, DoIT has been troubleshooting technical issues with the Cyrus campus Webmail system and Blackboard. Initially, we saw these as separate...

Posted: January 24, 2014, 3:14 PM

Blackboard Known Issues Resolved

Creating & Reusing Assessment Issues Working Normally

1/22/14 Update We appear to be back to normal now.  1/21/14 Update Spoke too soon. We're not seeing as many cases of export/import issues (#2 below), but we are still seeing issues...

Posted: January 17, 2014, 6:14 PM