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 Weekly Maintenance Schedule Reminder

This is just a friendly reminder to the UMBC campus community of the Blackboard weekly maintenance schedule window from Friday 10 pm to Saturday 1 am. Although this maintenance window is not...

Posted: January 25, 2013, 2:48 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 1/25 to 1 am 1/26

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 1/25 to 1 am Saturday 1/26.  This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: January 22, 2013, 5:57 AM

Blackboard Upgrade Completed Ahead of Schedule

Blackboard now available at http://blackboard.umbc.edu

The Blackboard upgrade to Bb Learn 9.1 SP9 has been completed successfully, and DoIT staff have been able to bring the system back online earlier than was previously announced.   If users discover...

Posted: January 11, 2013, 12:31 PM

UMBC Blackboard Update: WT2013

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: December 4, 2012, 10:38 AM

DoIT to Change Bb Check My Activity, Add New Faculty Reports

Screencast Shows Sneak Peek at Spring 2013 Changes

Since 2008, the myUMBC Check My Activity (CMA) dashboard has allowed students to compare their own Bb usage with course peers. This brief (5 min) video screencast demos some proposed changes to...

Posted: December 4, 2012, 10:01 AM