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, 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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SP2013 Blackboard Drop-in Sessions

DoIT offering F2F and virtual Bb drop-in sessions

DoIT is offering Blackboard Drop-in Sessions to assist and help faculty prepare for spring courses. Virtual Sessions: DoIT will continue offering virtual drop-in sessions using Bb...

Posted: November 26, 2012, 11:35 AM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 11/30 to 1 am 12/1

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 11/30 to 1 am Saturday 12/1.  This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: November 19, 2012, 6:58 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 10/26 to 1 am 10/27

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 10/26 to 1 am Saturday 10/27.  This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: October 24, 2012, 1:16 PM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 9/28 to 1 am 9/29

The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 9/28 to 1 am Saturday 9/29.  This down time is during the regularly scheduled maintenance window and is necessary for DoIT staff to...

Posted: September 25, 2012, 1:31 PM

UMBC Blackboard Update: FA2012

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 17, 2012, 3:58 PM