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, 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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FYI: Bb Courses Older Than FA2005 Will Be Deleted 8/25

In accordance with the Blackboard Course Retention Policy, all Blackboard courses older than Fall 2005 will be deleted. DoIT has scheduled this removal for Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 3 p.m. No...

Posted: April 28, 2011, 12:33 PM

Hybrid Course Redesign Workshop, June 9, 2011

DoIT and the Faculty Development Center will be offering the Hybrid Course Redesign Workshop on June 9, from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm in ENG 023. Participants will learn the principles of good course...

Posted: April 28, 2011, 11:37 AM

Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 4/29...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 4/29 to 1 am Sat. 4/30The UMBC Blackboard server will be down for three hours of scheduled maintenance starting this Friday, April 29,...

Posted: April 26, 2011, 9:22 PM

SU2011 Bb Course Shells Created on 4/19

Bb course shells for SU 2011 were created on April 19, and will continue to be updated daily. Bb shells were created for all courses (designated as lecture, lab, or discussion) listed in the UMBC...

Posted: April 19, 2011, 9:08 PM

Known Issue: "Not Enough Space on Disk" Error Message...

Full Title: Known Issue: "Not Enough Space on Disk" Error Message (RESOLVED)At approximately 10 am, Friday, April 15, DoIT staff received multiple reports from both faculty and students of a "not...

Posted: April 15, 2011, 3:28 PM