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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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

Blackboard Down for Extended Maintenance from 10 pm...

Full Title: Blackboard Down for Extended Maintenance from 10 pm Fri. 3/18 to 10 am Sat. 3/19As a part of DoIT's regular scheduled maintenance, Blackboard will be down for an extended time on...

Posted: March 11, 2011, 1:01 PM

IHE Journal Publishes Article on Check My Activity...

Full Title: IHE Journal Publishes Article on Check My Activity Tool for StudentsThe Internet and Higher Education has published an article about UMBC's Check My Activity (CMA) tool for students in...

Posted: February 24, 2011, 2:44 PM