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The Basics of using myUMBC for Students

A general overview of where to find information on myUMBC

Welcome to myUMBC! Here is a brief overview of what and where to find information as a UMBC student. What's new this fall? Search / Ask Bar This is a useful research tool for finding what...

Posted: September 15, 2025, 11:06 AM

The myUMBC logo in front of a black background. There is an image in each corner of the graphic including a magnifying glass (top left), a notification bell (top right), an id/profile graphic (bottom left), and a group of people (bottom right)

myUMBC Answers: AI-Powered Search Bar Updates

Providing answers that are unique to you!

In early February, the myUMBC team launched my UMBC Answers, an AI-driven search bar to improve experiences for students, faculty, and staff while ensuring security and privacy. Now, all campus...

Posted: April 18, 2025, 1:53 PM

Sample text box of a question being asked to myUMBC Answers

New myUMBC Answers: AI-Powered Search Bar

Get personalized answers to your searches on myUMBC!

The myUMBC team has been exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) can make the platform better for students, faculty, and staff, all while ensuring security and privacy. We are excited to...

Posted: February 10, 2025, 10:38 AM

Notice: DoIT Is Changing Mailing List Vendor

Google Groups & myUMBC will be used for communications

DoIT has begun transitioning users off mailing lists to Google Groups and myUMBC. We expect this transition to be completed by the end of June 2017. Sympa, the campus software used for handling...

Posted: May 8, 2017, 11:48 AM

Information about myUMBC outage on Monday February 20th

This morning around 9:10am we experienced a failure of several disk arrays on our central storage system. The arrays that failed affected several critical systems, including myUMBC and parts of...

Posted: February 20, 2017, 11:53 AM

Downtime Saturday 2/20 at 9:00am for myUMBC, Sites and Wiki

We will taking downtime this Saturday morning at 9:00am for MyUMBC, our sites and wiki web environment starting at 9am. We expect each system to be down for a few minutes, and all work should be...

Posted: February 19, 2016, 11:26 AM

Faculty and Staff Encouraged to Update Directory Listings

Log into your myUMBC profile and make the necessary changes

The UMBC Directory Search offers a browse by department feature that shows people affiliated with a university department. At times, people may incorrectly appear as part of a department, so it’s...

Posted: June 22, 2015, 4:15 PM

UMBC Now Offers Microsoft Office

1 Terabyte of storage on OneDrive also included

In addition to online access to all Microsoft Office products, including Word, PowerPoint and Excel, UMBC students, faculty and staff now have access to 1 Terabyte of cloud storage through...

Posted: June 8, 2015, 9:05 AM

Putting More "my" into myUMBC

Open Houses to Focus on Summer Campus Portal Changes

On April 27, 29, and May 1 at 1 p.m. in Engineering room 023, UMBC’s campus portal architect, Collier Jones, will host “open house” discussions on why and how myUMBC will be changing this summer....

Posted: April 28, 2015, 3:30 PM

myUMBC Quick Update: October 6, 2011

Here's a little midday present for you all... an UPDATE. Group Notifications When posting content within a group, you have the option on whether or not to send notifications to group...

Posted: October 6, 2011, 11:44 AM