Do you use Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets? Join DIT's Digital Accessibility Team for an overview of the Grackle Workspace Accessibility Tool, which will help you check for accessibility issues and generate accessible alternative formats of your files.

Do you use Google Docs, Slides, or Sheets? Join DIT's Digital Accessibility Team for an overview of the Grackle Workspace Accessibility Tool, which will help you check for accessibility issues and generate accessible alternative formats of your files.

Division of IT offices will be closed July 3-4, 2026.

Division of IT offices will be closed Friday, June 19, 2026 in observance of Juneteenth. Additional June service modifications are listed.

AI note-takers sound perfect: no more scrambling to write everything down, no more “sorry, can you repeat that?”, and everyone gets clean notes after the meeting or class. But when you invite an AI bot into a conversation, you are also inviting a third party to capture, store, and sometimes reuse that content in ways you may not expect.Lately, we've seen a growing number of requests for using AI note-taking tools. If you've submitted one, you've probably noticed that our response often comes with a long list of questions. 

As of May 1, 2026, the world was made aware of a breach of Instructure - the company that owns and runs the Canvas learning management system. This breach directly affected the University of Maryland students, faculty, and staff due to the nature of use of Canvas. For students, Canvas is vital for completing classwork, tracking assignments and grades, and communicating with professors or other classmates. For faculty, Canvas is vital to running and maintaining the courses you teach. For staff, Canvas provides a platform for trainings and microcredentialing.

It is somehow already the first week of May, and summer is just around the corner. Hopefully your summer plans consist of a lighter workload, time spent in the water (or near the water, if that is what you prefer), a little bit of a tan (with SPF, of course), and some more free time to review the data you have been slowly accumulating over the course of your career at UMD. We can’t imagine how else you would want to spend a little bit of your free time! Seriously though, not everything needs to linger around forever.

UMD computing systems and services are critical to our teaching, research, administration, and service. As the spring semester winds down and you plan your summer activities, please keep these cybersecurity reminders in mind.