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September 29, 2025

Make Your Panopto Videos Accessible with Captions and Audio Description

Did you know that you can enable and edit automatic captions for your Panopto videos? Or that you can add audio descriptions to videos to be more accessible for visually impaired users?

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September 24, 2025

Six Essential Steps for Digital Accessibility

An overview of the six areas that have the greatest impact on making your online content more accessible. Learn how to avoid adding unintentional barriers to learning and understanding by correctly formatting:

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October 8, 2025

Google Research and AI Day

DIT's Research Computing team is hosting Google Research and AI Day!Faculty, staff, and researchers can discover how Google Workspace translates to Google Cloud Platform (GCP), explore Gemini models for research, and learn about grant acceleration and management with Google Al.

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Keeping UMD’s Information Safe

Message to faculty and staff with three key cybersecurity reminders.

IT Insider - UMD's IT Newsletter

Enjoy our byte-sized e-newsletter full of UMD tech news you can use!

The Grass Can Be Greener on This Side

A couple of weeks ago, we discussed the consequences that the AI training models have on the environment, and, while the costs are real, it’s just as important to ask: what can we do about it?The reality is uncomfortable: our digital lives come with a rising environmental footprint. Every streamed video, email, or notification consumes electricity. The boom in AI-powered tools adds a new layer, embedding energy-hungry processes into daily routines and placing more strain on the infrastructure that powers them.

September 22, 2025

Generative AI AWS GameDay

UMD faculty and staff--Are you interested in a team-based, gamified experience to learn about Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) generative AI platform?

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Ring Doorbells--How safe are they?

When you were a kid/young teenager did you and your friends ever find yourself bored and think “hey, why don’t we go ding dong ditch some neighbors?” In some ways, life was much more simple back then, but now things have changed. The kids can no longer ding dong ditch thanks to Ring, the digital doorbell. These doorbells offer a camera option that records when someone rings the doorbell, or even when there is movement detected in its vicinity.

September 9, 2025

Adobe Express Day

Join Adobe for a fun and creative Adobe Express pop-up event!

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Defend Your Shell Annual Security Awareness Training

Defend Your Shell is the mandatory annual information technology security awareness training for the University of Maryland, College Park and affiliated satellite institutions.

Here are some helpful tips for training season: 

When it's time to complete your training, you'll be able to get started at your Learning Home on Workday. You must log in with your UMD credentials and enroll in the course to begin.

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