Adam Massey Blackboard Learn will be unavailable between 29 July and 31 July, inclusive. We’re moving to Blackboard’s SaaS hosting which always runs the latest version, and doesn’t require any downtime when upgrades are installed. Migrating to Blackboard’s SaaS hosting requires the live system to be taken offline to allow for materials to be moved, and testing Continue Reading…
Access to Blackboard will be interrupted during the early hours of Friday 31 May 2019. Expect Blackboard to be unavailable during the hours of 0100 and 0500 BST while infrastructure maintenance is carried out See details for other time zones
Access to Blackboard will be briefly interrupted during the early hours of Friday 1 March 2019. Blackboard expect a few minutes of interruptions between 0100 and 0500 GMT while the Managed Hosting team perform infrastructure maintenance. See details for other time zones
Access to Blackboard will be interrupted during the early hours of Friday 25 January 2019. Interruptions to service are expected between 0100 and 0500 GMT while Blackboard’s Managed Hosting team perform infrastructure maintenance. See details for other time zones
Access to Blackboard will be interrupted during the early hours of Friday 28 December 2018. Blackboard’s Managed Hosting team will be performing infrastructure maintenance. Interruptions to service are expected between 0100 GMT and 0500 GMT See details for other time zones
Blackboard will be upgraded on 16 December 2018. 🎁 Blackboard Managed Hosting will start work at 0100 GMT, it will take up to twelve hours to complete. See details for other timezones. Blackboard will be unavailable during this time, and it should be considered at risk on Monday.
The upgrade planned for Sunday 19 August has been postponed. The chosen date would impact students revising for resits and submitting assignments. A date during the 2018 academic year will be investigated and agreed with all of the Schools and announced in due course. This post was edited on 8 August 2018 to announce the Continue Reading…
Access to Blackboard will be interrupted overnight on Thursday, 28th June 2018 into the early hours of Friday 29th. The work will begin at 2300 BST and will last six hours. Access to Blackboard should be considered at risk during these times. See details for other time zones.
Please note that there is a scheduled Rolling Restart on Aston Blackboard System for Wednesday 30th May at 1am BST. This is a necessary task to be undertaking to avoid future performance issues on the Blackboard database environment. We don’t expect any disruption on services over this period, but we will keep you updated on progress. Continue Reading…
The following video shows you how to apply specific Test/Quiz settings to specific students or groups. Subtitles/Closed captions are available in the video player and a full transcript is also available to download (pdf). PLEASE NOTE: This video was updated 05/05/2018.
Neil Cocklin
June 25, 2019