Adam MasseyAccess 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
Service Interruption: 28 December 2018
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 Upgrade: 16 December 2018
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.
Blackboard Upgrade 2018 – postponed
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…
Service Interruption: 28 & 29 June
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.
Blackboard Rolling Restart
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…
Quick Tips – Test Availability Exceptions
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.
Interruption to service on 27 April 2018
Blackboard will be unavailable for up to 30 mins during the early hours of Friday, 27 April 2018. The work will begin at 0100 BST and will last six hours. See details for other time zones. Blackboard’s Managed Hosting team say the six hours is for the entire maintenance work to complete, and that Blackboard should Continue Reading…
Quick Tips – File upload drag and drop locations
The following video shows you where you can drag and drop multiple files to make uploading content to Blackboard quicker and easier. Subtitles/Closed captions are available in the video player and a full transcript is also available to download (pdf).
Issues fixed in January 2018
The upgrade over new year, to prepare us for the move to New Box View, also squished some bugs. As we were moving from Q2 2017 Cumulative Update 3, to Q2 2017 Cumulative Update 5, there were lots of fixes. The following three caused us the most problems this academic year: Can’t access menus in the Continue Reading…