Adam MasseyBlackboard had to cancel the work planned for the 26th of January. This work will now be carried out on 2nd February. Access to Blackboard should be considered at risk between 0100 GMT and 0400 GMT
SERVICE DISRUPTION NOTICE: Scheduled maintenance Sunday 26th January
Neil CocklinOur Blackboard infrastructure will be upgraded Sunday 26th January 2014 between 1am and 4am GMT. During this period there will be service disruptions and Blackboard will not be available. This is a change to the previously advertised window of disruption of January 25th 2014.
Down: 13/01/14
Blackboard is currently slow or unreachable. We’ve reached out to Blackboard for more information, and will update here when we know more. Access to Blackboard has been restored
Equella Decomissioning
The University has decided that the Equella repository will be decommissioned in November 2014. From the 18th December 2013, university staff (with the exception of the library) will not be able to contribute items into Equella. Existing items in Equella will be accessible until November 2014. Next steps In the meantime, you can begin to Continue Reading…
Known Issue – Blackboard logins
Overnight there was a problem with the Aston’s internet connection. This appears to have affected logins for any system that is hosted externally to the University which includes Blackboard. To login to Blackboard please login to MAP first at http://aston.ac.uk/map and then browse to http://vle.aston.ac.uk Apologies for any inconvenience, the team is working to resolve Continue Reading…
Known Issue: Double spaced emails
When sending an announcement email or an email through the system with the new web text editor, the message received is double-spaced and isn’t formatted as it appeared in the web text editor before sending. The email is still readable, and the announcement is formatted correctly when viewed in Blackboard. This will be fixed in Continue Reading…
Inline Grading tutorial
We have now added a tutorial that covers the new inline grading feature. This feature allows you to mark text based files in the web browser and give contextulised feedback to students. Check the Inline Grading For Assignments tutorial for more information.
Off-line Working with the grade centre – New tutorial
I have written up a new tutorial regarding how to work off-line with the Grade Centre called Uploading or Downloading Grade Centre Items for Working Offline. This is not a comprehensive tutorial about every way in which the feature can be used. It should be though of as a worked example of the most common Continue Reading…
Service disruption
Blackboard is currently experiencing performance issues. The Blackboard managed hosting team are aware and are working to correct this as soon as possible.
SERVICE DISRUPTION NOTICE: Scheduled maintenance Saturday 12th October
Due to urgent essential maintenance the Blackboard service will be disrupted from midnight GMT on Saturday 12th October until 2am. Apologies for any inconvenience.