Adam MasseyThe 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…
Category: Maintenance
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…
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…
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…
Data centre maintenance – interruption to service
Upcoming maintenance at Blackboard’s data centre will result in interruptions to service. The work will begin at 2300 GMT on Friday 17 November, and will last six hours. See details for other time zones. During this time, there will be interruptions to Blackboard. Blackboard’s Managed Hosting team will make every effort to minimise downtime during Continue Reading…
What’s new in Blackboard for 2017?
We’re now running the latest version of Blackboard – the Q2 2017 release. Here’s what’s new.
Blackboard Upgrade 2017
Our annual upgrade is scheduled to begin on 30 August 2017.
Blackboard Managed Hosting will begin work at 2100 BST, it will take up to fifteen hours to complete.
Scheduled Maintenance: 20 March 2017
Blackboard will be unavailable from 0001 GMT on Monday 20 March for up to eight hours. During this time, Blackboard’s Managed Hosting team will perform maintenance on Blackboard. See details for other timezones
Scheduled Maintenance: 22 November 2016
Blackboard will be unavailable from 2230 GMT on 22 November, for up to eight hours. During this time, Blackboard’s Managed Hosting team will install the latest cumulative update for the Q2 2016 release. See details for other timezones. Cumulative Update 3 includes fixes for several issues we’ve had this term, including: Failed to launch the Continue Reading…