Adam MasseyThe video feedback tools for Blackboard assignments will be unavailable from midnight, for up to three hours.
Category: Maintenance
Scheduled Maintenance: 31 August 2021
Blackboard will perform a database upgrade on Blackboard Learn, beginning at 0030 on 31 August 2021. Based on upgrades performed at other institutions, Blackboard expect the upgrade to take four hours to complete. See details for other time zones. Blackboard will be unavailable while this upgrade takes place.
Video Recording Feedback: Scheduled Maintenance on 11 May
The video feedback tools for Blackboard assignments will be unavailable from midnight, for up to three hours. See details for other time zones. This does not affect other areas of feedback in Blackboard Assignments, nor does it affect Turnitin assignments. Any instructor who tries to create a feedback recording, and any student who tries to Continue Reading…
SafeAssign: Scheduled maintenance 18 May 2021
SafeAssign will be unavailable between 0600-0800 BST on 18 May 2021 (see details for other time zones). During the maintenance, Students will be able to submit as normal. Assignments will be affected as follows: Files will be queued and sent to SafeAssign after the maintenance is complete. Instructors accessing the SafeAssign course tool will see Continue Reading…
Video Recording Feedback: Scheduled Maintenance on 13 February
The video feedback tools for Blackboard assignments will be unavailable from midnight, for up to three hours. See details for other time zones. This does not affect other areas of feedback in Blackboard Assignments, nor does it affect Turnitin assignments. Any instructor who tries to create a feedback recording, and any student who tries to Continue Reading…
Blackboard mobile apps: Scheduled maintenance 26 December
The Blackboard App (for students) and Blackboard Instructor App will be unavailable for four hours on the morning of 26 December 2020. If you try to use the apps between 0500 and 0900 GMT (see details for other time zones), you will see an error message saying that the service is currently unavailable and to Continue Reading…
Service Interruption: 29 to 31 July 2019
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…
We’re changing how we host Blackboard Learn
We’re moving from Managed Hosting to SaaS. At the end of July, we’ll migrate to SaaS hosting. This always runs the latest version of Blackboard Learn, and upgrades don’t require it to be unavailable while they are installed. To do this, we need to take the live system offline to allow for the materials to Continue Reading…
Service Interruption: 31 May 2019
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
Service Interruption: 1 March 2019
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