Adam MasseyBlackboard 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…
Category: Maintenance
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
Service Interruption: 25 January 2019
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
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 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
Neil CocklinPlease 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…