You may have experienced issues accessing Blackboard this morning: A small number of clients are reporting intermittent connectivity issues to the AMS1 data center. The operations teams are actively investigating the reported issues. status.blackboard.com/services/blackboard-learn-data-centers/2017/04/19 The problems were fixed by lunchtime.
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Blackboard Unavailable
Blackboard is currently running very slowly, or is unavailable. We’re working with Blackboard’s Managed Hosting team to restore access. Updates: #TT172929 – Our monitoring tools indicate throughput issues in Manchester since 11:03 BST Thursday 14th April. We are investigating. — Jisc Major Incidents (@jiscmi) April 14, 2016 #TT172929 – Manchester – This is a DDoS, Continue Reading…
Blackboard is currently down
Please be informed that JANET is down and users are currently unable to access Blackboard VLE. We are working to resolve this issue and we will update you once we have more details.
Final Reminder – Equella to be phased out on 13th November 2015
This is a final reminder advising you that Aston’s Equella Repository will be decommissioned on Friday 13th November 2015. If you still have any outstanding Equella items published on Blackboard, please remove or make them unavailable before the cut-off date; any Equella links on Blackboard will be broken, after this date. Therefore, we would advise Continue Reading…
Students’ enrolment on 2015 Blackboard accredited modules
Please be informed that students are now enrolled onto their respective 2015 modules on Blackboard. Please also be mindful that not all 2015 modules are currently made available to students, in this context, please consult your module tutor/instructor and request for your module to be made available to students. However, if you are still unable Continue Reading…
Blackboard DDOS Attack
Access to Blackboard was interrupted twice today. The first time was around half past eleven Aston's Blackboard is down. Blackboard Managed Hosting are aware and are investigating the cause cc @isa_helpdesk — AstonTEL (@AstonTEL) November 4, 2014 Access was restored at approximately 11:45 We've not had official word from Managed Hosting, but it looks like Continue Reading…
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…