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Blackboard will be unavailable during the scheduled maintenance window (8:00am-12:30pm) on Wednesday, December 23rd for installation of a system update. We strongly recommend that you save all work and log off prior to the beginning of this work.

Most IT services (including Blackboard) will be unavailable throughout campus Saturday, Oct. 24, from 4 p.m.-midnight, as a result of equipment testing. Phone service will not be available in Building L during this time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

The maintenance previously scheduled for 9/26 has been postponed. All IT services will be available as normal.

On Saturday, September 26, testing of the UPS and generator system in the L building computer room will be conducted during our scheduled maintenance window of 4 p.m. to midnight. Most IT services, including Blackboard, Email and the college web site, will experience temporary and intermittent interruptions. We apologize for any inconvenience this important project [...]

From 12:01 to 12:30 a.m. Thursday the primary Internet provider will perform maintenance on its equipment that will cause us to move to our backup connection. You may experience slower than normal connectivity during this time period.

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Bb was off-line August 5-7 in order to perform some needed preventative maintenance and software updates to the environment.  In addition to applying a needed hot fix and an upgrade to Java, we were able to bring the system down and make some configuration changes to strengthen the fail-over capabilities of the application servers. During [...]

Some critical technology troubleshooting for the new UPS/Generator that must occur before fall classes begin will take place on Friday, from approximately 7- 10 p.m. There is a small chance this work will cause some technology services to be shut down for short periods of time. We apologize for any inconvenience this work may cause.

The shipment of a replacement part for this morning’s maintenance has been delayed.  An update to the maintenance schedule will be posted when we know what the ETA for the part is known.

Some critical technology troubleshooting for the new UPS/Generator that must occur before fall classes begin will take place on Friday, from approximately 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. There is a small chance this work will cause some technology services to be shut down for short periods of time. We apologize for any inconvenience this work [...]

Web services and Blackboard will be intermittently and temporarily unavailable Aug. 8 and 9 due to scheduled maintenance. Blackboard also will have intermittent outages Aug. 5-7. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

As you may have heard already, Blackboard, Inc. acquired ANGEL Learning, Inc. in May of this year. Of significance for Bb clients was the hiring of Ray Henderson (former ANGEL VP/Chief Products Officer) to be the President of Blackboard Learn where he will have responsibility for product development, support, services and hosting for all (Bb [...]

For planning purposes, below is the Bb maintenance schedule for the 2009/2010 academic year: Summer 2009 August 5th thru 7th (Wed – Fri)* Fall 2009 October 24th (Sat) December 23rd (Wed)* Spring 2010 February 13th (Sat) OR 15th (Mon) March 15th (Mon) Summer 2010 May 29th (Sat) August 12th – 14th (Wed – Fri) *These [...]