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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.

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.

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 the [...]

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 [...]

The campus experienced a loss of commercial power this morning just before 8:00 am.  As a result, both Blackboard systems (version 6.3 and version 8) as well as our primary internet web server were brought down.  A backup web server (in another building) is currently online and better reflects the status of the power outage, you can check it (at [...]

A restart of the Blackboard environment is planned for this Friday morning (June 20th) during the morning maintenance window.
This restart is to follow up after the Monday evening incident.
We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

We wanted to confirm that Blackboard did have periods of unavailability last night (Monday, June 16th) from approximately 9pm until after 10pm.
The problem affected the storage servers that contain documents such as those attached for download or in the digital drop box so some students may report that they could neither download or upload files [...]

In preparation for the fall implementation of Blackboard version 8, training workshops are being offered by the Center for Teaching and Learning. The workshops will be held during the summer semester and are designed to provide hands-on experience with the new features and tools including Syllabus, Glossary Manager, Self & Peer Assessment, and the [...]

Click here to watch the latest video tour of Release 8.0.

Blackboard has recently released a web site designed to provide learning resources regarding their latest release.
Sahar Javadi, Senior Product Marketing Manager says, “you’ll find interactive product tours designed to provide a quick but engaging, and easy-to-forward, look at various parts of Release 8.0.  For even more detailed informatino, you can view a recorded Webinar and [...]

In order to resolve the technical issues we’ve experienced between our version of Blackboard and Internet Explorer 7 as well as provide more functionality (such as an improved grade book and a plagiarism prevention tool) we are in the planning phase for upgrading our Blackboard system. We would very much appreciate your participation and feedback, [...]

Here’s a link to a 30 minute screencast from Donna Wicks at Kettering University for those interested in learning more about version 8.  Thanks to Jason Rhode (Northern Illinois University) for sharing.
http://tinyurl.com/3dco7w