Blackboard Collaborate Maintenance – Sunday, August 5th, 2018
We received the following alert from Blackboard: Blackboard will be performing scheduled maintenance on Sunday, August 5th, 2018 Begin Time: Sunday, August 5th, 2018 12:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Sunday, August 5th, 2018 10:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: Please note, On Sunday, August 5th, 2018, all Collaborate Original and Collaborate Ultra services will be unavailable during these infrastructure maintenance windows. […]
Known Issue: Collaborate Ultra session attendees using Firefox version 61 and above
Issue Description: Collaborate Ultra session attendees using Firefox version 61 and above cannot be heard by other session attendees. Expected result: the Firefox user is heard by others in the session. Actual result: the Firefox user is not heard by others in the session. Session attendees using Firefox 61 and above cannot be heard by […]
Blackboard Maintenance – Friday, June 29th, 2018
We received the following alert from Blackboard: Blackboard will be performing scheduled maintenance on Friday, June 29th, 2018 Begin Time: Friday, June 29th, 2018 12:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, June 29th, 2018 6:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: On Friday, June 29th, 2018 between the hours of 12:00 am to 06:00 am Local DataCenter Time, the Managed Hosting Engineers will […]
VoiceThread Maintenance – Wednesday, July 4th from 12:00 AM to 1:00 AM
Begin Time: Wednesday, July 4th, 2018 12:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Wednesday, July 4th, 2018 01:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Voicethread will be performing system updates on Wednesday, July 4 from 12:00 AM (midnight) to 1:00 AM EDT (UTC -4). VoiceThread will NOT be available for this period. Kind Regards, VCU Blackboard Team blackboard@vcu.edu
Blackboard Collaborate Maintenance – Friday, June 8th, 2018
We received the following alert from Blackboard: Blackboard will be performing scheduled maintenance on Friday, June 8th, 2018 Begin Time: Friday, June 8th, 2018 2:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, June 8th, 2018 6:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: On Friday, June 8, 2018, Blackboard will be performing infrastructure maintenance at our VA2 data center. While we anticipate no interruption […]
Resolved – Problems with Safari 11.1 and Utilizing Blackboard
Issue Description: Assignment submissions that include a file upload fail on submit when attempted using the Safari web browser version 11.1. Apple’s most recent update to Safari 11.1 has caused a problem to prevent users from uploading any files to Blackboard. Blackboard is currently aware of the issue and will provide more information later. Currently, […]
Blackboard Maintenance – Friday, May 25th, 2018
We received the following alert from Blackboard: Blackboard will be performing scheduled maintenance on Friday, May 25th, 2018 Begin Time: Friday, May 25th, 2018 2:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, May 25th, 2018 6:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: During this window Blackboard will be performing infrastructure maintenance at our Virginia (VA2) data center. While there are no service interruption anticipated […]
Blackboard Production – Update Building Block
Begin Time: Monday, May 14th, 2018 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Monday, May 14th, 2018 03:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Blackboard building block (Blackboard Mobile Web Services) will be updated. Although the update is being done without taking the system offline, there will be brief interruptions in service tools in Blackboard. Kind Regards, Blackboard Team blackboard@vcu.edu
Blackboard Upgrade to latest version – Tuesday, May 15th, 2018 – Completed May 16th at 12:30PM
Blackboard Upgrade to Q4 2017 Release has been Completed Blackboard will be upgraded to the latest version, Bb 9.1 “Q4 2017” release beginning at 8:00pm on Tuesday, May 15th and will last approximately 20-30 hours. This new version will be used starting with the 2018 summer semester. All previously existing courses will remain on the […]
Blackboard Collaborate Maintenance – Saturday, April 21st, 2018
We received the following alert from Blackboard: Blackboard Collaborate will be performing scheduled maintenance on Saturday, April 21st, 2018 Begin Time: Saturday, April 21st, 2018 04:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Saturday, April 21st, 2018 06:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: While we anticipate no interruption in service as a result of the work being performed, we […]