Blackboard Maintenance – Change SMTP mail relay – Friday, July 7th, 2017
Blackboard will be performing maintenance during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Friday, July 7th, 2017 Begin Time: Friday, July 7th, 2017 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, July 7th, 2017 02:30 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: Change Blackboard’s SMTP relay to mail-relay-va2.blackboard.com. Blackboard is currently using the VCU SMTP mail relay. This is causing mail to be flagged as potential SPAM […]
Blackboard Maintenance – Friday, June 23rd, 2017
We received the following alert from Blackboard: Blackboard will be performing maintenance during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Friday, June 23rd, 2017 Begin Time: Friday, June 23rd, 2017 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, June 23rd, 2017 06:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: During this maintenance window, VCU will NOT experience an interruption to the production Blackboard services, however we are notifying you […]
Blackboard Maintenance – Friday, July 28th, 2017
We received the following alert from Blackboard: Blackboard will be performing maintenance during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Friday, July 28th, 2017 Begin Time: Friday, July 28th, 2017 22:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Saturday, July 29th, 2017 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: During this maintenance window, VCU will NOT experience an interruption to the production Blackboard services, however we are notifying you just […]
Blackboard Mobile Learn Transition to Bb Student & Bb Instructor
Transitioning from Mobile Learn to the Blackboard app (created for Students) & Blackboard Instructor apps: Effective August 1, 2017, Mobile Learn will be removed from all app stores. After August 31, 2017, Blackboard will no longer support Mobile Learn. Students should begin transitioning to the “Blackboard” app, which is available now & Instructors to the […]
Blackboard Learn Upgrade – May 16th, 2017 – Completed May 17th at 2:30PM
Blackboard Upgrade to Q4 2016 Release has been Completed Reminder: The VCU Blackboard system will be upgraded to a newer version on May 16-17. Begin Time: Tuesday, May 16th, 2017, 8:00pm (EST) End Time: Wednesday, May 17th, 2017, 8:00pm (EST) Blackboard will NOT be available during this time. We expect the upgrade to take less […]
Rolling restart of Blackboard Production application servers
Beginning Date: Thursday, May 11th, 2017 2:30pm US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Thursday, May 11th, 2017 3:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Blackboard Managed Hosting will perform a rolling restart of our Production Blackboard servers. Rolling restarts will be performed so that there will be no downtime to users. Regards, The VCU Blackboard Team
SafeAssign processing delays
We received the following alert from Blackboard Bulletin/Advisory Information: The Blackboard SafeAssign service continues to experience delays in returning Originality Reports and results to end users. We understand the impact that these delays have had on users and apologize for the poor performance of the system during this time. The root cause of the delays continues […]
Update – Blackboard Intermittent Login Issues – RESOLVED
Blackboard Managed Hosting Engineers and the VCU Blackboard Team has resolved our intermittent login issues. Both teams will continue to monitor our servers throughout the night; however, no further updates will be provided. We appreciate your cooperation and patience. Apr. 18, 2017 @ 9:00pm
Blackboard Maintenance – Friday, March 31st, 2017
We received the following alert from Blackboard: Blackboard will be performing maintenance during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Friday, March 31st, 2017 Begin Time: Friday, March 31st, 2017 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, March 31st, 2017 06:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: During this maintenance window, VCU will NOT experience an interruption to the production Blackboard services, however we are […]
Blackboard Maintenance – Friday, March 24th, 2017
We received the following alert from Blackboard: Blackboard will be performing maintenance during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Friday, March 24th, 2017 Begin Time: Friday, March 24th, 2017 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, March 24th, 2017 06:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: During this maintenance window, VCU will NOT experience an interruption to the production Blackboard services, however we are notifying you just […]