Blackboard Maintenance: June 22nd, 12:30am – June 22nd, 4:30pm
Begin Time: Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 00:30 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Saturday, June 22nd, 2019 16:30 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Blackboard will be down for maintenance on Saturday, June 22nd – starting at 12:30 a.m. until Saturday, June 22nd 4:30 p.m. This downtime is required to apply a critical security patch. It is estimated the entire time will not be needed to complete […]
Blackboard Upgrade to latest version – Completed
Blackboard has been upgraded to the latest version, Bb 9.1 “Q4 2018” release. Blackboard is being upgraded to the latest version, Bb 9.1 “Q4 2018” release beginning at 8:00pm on Tuesday, May 14th and will last approximately 20-30 hours. This new version will be used starting with the 2019 summer semester. All previously existing courses […]
End of Semester Email to Blackboard Faculty – Spring 2019
Greetings Blackboard Faculty, We hope your Spring is going well! Here are some reminders of events, Blackboard system updates, and procedures that we’d like you to be aware of while you’re finishing out the Spring 2019 term! Blackboard – What to expect over the next year Blackboard Upgrade, May 14th, 2019, starting at 8PM – […]
Blackboard Upgrade to latest version – Tuesday, May 14th, 2019
Blackboard will be upgraded to the latest version, Bb 9.1 “Q4 2018” release beginning at 8:00pm on Tuesday, May 14th and will last approximately 20-30 hours. This new version will be used starting with the 2019 summer semester. All previously existing courses will remain on the system and will be available after the upgrade. In […]
Blackboard Maintenance – Sunday, March, 31st, 2019 – Service Impacting
Blackboard will be performing scheduled maintenance on Sunday, March 31st, 2019 Begin Time: Sunday, March 31st, 2019 02:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Sunday, March 31st, 2019 7:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: Blackboard will be performing Service Impacting maintenance replacing firewall devices to increase capacity. Please take note that this is a service impacting maintenance occurring on a Sunday which […]
Blackboard Maintenance – Friday, March, 22nd, 2019 – Service Impacting
Blackboard will be performing scheduled maintenance on Friday, March 22nd, 2019 Begin Time: Friday, March 22nd, 2019 02:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, March 22nd, 2019 7:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: Blackboard will be performing Service Impacting maintenance replacing firewall devices to increase capacity. Please take note that this is a service impacting maintenance occurring on a Friday which […]
Respondus Monitor – A trial opportunity!
Greetings from Learning Systems! tl;dr A short trial with Respondus Monitor will be available and open to all instructors, May 1st, 2019 – July 31st, 2019. Training will be available on April 1st at 11AM for VCU instructors. Until then, Respondus is offering a New Features general webinar for instructors. Description from the vendor’s website […]
Blackboard – Inline Grading with New Box View – RESOLVED
We have received the following notice from Blackboard: Clients are currently reporting issues with inline grading. Box is currently working on the issues with the tool.
Blackboard Cloud Connector Issue – RESOLVED
We have received the following notice from Blackboard: Blackboard is experiencing issues with Cloud Connector that is affecting Box View, SafeAssign, and third party B2’s that require cloud access. Engineers are working on this and clients are beginning to see the issue is resolved.
Blackboard Production – Update Kaltura Building Block
Begin Time: Friday, February 15th, 2018 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, February 15th, 2018 03:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Blackboard building block (Kaltura) 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