Blackboard Maintenance – Friday, February 8th, 2019
Blackboard will be performing scheduled maintenance on Friday, February 1st, 2019 Begin Time: Friday, February 8th, 2019 02:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, February 8th, 2019 6:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: Blackboard will be performing maintenance. While we anticipate no interruption in service as a result of the work, we cannot entirely rule out brief periods of intermittent connectivity […]
Blackboard Bb Grader App End of Life: March 29th, 2019
NOTE: Bb Grader will be removed from the Apple App Store and support will cease to service on March 29th, 2019 in all markets. This discontinuation furthers the progress Blackboard has made across product portfolio to simplify, consolidate, and promote their next generation solutions. As a part of Blackboard’s commitment to delivering a portfolio of high-quality […]
TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 Deprecation may lead to Blackboard connection failures
TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 Deprecation may lead to connection failures. If you receive connection failures to Blackboard, please upgrade your browser to a supported version. You may learn more about browser support here.
Blackboard Mobile App Partial Outage – January 8th, 2019
NOTE: This problem has already been resolved, however we want to make Blackboard Mobile users aware that the issue occurred. Issue was resolved as of 7:00am EST on January 9th, 2019. Root cause is being investigated. Users of the Blackboard and Blackboard Instructor mobile apps are currently unable to search for their institutions. Users with […]
Blackboard Maintenance – Friday, February 1st, 2019
Blackboard will be performing scheduled maintenance on Friday, February 1st, 2019 Begin Time: Friday, February 1st, 2019 02:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, February 1st, 2019 6:00am US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) Details: Blackboard will be performing maintenance. While we anticipate no interruption in service as a result of the work, we cannot entirely rule out brief periods of intermittent connectivity […]
Blackboard Course Cartridges End of Life – December 31, 2019
We received the following article from Blackboard Article Summary: Blackboard will be ending all support for the Course Cartridges by December 31, 2019. Please review this Support Bulletin for additional information. Please be aware of the following: As of June 30, 2019, Blackboard will discontinue services for Course Cartridges and will no longer enter into […]
Blackboard Faculty – Fall 2018 – End-of-Semester Announcements
Dear VCU Faculty, As the the end of the Fall 2018 semester quickly approaches, Learning Systems would like to share some important eLearning reminders, resources and news with you. Target Date set for the next major upgrade to eLearning (Blackboard) at VCU The VCU eLearning system will be upgraded to Blackboard Learn 9.1 Q4 2018 […]
VoiceThread Workshop January 2019
Be Ready for Mother Nature with VoiceThread December 11 at 7:00pm ET – Register here Have you already missed class time because of the weather? There will always be weather events and snow days that cause closures, but you don’t have to lose a full day of instruction any longer. VoiceThread lets you be there even […]
Blackboard Production – Update Kaltura Building Block
Begin Time: Friday, November 9th, 2018 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4) End Time: Friday, November 9th, 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
LON-CAPA Is Unavailable – RESOLVED
UPDATE – 11:30am LON-CAPA is now fully functional again. Learning Systems will continue to closely monitor the system. Please notify your students that they may continue work. We appreciate your patience and cooperation. —————————————————- Original Post – 9:30am LON-CAPA is currently down. The Learning Systems team is working to resolve this issue. We will update […]