SafeAssign Service Outage: July 26, 2013
We received the following bulletin from Blackboard: Bulletin/Advisory Information: The SafeAssign service will undergo maintenance on Friday, July 26, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM US Eastern (GMT-4) to update configuration on one of the search components. Although we do not anticipate any downtime for paper submission, during this deployment window papers will not […]
SafeAssign Maintenance June 5 and June 8, 2013
We received the following bulletin from Blackboard: The SafeAssign service will be upgraded on Wednesday, June 5, 2013 from 7:00 AM to 10:00 AM US Eastern (GMT-4), and on Saturday, June 8, 2013 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM US Eastern (GMT-4). Although we do not anticipate any downtime for paper submission, during these deployment […]
SafeAssign Service Outage: May 11, 2013
We received the following bulletin from Blackboard: The SafeAssign service will be unavailable on Saturday May 11, 2013 from 3:00 AM to 6:00 AM US Eastern (GMT-4). SafeAssign is being taken offline to improve disk space and hardware. During this outage end-users will not be able to submit papers through SafeAssign during the planned downtime […]
SafeAssign Maintenance March 16, 2013
We have been notified by Blackboard Inc. that their SafeAssign service will be upgraded on Saturday, March 16, 2013 from 6:00 AM to 11:00 AM US Eastern (GMT-5). Although they do not anticipate any downtime, during this deployment window users may experience an error while using SafeAssign features. Although immediately resubmitting the action should succeed, Blackboard […]
SafeAssign
See how to submit a SafeAssignment – http://www.ts.vcu.edu/SA-Students_submit_paper.pdf SafeAssign is a plagiarism prevention service that helps educators prevent plagiarism by detecting unoriginal content in student papers. In addition to acting as a plagiarism deterrent, it also has features designed to aid in educating students about plagiarism and the importance of proper attribution of any borrowed […]
SafeAssign Maintenance Scheduled for Dec. 27
We received the following bulletin from Blackboard: The SafeAssign service will be unavailable on Tuesday December 27, 2011 from 9:00 AM until 3:00 PM. During this maintenance SafeAssign will be unavailable. End-users will not be able to submit papers through SafeAssign during the planned downtime and will receive an error message if they attempt to […]
SafeAssign Processing Delays
We received the following bulletin from Blackboard: SafeAssign is experiencing regular delays due to load on the system. In one sense, the cause of these delays is quite simple: the rate of papers being submitted exceeding the speed with which SafeAssign can process papers. Submissions go into a queue, and are processed in a first-in, […]
Notice of SafeAssign Upgrade and Maintenance
We have been informed by Blackboard Support that on Saturday, August 13, 2011 between the hours of 8:00 am and midnight SafeAssign will not be available, as they perform system-wide upgrades and maintenance. The details from Blackboard about this downtime are listed below. Please note that Blackboard WILL still be available. Only SafeAssign will be […]
Upcoming Maintenance for Blackboard SafeAssign, Sync (Bb Learn), and Scholar
We have been notified by Blackboard Inc. that they have scheduled maintenance to specific components for the upcoming weekend. Please note that the VCU Blackboard system WILL STILL BE AVAILABLE, but specific components may not be, as indicated in the announcement below from Blackboard. “Please note that Blackboard SafeAssign, Blackboard Sync (including the Blackboard Learn […]
SafeAssign and Scholar Downtime – May 22, 2009 3:00-8:00 a.m.
Blackboard has scheduled maintenance for services hosted at their network facility, for Friday, May 22, 2009 from 3:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. SafeAssign and Scholar services will not be available during this time. Please note that VCU’s Blackboard system WILL still be available. Regards, The VCU Blackboard Team