Blackboard Upgrade Notification – 8/20/18 – 7:30pm

Blackboard Upgrade Notification by The US:IT Blackboard Support Team:

The Blackboard upgrade previously scheduled for July 19th has been rescheduled for Monday, August 20th, at 7:30pm. The upgrade process will run through the night, into the morning of August 21st. Full service should be restored by 10am on Tuesday. During the upgrade, Blackboard will be inaccessible by students, faculty, and staff. Notification will be sent out to this list once service is restored on August 21st.

We apologize that this upgrade outage had to be rescheduled from its previous date. At the last minute, we were notified by Blackboard of some potential issues that could arise from the update, and instead of moving forward on the previously scheduled date, we have opted to work with Blackboard to make sure those issues were corrected in time for us to upgrade in August. As noted in the previous message, this update will fix some known issues with Blackboard, as well as add some new features that can be utilized by students and faculty.
Outage details:
Scope of Maintenance: All Blackboard related services will be unavailable
Maintenance Start: August 20, 2018 – 7:30pm
Maintenance End: August 21, 2018 – 10am