Category: Announcements

Blackboard Learn will undergo a 24-hour upgrade beginning Thursday, Jan. 7 at 5pm through Friday, Jan. 8 at 5pm.

Blackboard Collaborate Ultra will undergo scheduled maintenance Nov. 6 and Nov. 12 from 1:00 a.m. until 5:00 a.m. Collaborate Ultra users will experience intermittent availability of the service during the scheduled maintenance window.

Join us for an online workshop Tues. Sept. 29 from 1pm – 2pm, to learn how instructors use Gradescope! The workshop will offer guidance on how to deliver assessments remotely and outline various assessment options to meet your immediate needs, including: Fully online assignments, no paper required Existing paper-based assignments Combining online and paper-based approaches…

VoiceThread will be unavailable Saturday, Oct. 10 from 4am – 6am during a VoiceThread database upgrade.

On Saturday, Sept. 19, myBama will be unavailable from 6 a.m. to 1 p.m. for scheduled database maintenance. Banner, Blackboard, DegreeWorks and other applications will remain available. More information is available on the OIT Status Page.

Beginning Sept. 27, Zoom will require that all meetings have a passcode or a waiting room enabled. Meetings that do not have a passcode or waiting room enabled will automatically be applied a waiting room.  Waiting rooms can be customized to fit the need and audience for your meeting. For more information, visit the Zoom…

VoiceThread will be performing a database upgrade and maintenance on Saturday, Sept. 19 from 4am – 5pm. VoiceThread will not be offline, but tools may be slow to load during this maintenance window.

September is here – time to start planning for your first course assessment of the semester! The CIT has prepared content for each course delivery mode regarding best practices for online exams and assessments. Meet our tools that can help you as you prepare your first assessment. Testing Tools: Blackboard Tests Instructors can use Blackboard…

We’re one week in to our new methods of teaching. CIT has a few resources to share as you continue to develop best practices for your course. Contingency Planning As we saw this week with a Zoom web server issue, outages occur. Although we strive to do everything in our power to prevent outages, please…

Update, Monday, Aug. 24:  On Aug. 19, 2020 at 8:04pm, a Blackboard Learn database query caused high load on the database and resulted in a service interruption. Database servers were restarted, and service was resumed by 8:50pm. Measures have been put in place by Blackboard to prevent future database service interruptions. Original Post, Wednesday, Aug.…