Dear colleagues, Due to concerns with Respondus Monitor’s facial detection functions, Respondus has disabled those functions for all UA users. While instructors will continue to see the face detection options in settings, they are turned off by default and cannot be enabled. Students will still be prompted to ensure proper camera positioning before starting the…
Blackboard Learn will be unavailable between 1 AM and 5 AM CST on Friday, March 5 for emergency data center maintenance. Please contact cit@ua.edu if you have questions or need instructional technology assistance.
Blackboard Collaborate Ultra will be performing scheduled infrastructure maintenance during the times listed below. February 19, 2021 1:00 AM – 5:00 AM CST February 25, 2021 1:00 AM- 5:00 AM CST **expect intermittent availability** February 26, 2021 1:00 AM – 5:00 AM CST March 5, 2021 1:00 AM – 5:00 AM CST While we anticipate…
Scheduled Maintenance, February 13, 2021: Video Recording Feedback in Blackboard Learn Assignment Grading Instructors can record video feedback to students as they are grading assignments in Learn courses. This recording feature is provided by some subcomponents of Blackboard Collaborate. Those components require maintenance over a window of a maximum of 3 hours on Saturday, February…
Today, Jan. 7, OIT will be enabling the new Box user interface for all UA users. The new interface features a sleek design and provides users with the ability to better organize content. Learn more on the Box Website.
Blackboard Operations will be performing data center maintenance Friday, Dec. 25 from 1am – 5am. A 30-minute outage is expected for UA’s instance of Blackboard Learn at some point during the maintenance window.
On December 22, 2020 at 8:00am CST, VoiceThread will be making a low-risk change to the Content Delivery Network configuration. This should not have any impact on VoiceThread availability or service speed, but we are letting you know in the unlikely event that you do experience some slowness of media loading at that time. Date:…
Panopto Cloud will be updated with new features and improvements on Saturday, Dec. 19. Panopto will be unavailable from 8pm – 11pm during the maintenance window.
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.
