Dear colleagues, I am excited to share that, as of July 1, 2019, the Faculty Resource Center will become the Center for Instructional Technology. This Center will include the existing services and staff of the FRC, as well as UA’s technology accessibility team. Our efforts to rebrand won’t result in fewer or lesser services for…
On Thursday, June 13 between 3 a.m. – 4 a.m. CDT, Blackboard will be performing emergency infrastructure maintenance at the data center that houses UA’s instance of Blackboard Collaborate. Blackboard Collaborate will be unavailable during this maintenance window.
On Friday, June 21, 2019, between the hours of 1:00 a.m. – 5:00 a.m. CDT, Blackboard will be performing maintenance on the data center that houses UA’s instance of Blackboard. While they anticipate no interruption in service as a result of the work, they cannot entirely rule out brief periods of intermittent connectivity. They will…
Blackboard Collaborate is available.
Blackboard Collaborate is currently unavailable. We will let you know once service is restored.
On Friday, June 14, 2019, between the hours of 1:00 a.m. – 5:00 a.m. CDT, Blackboard, Inc. will be performing service impacting maintenance at the data center that hosts UA’s Blackboard Learn instance. Blackboard Learn will be unavailable during this maintenance window. Blackboard Collaborate users may experience periods of intermittent inactivity during this maintenance window.
Sat., Jun 1, 6 a.m. – 8 a.m. OIT will be doing an update to myBama. Blackboard Learn users will need to log into Blackboard via the direct URL, ualearn.blackboard.com, during this update window.
Blackboard Learn will be unavailable due to a scheduled upgrade beginning Wednesday, May 8 at 8:00 p.m. until Friday, May 10 at 12:00 p.m.
Blackboard, Inc. has discontinued the Blackboard Grader mobile app effective March 29, 2019. The app has been removed from app stores and support has ceased. Users with instructor roles should download Blackboard Instructor as a replacement.
Tegrity engineers will be performing maintenance on their servers on March 31 from 12:00 a.m. to 7 a.m. CDT. There will be a 3-hour downtime window from 12:00 a.m to 3 a.m. CDT.
