Category Announcements


Feb. 1 – Collaborate Web Conferencing Maintenance

On Friday, Feb. 1 between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. CST, Blackboard will be conducting maintenance on the data center that hosts Blackboard Collaborate. Users should be aware that intermittent connectivity is possible during this infrastructure maintenance window.


TurningPoint Server Maintenance – December 29-30

TurningPoint will be performing scheduled maintenance on all TurningPoint servers starting on Saturday, Dec. 29 at 10 p.m. and continuing until Dec. 30 at 1 a.m. CST.  While this is happening, TurningPoint will be down and you will not be able to run a session or access your account.


Tegrity Maintenance – December 30th 2018

Tegrity will undergo scheduled maintenance on Sunday, December 30th between 3am and 10am. Tegrity service may be unavailable during this time.


January 5th, 2019 – Turnitin Maintenance

On January 5th, 2019 Turnitin will be unavailable from 10am to 6pm. During this time, Turnitin will be upgrading hardware and implementing software updates intended to improve performance.


2019 Faculty Technology Showcase: Call for Nominations

The 2019 Faculty Technology Showcase will be held on Friday, February 22nd in room A232 Gordon Palmer Hall. The call for nominations is now open! The goal of the Faculty Technology Showcase is to provide an opportunity for our community to share with one another how technology is being used across campus. Please nominate your…


Tegrity Maintenance – Nov. 11th

Maintenance is scheduled to take place on Sunday, November 11, 2018, between midnight-2am CST. Access to Tegrity services will not be available during this time


Tegrity Service Disruption – Nov. 5

There was a disruption to the Tegrity service between the hours of 8:45 and 10:45 PM CST. During this time, users were unable to access their Tegrity instance and would receive an error when uploading recordings. Service was restored around 10:45 PM CST.


Box Unavailable

Box services are currently unavailable. Box is investigating – https://status.box.com/


Temporary Halt to New Blackboard Integrations

The UA Blackboard Learn team has made the decision to halt all pending integrations until an audit of our existing integrations and the potential issues they may cause is complete. Early in the Fall 2018 semester, UA’s Blackboard Learn system went completely down twice in one week. The downtimes were minimized to about 30 minutes…