Category Announcements


Blackboard Collaborate Scheduled Maintenance – April 19

From Blackboard: Mar 31, 16:09 EDT Scheduled – Blackboard will be deploying our Collaborate v22.06 release to the US region (https://us.bbcollab.com), hosted in AWS (US – Virginia): us-east-1. Start Time: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 2:00 AM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time) UTC/GMT -4 hours End Time: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 6:00 AM EDT (Eastern Daylight Time)…


Blackboard Learn Service Outage

On Wednesday, March 30 from approximately 6:00 to 6:30 PM Central, Blackboard Learn experienced a service outage. Service was restored around 6:30 PM. When the incident investigation is complete, we will share its results. Contact cit@ua.edu with questions or concerns.


Respondus Lockdown Browser on managed Windows 7/8 Computers

A forthcoming security update for LockDown Browser will affect managed computers running Windows 7 or 8. Officially, these older versions of Windows aren’t supported by LockDown Browser, but Respondus does their best to accommodate these users. Students Students using Windows 7/8 with the “student edition” of LockDown Browser on their personal computers will be fine…


Zoom: March 21 update brings waiting and breakout room changes, new and enhanced features

The March 21 Zoom release brings many new and enhanced features, a complete list of which is available here: Release notes for March 21, 2022 CIT staffer Karen Burns points out that several improvements to waiting and breakout rooms have been requested by UA instructors. From Zoom: Meeting features Rename participants in Waiting Room – Windows,…


Blackboard Collaborate Scheduled Maintenance – March 10

From Blackboard: Feb 24, 14:08 EST Scheduled – Blackboard will be deploying our Collaborate v22.04 release to the US region (https://us.bbcollab.com), hosted in AWS (US – Virginia): us-east-1. Start Time: Thursday, March 10, 2022 2:00 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time) UTC/GMT -5 hours End Time: Thursday, March 10, 2022 6:00 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time)…


Blackboard Developer Portal Critical Maintenance

CIT has been informed that Blackboard will perform critical maintenance tonight, Wed., Feb. 2, 11:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. Central. This maintenance could affect the availability and/or performance of some Blackboard Learn Integrations and third-party tools. From Blackboard: Due to an unprecedented increase in usage, Blackboard will be performing database scaling to improve performance for…


Blackboard Collaborate Scheduled Maintenance – February 10

From Blackboard: Collaborate (US) Impacting Maintenance Feb 10, 02:00-06:00 EST Blackboard will be deploying our Collaborate v22.02 release to the US region (https://us.bbcollab.com), hosted in AWS (US – Virginia): us-east-1. Start Time: Thursday, February 10, 2022 2:00 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time) UTC/GMT -5 hours End Time: Thursday, February 10, 2022 6:00 AM EST (Eastern…


Turnitin Scheduled Maintenance – January 7

From Turnitin: Turnitin Scheduled Maintenance January 7th, 2022 Turnitin will take an 8 hour maintenance window on Jan 7 16:00 – 00:00 (Jan 8) PST, Jan 8 00:00 – 08:00 GMT, Jan 8 11:00 – 19:00 AEDT [go to https://tinyurl.com/bddeas2c for local time] with the following services being unavailable during these times: Turnitin and TurnitinUK (including all…


Panopto Scheduled Maintenance – January 8

From Panopto: Scheduled Maintenance Reminder Panopto Cloud Operations Status Title: Panopto NA Cloud Scheduled Downtime Planned Start: January 9, 2022 2:00AM UTC Expected End: January 9, 2022 6:00AM UTC Affected Infrastructure Components: Website, Video playback, Search, Recording / Uploading, Processing / Encoding, Integrations Locations: North America (NA) Details: On Saturday, January 8th, your Panopto Cloud…