Category Known Issues


Collaborate Ultra Maintenance on July 9, 2020

Blackboard will be performing scheduled infrastructure maintenance for Collaborate Ultra on Thursday, July 9, 2020 from 1:00 AM – 5:00 AM. Collaborate Ultra customers will experience intermittent availability during this time.


Panopto Downtime – June 27, 2020

The Panopto cloud will be updated on June 27th, 2020.  This update will require approximately 3 hours of downtime beginning at 8pm Central Time. During the downtime, users will not be able to access Panopto videos, and any attempts to upload new recordings will result in a “Server unable to connect” message.


Respondus Monitor Processing Delays

Respondus Monitor encountered issues processing the proctoring data and videos for a number of exams taken on Thursday 4/30 and Friday 5/1. A patch for the problem has been created and the affected exam sessions were scheduled to be reprocessed over the weekend, as soon as the patch clears QA. Exams using Respondus Monitor since…


Resolved: Qualtrics Degraded Performance 4/21

Resolved: The issues impacting the SJC1 region are now resolved following changes by an upstream networking provider — Qualtrics is currently investigating connectivity issues for the eastern part of the US. For more information: https://www.qualtrics.com/status/


Resolved: Turnitin Service Disruption 4/21

Resolved – Due to an unexpected network issue, you may have been unable to access Turnitin or iThenticate today. Some users may have been able to access these services but would have experienced degraded performance. Users accessing Turnitin via integrations were also impacted by this disruption. Service has been restored. Turnitin encountered a disruption between…


Panopto Partial Service Disruption

Panopto is investigating increased latencies and error rates. Some students are reporting error messages referencing technical difficulties. More on the Partial Service Disruption from Panopto- http://trust.panopto.com/ Update, April 2, 8:43 am: After overnight maintenance, Panopto is fully operational.


March 20 – Datacenter Maintenance – Service Interruption Possible

On Friday, March 20th, 2020, between the hours of 1:00 a.m. – 5:00 a.m. CDT, Blackboard Cloud Services will be performing network maintenance on the data center that houses UA’s Blackboard Learn instance. While they anticipate no interruption in service as a result of the work being performed, they cannot entirely rule out periods of…


Blackboard Collaborate and MacOS Catalina

MacOS users that have upgraded their operating system to Catalina (10.15) are unable to use their webcam in Blackboard Collaborate Original sessions. After upgrading to MacOS Catalina (10.15), users will receive a “No video sources found” error when attempting to use their webcam.


Blackboard Learn Account Issue

Update – Last week, during a UA-initiated technical process, an incident occurred that deleted the Blackboard Learn accounts for about 200 students. The enrolled students have been added back into their spring 2020 Blackboard Learn courses, but we are still attempting to recover access to their course work for this semester. All affected instructors and…