Category Known Issues


Resolved – Blackboard Slowness 8-26

Issue Users reported slowness while accessing Blackboard and loading pages and materials within Blackboard. Resolved Blackboard Support resolved the issue and performance should be back to normal. Duration: August 26, 2025 from ~ 9:25AM CST to 9:45AM CST If you are still experiencing slowness, please contact CIT for more troubleshooting.


Known Issue – Blackboard Annotate and AI Errors

Issue There is a global outage in the Anthology Microsoft Azure tenant account. This affects Blackboard Ultra courses in two ways: Duration: Started at 12:25 PM CST, August 25, 2025 Solution Anthology, Blackboard’s parent company, is aware of the issue and is working to resolve the issue. We will update this post with any new…


Resolved – Simple Syllabus Slowness

Resolved The vendor determined that peak user activity caused server performance issues. Duration: August 17, 2025 – August 20, 2025 Solution To address the high traffic during these times, Simple Syllabus support is planning improvements that include reducing the number of clients on the server UA uses to help alleviate the load-based performance issues users…


Resolved – Qualtrics Login Error

Resolved The issue with the Qualtrics login page should be resolved. If you are still experiencing issues, please clear the cache in your browser and try again. If you have any questions please contact the Center for Instructional Technology. Issue All users are receiving an error message when attempting to login to Qualtrics at qualtrics.ua.edu.…


Reminder: Turnitin & Gradescope Maintenance 8-9

Turnitin, Turnitin Draft Coach, and Gradescope will be unavailable to all users during a scheduled maintenance window. If you have any questions, please contact the Center for Instructional Tech


Resolved – Blackboard Mobile App Login Issues

Resolved 5/2 @ 8:43 AM: This incident has been resolved, and it was observed that clients are operating normally. If you are still experiencing problems logging in to the Blackboard mobile app, please contact CIT for more assistance. Users trying to access the Blackboard mobile app on Android or iOS devices are experiencing issues logging…


Resolved – Zoom services unavailable 4-16

RESOLVED: All Zoom services have been restored, if you are still having connection issues please contact the UA IT Service Desk. Zoom is experiencing an outage and it is affecting multiple services. Affected services include Zoom Cloud recordings automatically uploading to Panopto. Until this is resolved, Zoom recordings will not get imported to Panopto. We…


Reminder – Panopto Maintenance 4-12-25

Panopto will be unavailable to all users during a scheduled maintenance window. This maintenance will improve their cloud infrastructure. View Panopto’s Cloud Upgrade FAQ article for more information. If you have any specific questions, please contact the Center for Instructional Technology.