On Sunday, March 31, 2019 between the hours of 1:00 a.m. – 6:00 a.m. CDT, Blackboard will be performing service impacting maintenance at the data center that hosts UA’s instance of Blackboard. Our Blackboard Learn servers will be offline during this maintenance period.
Blackboard is reporting that some users are having issues with the Inline Grading feature for Assignments. Box is working on the issue.
Turnitin service has been restored and appears to be operating normally.
Turnitin is currently experiencing a service disruption that may prevent instructors from commenting on student submissions.
Several users have reported that they were unable to upload submissions to Turnitin. In these instances, the upload process begins but a “successful submission” message is never displayed. To correct this, users should delete their browser history and cache.
After April 30, 2019, Box will end support for Box Sync, Box Tools, Notes for Desktop and Box Drive on Mac OS X 10.12. Per Box’s OS support policy, they will maintain support for Box on the two latest versions of Mac OS X. To continue to enjoy Box support, please be sure you’re on…
On Friday, February 8, 2019 between the hours of 1 AM – 5:00 AM CST, Blackboard will be performing maintenance on the data center that hosts UA’s Blackboard system. While they anticipate no interruption in service as a result of the work, they cannot entirely rule out brief periods of intermittent connectivity.
On Friday, February 1, 2019 between the hours of 1-5 a.m. CST, Blackboard will be performing maintenance on the data center that hosts UA’s Blackboard system. While they anticipate no interruption in service as a result of the work, they cannot entirely rule out brief periods of intermittent connectivity.
Blackboard, Inc. has end-of-lifed its Blackboard Instant Messenger application effective December 31, 2018. Although there is not an exact replacement for Blackboard IM, Zoom is a tool that may be of interest to you. You can find more information on Zoom at https://oit.ua.edu/software/zoom/.
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.
