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Blackboard Downtime Scheduled Wednesday Feb 4, 2 AM - 4 AM

Maintenance will resolve time zone issue

Blackboard engineers will perform a server update on Wednesday morning, February 4, 2015 from 2 AM - 4 AM. Blackboard will be offline during this period.  During this downtime, our system will...

Posted: February 3, 2015, 9:07 AM

Blackboard Maintenance Scheduled Friday Jan 30, 12:01 AM-6AM

Blackboard will be offline from 1AM - 5AM during this period

Blackboard engineers will perform infrastructure maintenance at the datacenter where we are hosted on Friday, January 30, 2015 from 12:01 AM - 6AM.  Blackboard itself will also be offline from...

Posted: January 23, 2015, 12:54 PM

January Technology of the Month

Blackboard Rubrics

A rubric is an assessment tool that identifies key criteria of assignments (i.e. essays, journals, discussion boards). Rubrics can help students organize their efforts to meet the requirements of...

Posted: January 9, 2015, 10:13 AM

Blackboard Export Process Updated to Address Known Issue

Recent maintenance performed on the UMBC's Blackboard site allows faculty to export older courses without experiencing the known issue with invalid files and import the course content to the new...

Posted: January 8, 2015, 11:45 AM

Fall 2014 Blackboard Down For Maintenance, 12-5 PM EST

Winter Courses Remain Online & Available

UPDATE: The Fall 2014 course site is back online after less than 2 hours of maintenance. The legacy UMBC Blackboard site, which currently hosts Fall 2014 courses until they are migrated to our...

Posted: January 7, 2015, 10:20 AM

Bb Communities Moving to Managed Hosting in late January

Phase 2 of Migration includes Fall 2014 Courses

During Phase 2 of UMBC's move to managed hosting, Blackboard communities will be migrated along with Fall 2014 courses. This move will take place during mid-January, after final grades are...

Posted: January 5, 2015, 2:18 PM

Blackboard Low-Impact Maintenance Scheduled Jan 9, 2-6 AM

Service Interruption Not Expected

Date: Friday, January 09th, 2015 Time: 02:00 am to 06:00 am EST On Friday, January 09th, 2015 between the hours of 02:00 am to 06:00 am EST, the Managed Hosting Engineers will be performing...

Posted: December 31, 2014, 2:32 PM

Reminder: UMBC Moving to Blackboard Managed Hosting (MH)

myUMBC Bb, blackboard.umbc.edu point to MH on 12/29/14

To UMBC Students, Faculty and Staff, As the semester and year come to a close, we wanted to share highlights from the most recent DoIT News Update. First, as previously announced,...

Posted: December 16, 2014, 11:25 AM