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DoIT Update on Recent Webmail, Blackboard Issues

Load Balancer "Root Cause" to be Reviewed This Semester

To the UMBC Campus Community, Over the past 7-10 days, DoIT has been troubleshooting technical issues with the Cyrus campus Webmail system and Blackboard. Initially, we saw these as separate...

Posted: January 24, 2014, 3:14 PM

Blackboard Known Issues Resolved

Creating & Reusing Assessment Issues Working Normally

1/22/14 Update We appear to be back to normal now.  1/21/14 Update Spoke too soon. We're not seeing as many cases of export/import issues (#2 below), but we are still seeing issues...

Posted: January 17, 2014, 6:14 PM

DoIT to Restart Bb System on Wed., 1/16/14 @ 10 a.m.

Known Issue with Bb Export/Import and Assessments

1/16/14 UPDATE DoIT will be taking down Bb again at 10 a.m. today to address the issues below. We anticipate this will take one hour. 1/15/14 UPDATE This morning's restart did not...

Posted: January 14, 2014, 4:57 PM

Blackboard Upgrade Completed

WT2014 courses, placement testing remain on separate server

DoIT has completed the upgrade to Blackboard version 9.1.13. Winter 2014 courses remain on a separate server and will be merged into the main production system after the start of the Spring 2014...

Posted: January 10, 2014, 11:40 AM