Blackboard will performing infrastructure maintenance between 1 am and 5 am on Friday 25 January. You should therefore expect a service interruption to Blackboard during this maintenance window.
Thank you in advance for your understanding.
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Blackboard service interruption, Friday, December 28th, 2018 1:00 a.m – 5:00 a.m.
Blackboard are performing scheduled maintenance on their data servers on Friday December 28th between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m. which will result in a loss of service for this time.
We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause.
The “Quick Tools” in Blackboard will be unavailable between 1:00 pm on 3 January and 12:00 noon 4 January
The “Quick tools” feature (pictured below) will be temporarily unavailable between 1:00 pm on 3 January and 12:00 noon 4 January. This is to allow us to update the tool. No other features of Blackboard are affected.
The “Quick Tools” allow instructors to post announcements to multiple courses and toggle course availability for students. These actions can still be performed within individual courses during this brief update period. See:
Blackboard planned maintenance – service at risk 9 pm Sunday 16 December to 9 am Monday 17 December
We are planning a minor update to Blackboard between 9 pm on Sunday 16 December and 9 am on Monday 17 December. We will confirm the maintenance following further testing of the update. If we can proceed with the work, there will be unavailability over this period and we apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Problems uploading submissions to Turnitin using the Safari browser
We have recently identified problems when trying to upload submissions to Turnitin using the Safari browser (version 12.0) where the upload appears to hang and never completes.
We have notified Turnitin of the error and they are working to resolve the problem. Until there is a resolution, the work around is to use a different browser, both Chrome and Firefox can be downloaded and used on a Mac.
We will update this blog with any further information.
Turnitin is now available – 14.20 25th Oct 2108
Turnitin have announced that their service is available again
Turnitin UK unavailable, 11 am 25th October 2018
Turnitin UK is currently unavailable; Turnitin have reported that their engineers are investigating the issue as a priority. We will update this blog with new information as we receive it; you can also follow Turnitin’s own status reports here.
Blackboard now available
Following the successful overnight upgrade to Blackboard the service is now available. The upgrade has improved the functionality through which students can download annotated feedback from Box View. Our Electronic Marking of Assessment support pages include guidance on how students can do this.
Blackboard planned maintenance – service at risk 10 pm Sunday 14 October to 9 am Monday 15 October
We can now confirm that, as previously announced, Blackboard will be unavailable during the period between 10 pm on Sunday 14 October and 9 am on Monday 15 October. This downtime is to allow us to perform an update that will, among other things, make it possible for students to download annotated copies of their marked assignments. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.
Make Blackboard courses available to students
As an Instructor, if under “My Courses” on your Blackboard home page you see “not currently available” or “unavailable” after the course name, this means the course is unavailable to students. Instructors can still access and edit the course.
There are two ways to make your courses available to students
- You can use the Quick Tools on your Blackboard Home page. Click Course Availability and turn the On/Off button next to the course to the required state.
OR
- Click on the course
- Under Control Panel, click on Customisation
- Click on Properties
- In section 3, Set availability, select Yes
- Click Submit
If you have any problems or queries please contact Digital-Education@bristol.ac.uk