Spring 2017

• Tuesday, Jan. 31, 12:30-12:40pm (EST)

  Blackboard experienced unexpected downtime.

• Tuesday, Jan. 3, 9:00AM-2:00PM

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on Tuesday, Jan. 3, from 9:00AM-2:00PM (EST) for necessary system maintenance.

Fall 2016

• Thursday, Dec. 8, 6:00-7:00AM

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on Thursday, Dec. 8, from 6:00-7:00AM (EST) for necessary system maintenance.

• Thursday, Nov. 10, 4:00-5:00PM

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on Thursday, Nov. 10, from 4:00-5:00PM (EST) for necessary system maintenance.

• Saturday, Oct. 29, 6:50AM-9:45AM

  Blackboard is currently experiencing technical difficulties. We are actively working on the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Summer 2016

• Friday, August 12th 12AM-11:59PM

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on Friday, August 12th from 12:00AM to 11:59PM (EDT) for necessary system maintenance.

• Thursday, May 26-Friday, May 27, 11PM-3AM

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on Thursday, May 26th at 11:00PM to Friday, May 27th at 3:00AM (EDT) for necessary system maintenance.

Spring 2016

• Wednesday, Jan. 27, 1PM-2:30PM

  Blackboard is experiencing technical difficulties. We're working on getting this resolved.

• Friday, Jan. 29th, 2PM-4PM

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on Friday, January 29th from 2-4PM (EDT) for emergency system maintenance.

Fall 2015

• Monday, Dec. 28-Tuesday, Dec. 29, 12AM-12AM

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on Monday, December 28th at 12:00AM to Tuesday, December 19th at 12:00AM (EDT) for necessary system maintenance.

• Wednesday, Nov. 25-Thursday, Nov. 26, 11pm-12:30AM

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on Wednesday, November 25 at 11pm to Thursday, November 26 at 12:30AM (EDT) for necessary system maintenance.

• Monday, Sep. 8, 2:20-3:30pm

  Computing Services experienced an unexpected outage that included Blackboard.

Summer 2015

• Sunday, Aug. 16, Midnight-3:00AM

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on Sunday, August 16 from Midnight-3:00AM (EDT) for necessary system maintenance.

• Saturday, Jul. 11, 9:00pm-11:00pm

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILBLE on Saturday, July 11 from 9:00pm-11:00pm (EDT) for necessary system maintenance.

• Tuesday, May 19, 6:00pm-Thursday, May 21, 6:00pm

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE from
  Tuesday, May 19, 6:00pm through
  Thursday, May 21, 6:00pm (EST)
  for backend system upgrades and necessary maintenance.

Spring 2015

• Wednesday, Jan. 28, 6:00pm-7:00pm

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Wednesday, January 28 from 6-7:00pm (EST)
  for emergency system maintenance.

• Friday, Feb. 27, 9:00pm-10:00pm

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Friday, February 27 from 9:00–10:00pm (EST)
  for necessary system maintenance.

Fall 2014

• Friday, Nov. 21, 5:00am-6:00am

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Friday, November 21 from 5:00–6:00am (EST)
  for necessary system maintenance.

• Monday, Nov. 10, 12:00pm-1:20pm

  Blackboard is currently experiencing difficulty. We are actively working on a solution and expect it to be resolved within the hour. We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced as a result of this service outage.

• Wednesday, Nov. 5, 7:30pm-Thursday, Nov. 6, 1:30am

  Computing Services experienced an unexpected multi-system OUTAGE that included Blackboard on Wednesday, November 5 at 7:30pm until Thursday, November 6 at 1:30am (EST). We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced as a result of this service outage.

• Monday, Oct. 20, 4:30pm-5:30pm

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Monday, October 20 from 4:30–5:30pm (EDT)
  for necessary system maintenance.

• Monday, Sep. 8, 12:30am-1:30am

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Monday, September 7 from 12:30-1:30am (EDT)
  for necessary system maintenance to address the recent performance issues.

• Wednesday, Sep. 10, 12:30am-1:00am

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on Wednesday, September 10 from 12:30am-1:00am (EDT). We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience as a result of this brief outage and appreciate your patience as we work to address recent unexpected outages of the Blackboard service.
  
  Please continue to send information to bb-help@andrew.cmu.edu regarding issues you experience with the system as these are helpful for our troubleshooting efforts.

Summer 2014

• Friday, Jul. 11, 11pm-3:00am

  Blackboard will be unavailable from
  Friday, July 11 at 11:00pm until Saturday, July 12 at 3:00am (EDT)
  for necessary system maintenance.

Spring 2014

• Thursday, May 29, 9-10:00pm

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Thursday, May 29 from 9-10:00pm (EDT)
  for necessary system maintenance.

• Friday, May 23, 9:00pm - Saturday, May 24, 6:00am

  Blackboard will be unavailable from
  Friday, May 23 at 9:00pm until Saturday, May 24 at 6:00am (EDT)
  for necessary system maintenance.

• Saturday, Apr. 5, 12-12:30am

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Saturday, April 5 from 12-12:30am (EDT)
  for necessary system maintenance.

• Thursday, Mar. 13, 1:00-8:00am

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Thursday, March 13 from 1:00am - 8:00am (EDT)
  for necessary system maintenance.

• Wednesday, Mar. 12, 4:30am-1:55pm

  Blackboard is currently experiencing technical difficulties. We are actively working on the problem. Sorry for the inconvenience.

• Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2:00-4:00am

  Blackboard is experiencing intermittent periods of slow response times. We will be taking the service offline between 2:00am-4:00am (Tuesday morning) to perform necessary system maintenance to address this problem.

Fall 2013

• Wednesday, Nov. 20, 12:05-1:05am

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Wednesday, November 20 from 12:05am-1:05am
  for necessary system maintenance.

• Wednesday, Oct. 30, 11-11:30pm

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Wednesday, October 30 from 11:00–11:30pm (EDT)
  for necessary system maintenance.

Summer 2013

• Saturday, Aug. 17, 10:00pm - Sunday, Aug. 18, 4:00am

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on
  Friday, August 9 from 11-11:30pm (EDT) and
  Saturday, August 17 from 10:00pm until
  Sunday, August 18 at 4:00am (EDT)
  for necessary system maintenance.

• Friday, Aug. 9, 11-11:30pm

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on
  Friday, August 9 from 11-11:30pm (EDT) and
  Saturday, August 17 from 10:00pm until
  Sunday, August 18 at 4:00am (EDT)
  for necessary system maintenance.

Spring 2013

• Monday, Mar. 25, 10:34pm-10:50pm

  Unexpected downtime.

• Saturday, Mar. 2, 12:30-1:37am

  Interim solution to fix system issues affecting Blackboard
  
  Due to recent issues with Computing Services' back-end systems (i.e., Storage Area Network technology failures) that have been causing Blackboard to go down, we are scheduling a necessary downtime window to put into place an interim solution that should improve system performance this semester.
  
  This outage will occur from 12:30am-5:00am on March 2 (just after Midnight on Saturday morning).
  
  We apologize for the recent series of Blackboard outages and for any disruption to your academic work this may have caused. The stability and security of the Blackboard service is a number one priority for us and we are working to remediate the situation.
  See measures we are taking towards a long-term solution...

• Tuesday, Feb. 26, 6:45-8:30pm

  *** Prior to the planned downtime, Blackboard took and additional unexpected downtime on Tues., Feb. 26, from 6:45-8:30pm. ***

• Saturday, Feb. 23, 9:00am-12:30pm

  Blackboard services have been restored. We experienced an UNEXPECTED Blackboard service outage on Saturday, February 23, 2013 from approximately 9am until 12:30pm due to several back-end technical issues. We were actively working to resolve the problem during this time. The issues have been resolved and we will continue to monitor the service closely.
  
  We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced due to this unexpected downtime and thank you for your patience.

• Saturday, Feb. 16, 12:00-1:45am

  Due to recent issues with some of Computing Services' back-end systems that have been causing Blackboard to fail and become unavailable at times during the last two weekends, we are scheduling a necessary system maintenance window from 12:00am (Midnight) until 1:00am on February 16 (early Saturday). Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE during this 1-hour window. We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience as a result of this necessary outage.

• Saturday, Feb. 9, 4:30pm-7:30pm

  Blackboard services have been restored. We experienced an UNEXPECTED Blackboard service outage on Saturday, February 9, 2013 from approximately 4:30pm until 7:30pm due to several back-end technical issues. We were actively working to resolve the problem during this time. The issues have been resolved and we will continue to monitor the service closely.
  
  We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced due to this unexpected downtime and thank you for your patience.

• Tuesday, Feb. 5: 11:20pm-12:30am

  N.B.: 40 minutes of emergency downtime predated the maintenance window.
  
  A necessary system outage has been put in place from 12:00am Midnight until 3:00am on Tuesday, February 5, 2013 to resolve issues related to the unexpected service outage that occurred this past weekend. Because of broader issues affecting a set of central computing systems, some that the Blackboard service relies upon, the Blackboard system was unexpectedly unavailable on Sunday, Feb 3. Though we were able to bring the system back up, we have found additional critical system work that is now needed.
  
  We apologize for any inconvenience you may experience as a result of this unexpected downtime and thank you for your patience.

• Sunday, Feb. 3: 10:11am-4:32pm

  Blackboard is currently experiencing technical problems.
  We are actively working on a solution.

• Wednesday, Jan. 2: 12:00am-11:59pm

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Wednesday, January 2 from 12:00am to 11:59pm (EST)
  for necessary system maintenance.

Fall 2012

• Saturday, Nov. 17: 6:00am-6:30am

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Saturday, November 17 from 6-6:30am (EST)
  for necessary system maintenance.

• Thursday, Nov. 8: 10:00pm-12:00am

  Blackboard will be unavailable on
  Thursday, November 8 from 10:00pm-12:00am (EST)
  for necessary system maintenance.

• Thursday, Oct. 4: 10:00pm-11:00pm

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE on
  Thursday, October 4th from 10:00 to 11:00pm (EDT)
  for necessary system maintenance.

• Wednesday, Sep. 19: 10:00pm-11:00pm

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE tonight, Wednesday, September 19 from 10:00pm-11:00pm (EDT). This downtime is necessary to address problems which caused an unexpected outage around 10:30pm on Tuesday, September 18 which lasted for about an hour. We apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced as a result of the unexpected service outage. Thank you.

• Thursday, Sep. 6: 10:00pm-10:30pm

  Blackboard will be UNAVAILABLE tonight (9/6) from 10-11:00pm as we work to resolve the problem that Blackboard is loading slowly or not at all in some browsers. Until we can fully resolve this problem, we suggest you try these work-arounds: Use a different browser and/or remove these modules – Needs Attention, What's New, Alerts, To Do – from your "My Blackboard" page by clicking the "X" in the header bar of each. We apologize for any inconvenience you experience as a result of this issue.