VCU - Technology Services

We have been notified by Blackboard Inc. that they have scheduled maintenance to specific components for the upcoming weekend. Please note that the VCU Blackboard system WILL STILL BE AVAILABLE, but specific components may not be, as indicated in the announcement below from Blackboard.

"Please note that Blackboard SafeAssign, Blackboard Sync (including the Blackboard Learn iPhone application) and Blackboard Scholar will be intermittently unavailable while undergoing maintenance on Saturday, October 10th and Sunday, October 11th. This maintenance window is to update the hardware and network infrastructure of these products. The expected outcomes of this update are:

• Increased capacity for all of these services
• Improved performance of these applications
• Increased stability

The systems are expected to be intermittently unavailable from morning (EST) on October 10th through morning (EST) on October 11th. Please notify your institution of this period of the unavailability for these services. Users will not be able to submit assignments to Blackboard SafeAssign, utilize the notification capabilities as part of Blackboard Learn for iPhone application, or access their Blackboard Scholar bookmarks during this maintenance period.

While we realize that no time is particularly convenient for temporarily removing these capabilities from your implementation, this proactive maintenance will improve the stability, capacity and performance of these applications and services following this downtime."