Maintenance Alerts
Adobe Connect Scheduled Maintenance - Sunday September 8, 2019 11 PM to Monday September 9, 2019 1 AM - Completed
On Sunday, September 8, 2019 the Adobe Connect application will be UNAVAILABLE to upgrade the Adobe Connect storage system.
Adobe Connect Scheduled Maintenance - Sunday September 1, 2019 11 PM to Monday September 2, 2019 5 AM - Completed
On Sunday, September 1, 2019 the Adobe Connect application will be intermittently UNAVAILABLE as Adobe Connect will be upgrading to Adobe Connect 10.5.
Panopto Scheduled Maintenance - Saturday August 10, 2019, 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm - Completed
On Saturday, August 10, 2019 the Panopto application will be UNAVAILABLE as Panopto will be making a number of updates to the Panopto Cloud infrastructure to increase performance and scalability. These updates will require downtime.
Potential eLearning Sign-On Service Outage 6am-7am 7/17/19 - Completed
This is scheduled maintenance to the Shibboleth (IDP) application which could impact the sign-on process for eLearning/Blackboard. This will occur on Wednesday 07/17/2019 between 6 AM and 7 AM.
Turnitin Scheduled Maintenance July 13, 2019 - Completed
On Saturday, July 13, 2019 the Turnitin application will be UNAVAILABLE for scheduled maintenance. This maintenance will require downtime from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm CDT. During this time you will not be able to access Turnitin.
Service Outage affecting eLearning Login - Completed
On Wednesday, June 26th, 2019 from 06:00 AM - 06:10 AM CDT, UNI IT will be rebooting the Shibboleth servers to apply important updates. This will result in a 5 - 10 minute window where UNI users may be unable to log into UNI eLearning Suite of Tools (Blackboard Learn, Panopto, etc.).
Blackboard Learn UNAVAILABLE for AWS Maintenance - WAS NOT COMPLETED BY AWS - Completed
June 19, 2019 Update from Blackboard Support:
Due to unforeseen circumstances, AWS has cancelled the upgrade to Postgres 9.6.11 for all of their clients at this time. More details will follow when we have more information.
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The Blackboard Learn System will be unavailable for a few minutes on Tuesday, June 18, 2019 between 3-3:30 a.m. CDT for a Postgres database upgrade. This is an automatic upgrade performed by AWS (Amazon Web Services - the cloud computing service that hosts Blackboard Learn SaaS environments) to apply a critical security patch to upgrade the Postgres database from version 9.6.9 to version 9.6.11. It is recommended that end-users do not perform critical work (create content, take tests, submit assignments, grade, etc.) during this maintenance period.
Note: This was originally schedule for Tuesday, June 11, 2019 between 3-3:30 a.m. CDT; however AWS did NOT perform the maintenance and rescheduled it for June 18, 2019.
Panopto Scheduled Maintenance - Completed
On Saturday, June 22, 2019 the Panopto application will be UNAVAILABLE as the Panopto cloud site will be upgraded to the latest release.. This upgrade will require downtime from 8:00 pm to 11:00 pm CDT. During this time you will not be able to access recordings on the Panopto server and any attempts to upload will result in a "Server unable to connect" message.
Blackboard Learn UNAVAILABLE for System Db Maintenance - 11 p.m. CST Dec 25 - 3 a.m. CST Dec 26, 2018 - Completed
The Blackboard Learn System will be UNAVAILABLE from 11 p.m. CST Tuesday, December 25, 2018 through 3 a.m. CST Wednesday, December 26, 2018 while Blackboard Support performs maintenance and an upgrade of the database.
Turnitin Maintenance January 5, 2019 - Completed
On Saturday, January 5, 2019 the Turnitin application will be UNAVAILABLE for scheduled maintenance. This maintenance will require downtime from 10:00 am to 6:00 pm CDT. During this time you will not be able to access Turnitin.
Panopto Scheduled Maintenance - Saturday December 15, 2018 from 8 pm to 12 am - Completed
On Saturday, December 15, 2018 the Panopto application will be UNAVAILABLE for scheduled maintenance to upgrade to the latest version. This upgrade will require downtime from 8:00 pm to 12:00 am CDT. During this time you will not be able to access recordings on your server, and any attempts to upload from clients will result in a "Server unable to connect" message.
CatID/eBiz Login Service Outage affecting eLearning Login - Completed
On Saturday, September 29th, 2018 from 06:00 AM - 08:00 AM CDT, IT-AIS will be conducting patching efforts to multiple production infrastructure databases and application services, primarily those responsible for CatID services. This will result in a two (2) hour window where UNI users will be unable to log into Blackboard Learn, Panopto, and other systems using CatID credentials.
Lynda.com 500 error - Completed
Some users are currently experiencing a 500 error when trying to access lynda.com videos through https://lynda.uni.edu/login. We will let you know when this issue is resolved.
Panopto Scheduled Maintenance - Saturday August 11, 2018 6 pm to 10 pm CDT - Completed
On Saturday, August 11, 2018 the Panopto application will be UNAVAILABLE for scheduled maintenance. This upgrade will require downtime from 6:00 pm to 10:00 pm CDT. During this time you will not be able to access recordings on your server, and any attempts to upload from clients will result in a "Server unable to connect" message.
UNI eLearning System Extended Maintenance for Migration to the Cloud (SaaS) - Completed
UNI's existing on-campus Blackboard Learn System (eLearning) will be fully migrated to Blackboard Inc.'s cloud based offering known as SaaS (Software as a Service) from August 2-7, 2018. On August 1, 2018 at 11:59 p.m. CDT, UNI's Blackboard Learn System will be turned OFF for migration and will NOT be available to users during this extended maintenance period. For this migration, we will be doing a full migration of data: meaning all the existing content and entire database records will be moved to SaaS. For more information, please visit our Blackboard Learn SaaS webpage.