Turnitin will take a 5 hour maintenance window on April 20 from 9:00 AM CDT to 2:00 PM CDT. During the downtime, you will not be able to utilize the Turnitin Tool, including Turnitin assignment submissions, processing and grading, in Blackboard Learn.
Scheduled Maintenance
Saturday, April 20, 2024 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM
Maintenance Alerts
Potential eLearning Sign-On Service Outage 6am-7am 7/17/19 - Completed
Wednesday, July 17, 2019 6:00 AM to 7:00 AM
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
Saturday, July 13, 2019 10:00 AM
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
Wednesday, June 26, 2019 6:00 AM to 6:15 AM
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
Tuesday, June 18, 2019 3:00 AM to 3:30 AM
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
Saturday, June 22, 2019 8:00 PM to 11:00 PM
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
Tuesday, December 25, 2018 11:00 PM to Wednesday, December 26, 2018 3:00 AM
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
Saturday, January 5, 2019 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
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
Saturday, December 15, 2018 8:00 PM to Sunday, December 16, 2018 12:00 AM
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
Saturday, September 29, 2018 6:00 AM to 8:00 AM
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
Monday, September 10, 2018 1:15 PM to 11:00 PM
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
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 2:30 PM
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
Thursday, August 2, 2018 12:00 AM to Saturday, August 4, 2018 11:00 AM
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.
Panopto Scheduled Maintenance - Saturday July 28, 2018 9 pm to 12 am CDT - Completed
Thursday, July 26, 2018 3:45 PM to 4:45 PM
On Saturday, July 28, 2018 the Panopto application will be UNAVAILABLE for scheduled maintenance. This upgrade will require downtime from 9:00 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.
UNI eLearning System login will be unavailable - Completed
Saturday, March 3, 2018 6:00 AM to 9:00 AM
On Saturday, March 3, 2018 from 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. CST, UNI users will be unable to log into the UNI eLearning (Blackboard Learn) System while maintenance is performed to patch multiple production infrastructure databases and application services that are responsible for CatID services.
Turnitin will be unavailable - Completed
Saturday, March 17, 2018 10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
On Saturday March 17, 2018 from 10 AM to 4 PM CDT, the Turnitin Application in eLearning (Blackboard Learn) will be unavailable to UNI users while maintenance is performed. This maintenance will include several hardware updates and performance improvements.