Blackboard will be down late Friday night, May 25/early Saturday morning May 26 from 12 midnight to 4:00 am. This downtime is due to the University of Cincinnati needing to move all the Blackboard database servers onto new load balancers. This will affect all the Ohio institutions they host. The new load [More...]

University of Cincy completed the load balancer fail over tests this morning and the fail-over was successful. This means two things: There was no downtime this morning The issues with the load balancer failing-over should be resolved The jury is still out on the improvement to system performance (i.e. speed / bandwidth) but [More...]

On Friday, April 15 from approximately 6:00 AM until 6:30 AM, University of Cincinnati will be conducting a load balancer fail-over test  to determine if a long-standing issue with the load balancer has been fixed.  If the issue is fixed - which is anticipated - then we will not see any downtime.  [More...]

On March 4 at 6:30 AM, Blackboard 9.1 may be unavailable for 5 minutes. UC will be conducting a test to try and pinpoint the issues that our Blackboard 9.1 system is having when the load balancers fail over. They are going to hook up a bunch of diagnostic equipment [More...]

Just a quick note: Cassie and crew at UC made a change to the load balancer this afternoon in an effort to fix the Access Denied and Spontaneous Unavailable Content issues that have been cropping up. If you or your students experience any of these problems after 4:00 PM today, please let [More...]