Blackboard 9 maintenance periods agreed for 2013 and 2014
11 Jul 2013
Schedule of dates in June/July 2013 when Blackboard will be 'at risk' or unavailable, plus early notice of scheduled downtime at Easter 2014.
Who is affected?
All staff and students.
What is happening?
Updates are required on a number of Blackboard ‘building blocks’, i.e. core tools inside Blackboard and third party Blackboard integrations to other systems/tools. The majority of these updates will be undertaken with no need for downtime, although the system will be considered ‘at risk’. The exceptions are the updates to the Assignment tool and Turnitin which will require a short period of downtime.
Blackboard will be ‘at risk’ or unavailable at the following times:
| Date: | Time: | Blackboard will be: |
| 6 June 2013 | 9am – 12 noon | Available but ‘at risk’ |
| 13 June 2013 | 9am – 12 noon | Available but ‘at risk’ |
| 27 June 2013 | 9am – 12 noon | Unavailable |
| 4 July 2013 | 9am – 12 noon | Available but ‘at risk’ |
| 11 July 2013 | 9am – 12 noon | Available but ‘at risk’ |
| 18 July 2013 | 9am – 12 noon | Unavailable |
We can also give you early notice of scheduled downtime at Easter 2014. Bb9 will be unavailable from Thursday, 10 April until Sunday, 13 April 2014. We hope that this early notification will enable you to factor in these dates when timetabling assignment submission dates and key course activities.
Further details are available in the following document:
What does this mean for you?
- Summer 2013: You will not have access to Blackboard from 9.00am – 12 noon on Thursday, 27 June and Thursday, 18 July 2013.
- Easter 2014: You will not have access to Blackboard from 4pm on Thursday, 10 April until midnight on Sunday, 13 April 2014.
Further information
Please contact:
- your eLearning team at elearning@manchester.ac.uk.