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Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Vista will be down for maintenance from 5am to 8am this Thursday June 20, 2013. During this window faculty and students will not be able to access Blackboard Learn or Blackboard Vista. It is possible that maintenance will be completed before the 8am deadline.  If we complete the work early, we will update this post.

Here are the items we are currently planning for this maintenance window:

1. Install kernel patches on the application nodes and the primary database server.
2. Remove extraneous configuration information from the database
3. Install McGraw-Hill Campus building block

Blackboard Learn will be down for maintenance from 5am to 8am this Thursday, June 13, 2013. During this window faculty and students will not be able to access Blackboard Learn. It is possible that maintenance will be completed before the 8am deadline; if we complete the work early, we will update this announcement to reflect that.

Completed at 5:40 AM.

Here are the items we are planning for this maintenance window:

1. Lucene Indexer fix.
2. Cloud Profiles B2 upgrade
3. Turn on cloud profiles
4. Install Pearson B2
5. Disable deprecated My Calendar module

The following maintenance has been completed.

Blackboard Learn will be down for maintenance from 5am to 8am this Thursday, June 6, 2013. During this window faculty and students will not be able to access Blackboard Learn. It is possible that maintenance will be completed before the 8am deadline; if we complete the work early, we will update this post to reflect that.

Here are the items we are planning for this maintenance window:

1. Increasing system memory size to 16G.
2. Increase session timeouts.
3. Turn on log rotation.
4. Modify the Java virtual machine configuration.
5. Enable the Apache server status page.

Update at 10:00am: The maintenance window has been completed. All features are working properly except for the new profiles. We will continue to troubleshoot with Blackboard and hope to get profiles working by our next maintenance window on June 6th.

Update at 9:15am: The maintenance has run long. We are working to resolve one minor configuration issue and should have Learn back up very soon.

Blackboard Learn will be down for maintenance from 5am to 9am this Thursday, May 30th, 2013. During this window faculty and students will not be able to access Blackboard Learn. It is possible that maintenance will be completed before the 9am deadline; if we complete the work early, we will update this post to reflect that.

Here are the items we are planning for this maintenance window:

1. Upgrade BbLearn to Service Pack 11
2. Install patch LRNSI-11203-1 (Cumulative patch set 6)
3. Upgrade several of the building blocks

** Complete @ 5:35AM.

Blackboard Learn will be down for maintenance from 5am to 8am this Thursday, May the 9th, 2013. During this window faculty and students will not be able to access Blackboard Learn. It is quite possible that maintenance will be completed before the 8am deadline; if we complete the work early, we will update this post to reflect that.

Here are the items we are planning for this maintenance window:

1. Restart the Learn application.

Completed at 5:50 AM.

Blackboard Learn will be down for maintenance from 5am to 8am this Thursday, May 2nd, 2013. During this window faculty and students will not be able to access Blackboard Learn. It is possible that maintenance will be completed before the 8am deadline; if we complete the work early, we will update this post to reflect that.

Here are the items we are planning for this maintenance window:

We are installing a patch to fix graded journal settings issue (LRNSI-7586)

Turnitin has notified us that they will be performing maintenance on their system on Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 7:00am to 11:00am Pacific Time. Here is the copied text of their announcement:

Turnitin will have a scheduled maintenance on Saturday, May 11, 2013 from 7-11AM U.S. Pacific Time (click for local time: http://ow.ly/kqcLG). Service to Turnitin and TurnitinUK may be intermittent or briefly unavailable during this period. An announcement will appear for users within Turnitin in advance of when the system will be unavailable for this scheduled maintenance.

Instructors are encouraged to modify assignment due dates either before or at least several hours after the scheduled maintenance window.

For more information on Turnitin’s service status: http://turnitin.com/en_us/support/system-status

Thank you for working with us as we improve Turnitin.

** This maintenance has been postponed due to late changes by our Linux vendor.

Blackboard Learn and Blackboard Vista will be down for maintenance from 5am to 8am on this Thursday April 18, 2013. During this window faculty and students will not be able to access Blackboard Learn or Blackboard Vista. It is possible that maintenance will be completed before the 8am deadline; if we complete the work early, we will update this post to reflect that.

Here are the items we are currently planning for this maintenance window:

1. Install kernel patches on the application nodes and the primary database server.

Maintenance completed at 6:30 AM.

Blackboard Learn will be down for maintenance from 5am to 8am this Thursday, April 11, 2013. During this window faculty and students will not be able to access Blackboard Learn. It is possible that maintenance will be completed before the 8am deadline; if we complete the work early, we will update this post to reflect that.

Here are the items we are planning for this maintenance window:

We are installing a patch to fix activity report functionality(LRNSI-7336)

Blackboard Learn will be down for maintenance from 7pm Friday April 5th, 2013 to 2am on Saturday April 6th, 2013. During this window faculty and students will not be able to access Blackboard Learn. It is possible that maintenance will be completed before the 2am deadline; if we complete the work early, we will update this post to reflect that.

Here are the items we are currently planning for this maintenance window:

Technical maintenance on Blackboard Learn infrastructure

Maintenance completed at 11 pm 04/05/2013