On Wednesday, March 13, 2013, Blackboard Learn was updated to enhance performance and the stability of the learning environment. Between the hours of 12:01am and 5:00am, Blackboard may have been unavailable due to this downtime. If you were affected by this downtime or have any questions or concerns, please contact our help desk at 956-665-5327.

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Description: Blackboard Learn will be unavailable due to Emergency Maintenance Downtime: Monday, Feb. 11,  2013 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM Contact Information: COLTT Help Desk 956-665-5327 colthelp@utpa.edu Hours of Operation: Monday – Thursday 7:30am-8:00pm Friday 7:30am-6:00pm

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On Friday, October 5th, 2012 between the hours of 01:00 am to 05:00 am, Blackboard will undergo maintenance. This maintenance is not expected to be service impacting, however we are notifying you just in case you experience any intermittent connectivity for few minutes during this maintenance window. If you experience problems connecting to Blackboard outside [...]

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At 4:00pm Sept. 3rd, all Blackboard learn services became fully operational. The issue causing intermittent user log-in failures and tool failures have been corrected. We are currently monitoring the Blackboard Learn service to ensure all the tools are working properly and users continue to have access. If you continue to experience problems accessing or using [...]

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Blackboard learn will be down for maintenance from 9:00pm Sunday, Sept. 2nd to 9:30am Monday, Sept. 3rd. Blackboard support will be installing an update to the software during this time. Blackboard Learn will be unavailable to students and faculty during this maintenance window. If you experience problems connecting to Blackboard outside of this time frame, please [...]

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Blackboard has re-scheduled the maintenance to our data storage environment from Friday morning to Sunday, June 10th, 2012 at 1am-5am Central time (2am-6am ET). During this maintenance window, users may not be able to access Blackboard Campus Edition. Blackboard Learn should not be affected. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact our help [...]

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The Center for Online Learning, Teaching and Technology will be hosting Bill Joyce from Turning Technologies on April 24, 2012. Mr. Joyce will be providing Informational Demos and Training for the Turning Technologies Response cards (clickers). We are having two informational sessions for faculty wishing to get information about the Turning Technologies student response cards [...]

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SafeAssign Performance Advisory: Clients may experience turnaround times for papers submitted at 3-5 days from the time of submission. We have not been officially warned of extreme delays, but our experience from the past two semesters provide evidence that this is a possibility for the end of the Spring 2012 semester. At the end of [...]

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The myUTPA portal at my.utpa.edu will be down for maintenance starting March 14th, Wednesday, at 5:00 p.m. through March 16th, Friday, at 5:00 p.m. Alternate links to log in to services such as Blackboard and ASSIST will be provided on the my.utpa.edu homepage during this downtime. If you experience any problems accessing Blackboard, please contact our [...]

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The Blackboard Learning Management System became unavailable around 2:30pmon March 6, 2012. Users will not be able to connect to Blackboard until services are restored. We will update our blog with news as it becomes available. Blackboard Learn is not affected by this issue.

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