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  <Title>Changes to the Blackboard WT2013 Server</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><a href="http://doit.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">DoIT</a> staff will be making several changes to the <a href="http://bb-winter.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">WT2013 Bb server</a> in preparation for <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/news/15977" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">archiving/ restoring the WT2013 courses</a> to the <a href="http://blackboard.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC Bb production server</a>.  All WT2013 instructors have been notified of these changes by email, and will be reminded again prior to Spring Break. Please make note of these changes as they will affect your ability to access WT2013 courses.<br><br><ol><li>As of 2/25 anyone needing to access the <a href="http://bb-winter.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">WT2013 Bb server</a> from off campus needs to <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/boAc" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">log in to the VPN</a> first.</li><li>The <a href="http://bb-winter.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">WT2013 Bb server</a> will be taken <strong>completely offline</strong> on Friday, 3/15.</li><li>WT2013 courses will be restored on the <a href="http://blackboard.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">UMBC Bb production server</a> by Friday, March 29.  Please note that there will be approximately two weeks when WT2013 courses will be completely unavailable to faculty and students.  We encourage you to <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/b4B1AQ" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">download a copy of your grade center</a>, and any other content that you might need to your local machine. If instructors have students finishing incomplete grades, and students must have continuing access to their WT2013 course over spring break, the instructors should put in an <a href="http://rt.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">RT ticket request</a> prior to Thursday, March 14.</li></ol><p>Thank you for your patience during this transition.<br></p></div>
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  <Summary>DoIT staff will be making several changes to the WT2013 Bb server in preparation for archiving/ restoring the WT2013 courses to the UMBC Bb production server.  All WT2013 instructors have been...</Summary>
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  <PostedAt>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:26:28 -0500</PostedAt>
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  <Title>Known Issue:  Dropped Students Still Available in Bb Classes</Title>
  <Tagline>Some students not made unavailable after dropping class</Tagline>
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    <div class="html-content"><a href="http://doit.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">DoIT</a> staff would like to report a known issue involving student availability in <a href="http://blackboard.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Bb courses</a>.  Over the past several weeks <a href="http://doit.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">DoIT </a>has received reports from students who have officially dropped a course in Peoplesoft, but who still remain as available in the corresponding Bb class.  This has not affected all students who have dropped classes.  <a href="http://doit.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">DoIT</a> staff have been working with <a href="http://blackboard.com" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard</a> in order to determine the cause of this issue, and believe that an internal Bb system process was hung, preventing some updates from Peoplesoft from being processed.  Restarting the Bb servers seems to have rectified the issue.  <a href="http://doit.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">DoIT </a>staff are continuing to monitor the situation, and are looking at ways to prevent this from happening in the future.<br><br>Bb Instructors are encouraged to compare their <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/sQjcAQ" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">official course rosters in Peoplesoft</a>, with the <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/sYRaAQ" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">list of users enrolled in their Bb courses</a>.  If they find students who have officially dropped the course but who are still listed in Bb, they can either <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/DIJaAQ" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">change the student's availability to "unavailable"</a>, or they can <a href="https://wiki.umbc.edu/x/Sw3cAQ" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">remove them completely from the Bb course</a>.  If students find they are still listed in a Bb course that they have officially dropped, they should <a href="http://rt.umbc.edu" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">submit an RT ticket </a>and ask to be removed.<br></div>
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  <Summary>DoIT staff would like to report a known issue involving student availability in Bb courses.  Over the past several weeks DoIT has received reports from students who have officially dropped a...</Summary>
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  <PostedAt>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:31:28 -0500</PostedAt>
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    <Title>Bb Collaborate Down for Maintenance 10 pm 3/2 - 4 am 3/3</Title>
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          <div class="html-content">Blackboard Collaborate has published the following notice about their server maintenance scheduled for Saturday, March 2 at 10 pm.  UMBC faculty and students should note that both sessions and recordings may be unavailable during this time.<br>--------------<br><br>
          
          <p>Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing will be undergoing IP renumbering during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Saturday, March 2, 2013.  
          Please read <a title="article 2798" href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&amp;task=knowledge&amp;questionID=2798" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">KB article 2798</a></p>
          <p><strong>Begin Time: </strong>Saturday, March 2, 2013  10:00 PM (US Eastern / GMT-5) <br></p><p><strong>End Time:</strong> Sunday, March 3, 2013 4:00 AM (US Eastern / GMT-5)</p>
          <p><strong>Duration:</strong> 6 hours</p>
          <p><strong>Affected Users: </strong>All Web Conferencing &amp; Elluminate Live! Users<br></p>
          <p><strong>Details:</strong>
           During the upcoming maintenance, Blackboard Collaborate Web Conferencing and Elluminate Live! North American Hosted sessions and recordings will be intermittently unavailable.  System administrators should review <a title="article 2798" href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&amp;task=knowledge&amp;questionID=2798" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">KB article 2798</a> for important details regarding potential changes that may require a CMS restart and network updates.</p>
          <p><strong>Updates to this article can be found at:</strong> <br><a href="http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&amp;task=knowledge&amp;questionID=1857" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">http://support.blackboardcollaborate.com/ics/support/default.asp?deptID=8336&amp;task=knowledge&amp;questionID=1857</a> <br></p></div>
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    <Summary>Blackboard Collaborate has published the following notice about their server maintenance scheduled for Saturday, March 2 at 10 pm.  UMBC faculty and students should note that both sessions and...</Summary>
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    <PostedAt>Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:11:41 -0500</PostedAt>
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  <NewsItem contentIssues="true" id="24414" important="false" status="posted" url="https://dev.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/posts/24414">
  <Title>DoIT &amp; Blackboard Sponsor March 8 Focus Groups</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><p>UMBC is always looking for ways to gather feedback from our Faculty and Students. We would like to invite you to join a focus group on Friday March 8<sup>th</sup> to discuss your experience with Blackboard, use of technology on campus and customer service preferences.</p><ul><li><a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/events/16810" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Faculty Focus Group RSVP</a> (10:30 a.m.)</li><li><a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/events/16811" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Student Focus Group RSVP</a> (1 p.m.)</li></ul><p>These focus groups are by invitation only and will last up to 75 minutes.  </p></div>
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  <Title>Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm  2/22 to 1 am 2/23</Title>
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    <div class="html-content"><strong>UPDATE:</strong> Bb service was restored by 11:20 pm 2/22.<br>-----------<br>The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm Friday 2/22 to 1 am Saturday 2/23.  This down time is during the <a href="http://my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/news/22795" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">regularly scheduled maintenance window</a> and is necessary for DoIT staff to perform routine server maintenance. We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience that this down time may cause.</div>
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  <PostedAt>Mon, 18 Feb 2013 09:01:13 -0500</PostedAt>
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    <Title>Known Issue: Blackboard System Being Restarted 2/16</Title>
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    <Title>Blackboard Offering 2 New Webinars on Gradecenter &amp; Rubrics</Title>
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  <Title>Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm- midnight, Mon 2/11</Title>
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  <Title>Blackboard Weekly Maintenance Schedule Reminder</Title>
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    <div class="html-content">This is just a friendly reminder to the UMBC campus community of the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/oit-news/archives/2007/09/weekly_blackboa.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard weekly maintenance schedule window</a> from Friday 10 pm to Saturday 1 am. Although this maintenance window is not always utilized, DoIT Staff will now be regularly implementing server updates on the last Friday of each month, including January 25, 2013. Reminder notices about the downtime will be posted several days in advance. Blackboard instructors should take note of the weekly maintenance window, and as a general rule, refrain from assigning any work that is due on Blackboard during this time. Similarly students should understand that Blackboard may be unavailable each week from Friday 10 pm - Saturday 1 am.<br><br>We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we maintain these critical systems.</div>
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  <Title>Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm 1/25 to 1 am 1/26</Title>
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