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RESOLVED - Blackboard Service Disruption - Course Content Access

Access to Blackboard course content may be impacted

Update @ 6:37 PM: After a rolling restart was performed, course menus appear to be consistently stable and content is available. Users also report the error messages are no longer appearing.  At...

Posted: October 29, 2024, 11:27 AM

Resolved - Blackboard Service Disruption - System Performance

Access to Blackboard & course content may be impacted

At 6:40 PM on September 22nd, Blackboard reported a system performance issue affecting clients in the US East region. This disruption may prevent users from accessing the Blackboard platform....

Posted: September 22, 2024, 11:19 PM

All campus technology services restored

As of around 4pm all campus technology applications and services were fully restored. We verified our power backup systems were fully operational again as well.  This was almost immediately...

Posted: March 12, 2022, 6:25 PM

Slow or unresponsive departmental websites

We are currently experiencing an outage with some of our central campus web servers. This outage is affecting a number of campus websites such as library.umbc.edu, dps.umbc.edu and news.umbc.edu...

Posted: November 16, 2021, 4:20 PM

Large Internet Outage Across East Coast Around Noon Today

There are widespread reports of Internet outages across the east coast that started around 11:30am this morning. These are affecting access to various services including Gmail, Blackboard, WebEx,...

Posted: January 26, 2021, 1:21 PM

Google Widespread Outage early Monday Morning

Email, Calendar and Docs are unavailable until 8:00am

This morning Google had a widespread outage that affected all of their services, including Gmail, Calendar, Google Docs, Google Meet and Youtube. Service was quickly restored by approximately...

Posted: December 14, 2020, 8:23 AM

Restoration of Full Internet Connectivity for the Campus

I wanted to let everyone know that Friday morning, repairs were completed to the fiber optic cable that was damaged early last week.  (https://my3.my.umbc.edu/groups/doit/posts/87008) Once the...

Posted: September 29, 2019, 11:58 PM