Blackboard, SharePoint and UARK Wi-Fi Affected by Weekend Maintenance
Blackboard Learn, SharePoint and UARK Wi-Fi will be affected during maintenance scheduled over the weekend.
Blackboard Learn will be unavailable for up to 24 hours on Saturday, May 27, while Blackboard Managed Hosting performs an upgrade. The upgrade will include new assignment features for students and faculty.
Also on Saturday, SharePoint will be interrupted for up to five minutes between 6 a.m. and noon during routine maintenance. On Sunday, all UARK wireless networks will be delayed for about 10 seconds from 7 to 11 a.m. as they are migrated to the new campus firewall.
For more details and up-to-date information about planned outages, visit the IT Status Monitor and follow @UARKAlerts on Twitter.
Contacts
Erin C. Griffin, content strategy and IA specialist
Information Technology Services
479-575-2901,
ecgriff@uark.edu
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