Blackboard Learn Unavailable During Upgrade Scheduled for Dec. 24-25
Blackboard corporate technical support will perform maintenance from 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 24, to 4:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 25, to upgrade Blackboard Learn. During the maintenance, learn.uark.edu will be unavailable for up to 24 hours.
Following the upgrade, there will be no change to the way students and faculty use Blackboard Learn.
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Planned outages are posted at itstatus.uark.edu/calendar. Get outage notifications and updates from IT Services at twitter.com/uaits, facebook.com/uarkITS or its.uark.edu/news.
Contacts
Erin C. Griffin, documentation/user support specialist
Information Technology Services
479-575-2901,
ecgriff@uark.edu
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