Blackboard Learn Unavailable During Upgrade May 28
A message from the Global Campus
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – Blackboard Learn will be unavailable for up to 24 hours on Saturday, May 28, while Blackboard corporate technical support performs system upgrades. Maintenance on learn.uark.edu will begin at 5:30 a.m. that day.
This upgrade falls within the three-day window when students do not have classes – between the close of Summer Intersession, May 27, and the start of Summer First 5-week, 8-week, and 10-week sessions, May 31.
There will be slight changes to the Blackboard Learn environment including:
- Thread-to-thread navigation in Discussion boards – Users will be able to navigate to the next or previous thread in a discussion from the Thread Detail page without having to navigate back up to the Discussion Forum page.
- Announcement date restriction default – When creating an announcement, "Not Date Restricted" is now selected by default.
In general, contact the Blackboard Learn Help Desk at 479-575-6804 or bbhelp@uark.edu for assistance. The Help Desk is available Monday through Thursday from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m., Friday from 7 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Sunday from 6 to 11 p.m. Assistance is available in person at Gibson Annex on Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Topics
Contacts
Chris Bray, Blackboard administrator
Global Campus
479-575-7620,
cbray@uark.edu
Kay Murphy, director of communications
Global Campus
479-575-6489,
ksmurphy@uark.edu
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