Wednesday, August 10, 2011

[BB] Bb Upgrades and Maintenances

Hello Bb Users,

 

Please be informed there are some important maintenances and upgrades coming up. Here is a list and dates for them:

 

·         ARES Course Reserve Upgrade and Maintenance

 

The library Course Reserve (Ares) service will be temporarily unavailable between 1:00 pm -5pm  on Aug. 10th due to a system upgrade. 

 

 

·         SafeAssign Upgrade and Maintenance

 

Blackboard is upgrading  SafeAssign so  that it  will increase the reliability and performance of the SafeAssign product.

 

The SafeAssign service will be unavailable on Saturday August 13, 2011 from 8:00 AM US Eastern (GMT -4) until Saturday August 13, 2011 at 11:59 PM US Eastern (GMT-4).

 

During this outage, SafeAssign will be unavailable. End-users will not be able to submit papers through SafeAssign during the planned downtime and will receive an error message if they attempt to do so. SafeAssign Originality Reports will not be available to Instructors or Students during the planned downtime, nor will Instructors be able to access SafeAssign DirectSubmit.

 

 

If you have question, please feel free to contact our Blackboard help desk by calling 305-284-3949 or by email at blackboardhelp@miami.edu .

 

Sincerely,

 

Rick Ramos

Blackboard Help Desk Supervisor

305-284-3949

 

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