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Blackboard will be unavailable for an outage October 10th beginning at 10 PM this Friday. This outage is necessary to apply security updates to our servers. Please know the system will not be available between 10PM and 6:00 AM and no changes will be made to course content. If you have any questions or problems, please contact blackboard@richmond.edu.
Today Blackboard experienced an hour long outage due to an unexpected error. We apologize for any inconvenience this caused our users. The system is not back up and we are looking into the cause for the outage.
UPDATE: Blackboard is back up. If you experience any problems, please contact blackboard@richmond.edu for support.
Blackboard will be unavailable for a 1 hour outage July 31st at 10 PM. This short outage is necessary to apply security updates to our servers. Please know the system will not be available between 10PM and 11:00 PM and no changes will be made to course content. If you have any questions or problems, please contact blackboard@richmond.edu.