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BLACKBOARD MAINTENANCE: Sunday, September 20, 2015

Posted by on September 17, 2015

IT will be performing Blackboard maintenance on Sunday, September 20, 2015, starting at midnight. Blackboard will be unavailable for approximately 4 hours between midnight and to 6:00 a.m. on Sunday, September 20. Please contact the Help Desk with questions about this or any other IT issue at 573-341-HELP (4357) or submit an online Help Request […]

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Blackboard Services Restored

Posted by on August 31, 2015

Blackboard is back to normal. Thanks for your patience as we worked through the reboot today.

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Instructors and TAs no longer able to manually enroll users in courses.

Posted by on August 26, 2015

Instructors and teaching assistants must now request that the Registrar add new users with instructor and/or teaching assistant roles. All requests to add users in these roles will now be completed by the Registrar’s office. This policy has been changed to mirror existing Registrar policy regarding student enrollments. This policy change is intended to protect […]

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TurningPoint Cloud Services Restored

Posted by on August 24, 2015

TurningPoint Cloud account services appear to be restored for the time being. However, it is possible for services to be intermittent for several hours until all required emergency maintenance has been performed. EdTech will continue to monitor the situation.

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TurningPoint Cloud Account Page is Down

Posted by on August 24, 2015

Turning Technologies’ account page is currently unavailable to students and faculty today, Monday, August 24, 2015. Servers are overloaded with requests and the website isn’t responding to user attempts to login. As a result, students are unable to register their devices or create new accounts (or both). Faculty are unable to access their TurningPoint slides […]

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Blackboard Back to Normal (mostly)

Posted by on June 15, 2015

Blackboard services are largely restored. We are seeing a few lingering effects from last week’s Blackboard problems, but they are being dealt with on a case-by-case at this time and are NOT part of any continuing problems with Blackboard. If you continue to experience problems with Blackboard, please contact the Help Desk (help.mst.edu or 573-341-HELP). […]

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Reminder to Instructors: Back Up Your Important Blackboard Course Content!

Posted by on April 14, 2015

As the halcyon days of preserving all your hardcopy teaching materials in a big metal file cabinet draw to a close, the need for stable (i.e. redundant) digital record-keeping increases. Take control of your own destiny and make a local backup copy of your most important Blackboard course content. It’s quick, easy, and helps you […]

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Tegrity will be undergoing maintenance on Sunday, March 1st from 1:00AM-5:00AM

Posted by on February 27, 2015

The Tegrity lecture capture software will be unavailable for a short period this Sunday while undergoing a software maintenance process. This maintenance is expected to solve the browser permission issues resulting from the most recent Tegrity update. Tegrity is the only service to be affected; Blackboard and Canvas services will be unaffected. If you have […]

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BLACKBOARD MAINTENANCE: Sunday, February 15, 2015

Posted by on February 13, 2015

IT will be performing Blackboard maintenance on Sunday, February 15, 2015, starting at midnight. Blackboard will be unavailable for approximately 6 hours between midnight and noon. Please contact the Help Desk with questions about this or any other IT issue at 573-341-HELP (4357) or submit an online Help Request at http://help.mst.edu.

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Fall Semester 2014 Blackboard Courses Become Unavailable on Friday, February 6th, 2015

Posted by on February 4, 2015

IT and Educational Technology will make Blackboard courses for Fall Semester 2014 “unavailable” to students at 3:00PM on Friday, February 6th, 2015. Fall Semester 2014 courses will still be visible to instructors, but students will no longer see the courses. Questions or comments can be directed to the IT Help Desk at 573-341-HELP or online […]

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