We experienced technical difficulties with the login portion of Blackboard at UTPA. The problem has been resolved, but some users experienced difficulties logging during the evening hours of October 21, 2009. We apologize for the inconvenience.
ATTENTION: Blackboard will be down on Thursday Aug 27th from 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM. We will be upgrading our institution Blackboard from 8.0.2 to version 8.0.3. This fix will not change anything that you are used to seeing in the Blackboard interface. In addition to Blackboard being unavailable Instructors will be unable to ‘Activate’ their course(s) during this time. We do not foresee any issues with this upgrade. All COLT services should be back up and running by 6:00PM on Aug 27th. Our web services will still be accessible during this time.
Currently there is an network outage in our department office. This DOES NOT have any effect on Blackboard. Our website however is currently offline until the network issue(s) get resolved. Please check back for more information.
The network connectivity issues have been resolved. You should be able to access Blackbaord without any problems.
UTPA is experiencing network problems. Information Technology staff is currently working to solve these issues. In some cases, connecting directly to our Blackboard page may alleviate the problem. Please try connecting to http://onlinelearning.utpa.edu/ directly rather than going through our department website.
We apologize for the inconvenience.
Today at 4:45PM we had blackboard issues with the mail tool. These issues have been resolved at 5:45PM and should now function as normal. Sorry for the Inconvenience.
UTPA Power has been restored. Everything is back up and functional.
The University is experienceing a power outage. We do not have a time table on when the power will be restored. Blackboard services are still available, but some components may not be available such as streaming media.
Welcome back to Summer I 2009!
The Center for Online Learning, Teaching and Technology will be having extended hours on 6/8/09 - 6/9/09. The Center will be open from 8:00AM - 7:00PM. We are located in the New Education Complex (EDCC 2.202). If you need help during off hours feel free to visit our helpdesk at http://colt.utpa.edu/helpdesk. There you will be able to find answers in our FAQs section. You can also open up a support ticket if you need to get help.
The Blackboard services will be unavailable on Saturday May 16, 2009 from 6:00am through 12 midnight. There will be some maintenance performed on the university’s data center on Saturday evening, and this maintenance will have an impact on the availability of the Blackboard servers. We apologize for the inconvenience.
