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Blackboard is experiencing an outage
Official provider statusOfficial maintenance active
Ally Maintenance Scheduled for August 28th (AP-2 Sydney Region) — We will be performing some planned maintenance to apply an update to our database instances in our AP-2 Sydney (Australia) region. During the maintenance window, the Institutional Report will be unavailable, and bulk, onboarding and course sync processes will be paused. All other Ally features, including Course Reporting, Instructor Feedback, Configuration UI and Alternative Formats may be delayed or unavailable for short periods of time during this window. The maintenance windows are: Australia and New Zealand Maintenance for institutions hosted from the Sydney (Australia) AWS Data Center will take place on Friday 28th August from 4am-6am Australian Eastern Standard Time.
Official provider statusOfficial incident active
Blackboard Service Interruption — The affected services remain stable. Blackboard continues to monitor the underlying services to ensure ongoing stability. The next update will be provided by Tomorrow ( Friday) Morning.
Official provider statusOfficial maintenance active
Blackboard SaaS 4001.0.0: Off-Cycle Maintenance Test/Stage Release (scheduled for Aug 21, 2026) — Scheduled release time has been adjusted to begin a little later on Aug. 21.
Official provider statusOfficial incident active
Service disruption for some clients in US — We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.
Official provider status0 outage reports in the last 24 hours.
Official status observations, not measured service uptime.
Official incidents, early warnings and community reports are identified separately. Early warning history covers only the last 24 hours. Dates use your time zone.
| Incident name | Duration | StartedUTC | Acknowledged | Severity |
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| 460h 11mOngoing | Yes | Critical | ||
| 460h 33mOngoing | Yes | Major | ||
| 7h 12m | Yes | Minor | ||
| 2h 45m | Yes | Minor | ||
| 24h 58m | Yes | Minor | ||
| 4h 24m | Yes | Critical | ||
| 15h 53m | Yes | Minor | ||
| 318h 35m | Yes | Unknown |
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Uptimus monitors Blackboard through its official status source and normalizes published incidents, maintenance windows and component health into one consistent service status.
This page currently includes 67 monitored components, 56 indexed incidents, 76 maintenance windows and 30 days of known history.
Uptimus is an independent monitoring service and is not affiliated with Blackboard. A healthy status does not guarantee that every user, device or region is unaffected.
Get notified when Blackboard or one of its monitored components reports a major outage or another critical service disruption. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations. The available history contains 56 indexed incidents, giving each alert context beyond the current status. A recent indexed incident was “Blackboard Service Interruption”.
Get notified about degraded performance, partial impact and smaller incidents that do not represent a complete outage. Uptimus currently tracks 67 Blackboard components: Accreditation, Ally - Asia Pacific, Ally - Canada, Ally - Europe. Alerts can be routed through the notification channels enabled for your workspace, including email, push and configured integrations.
Planned work published by the official provider.
We will be performing some planned maintenance to apply an update to our database instances in our AP-2 Sydney (Australia) region. During the maintenance window, the Institutional Report will be unavailable, and bulk, onboarding and course sync processes will be paused. All other Ally features, including Course Reporting, Instructor Feedback, Configuration UI and Alternative Formats may be delayed or unavailable for short periods of time during this window. The maintenance windows are: Australia and New Zealand Maintenance for institutions hosted from the Sydney (Australia) AWS Data Center will take place on Friday 28th August from 4am-6am Australian Eastern Standard Time.
Started Aug 27, 2026, 06:00 PM UTC · Ongoing
Scheduled release time has been adjusted to begin a little later on Aug. 21.
Started Aug 21, 2026, 11:30 AM UTC · Ongoing
Release is currently in progress. Full build number is 4000.21.0-rel.27+82dd449. Please refer to the Anthology Support Center for more details on this maintenance release: https://support.anthology.com/s/article/Blackboard-Learn-4000-21-0-Maintenance-Releases
Started Aug 20, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC · Ongoing
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Aug 18, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC · Resolved Aug 19, 2026, 01:08 PM UTC
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Aug 17, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC · Resolved Aug 17, 2026, 01:56 PM UTC
The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Started Aug 14, 2026, 06:00 AM UTC · Resolved Aug 14, 2026, 07:00 AM UTC
Most upgrades are now complete. We are continuing to work through those that did not succeed.
Started Aug 13, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC · Resolved Aug 14, 2026, 01:31 PM UTC
Most upgrades are now complete. We are continuing to work through those that did not succeed.
Started Aug 11, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC · Resolved Aug 12, 2026, 09:52 PM UTC
Downdetector public pages are led by user reports. Uptimus combines community activity with official provider incidents, maintenance windows and component health when the source publishes them.
| Comparison criteria | Uptimus | Downdetector |
|---|---|---|
| Community outage reports for Blackboard | Included | Included |
| Adaptive baseline that separates isolated reports from wider disruption | Included | Included |
| 24-hour report activity and regional outage view | Included | Included |
| One workspace for websites, provider status pages, Steam games and Android apps and games | Included | Separate product |
| Email, push and webhook alerts from the same workspace | Included | Separate product |
| Official incident updates and status timeline for Blackboard | Included | User-report led |
| Component health and maintenance windows kept separate | Included | Limited on public pages |
The current official status of Blackboard cannot be verified. The latest stored provider observation indicated an outage. 0 reports were recorded for Blackboard in the last 24 hours. Last official check: .
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