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Official provider statusOfficial maintenance active
Blackboard SaaS 4001.2.0: Maintenance Production Release (scheduled for Oct 29, 2026) — Blackboard will be deploying a Blackboard SaaS 4001.2.0 Maintenance Release to Production environments. Scheduled for October 29, 2026
Official provider statusOfficial maintenance active
Blackboard SaaS 4001.4.0: Maintenance Test/Stage Release (scheduled for Oct 27, 2026) — Blackboard will be deploying a Blackboard SaaS 4001.4.0 Maintenance Release to Test and Staging environments. Scheduled for October 27, 2026
Official provider statusOfficial incident active
Illuminate data refresh delays for LMS data (US region) — We are investigating an issue affecting the refresh of LMS data in Illuminate for clients in the US region. Some reports may show data that is not up to date. Our engineering team is working on a fix. Other regions are not affected. We will post an update as soon as we have more information or the issue is resolved. Thank you for your patience.
Official provider statusOfficial incident active
Course Catalog May Be Unavailable — A fix has been implemented and a new Blackboard 4001.2.0 version, including the fix, is being rolled out.
Official provider status0 individual report entries in the last 24 hours. This list includes legacy imports; external source aggregates are shown in the chart.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 80h 22mOngoing | Yes | Minor | ||
| 268h 2mOngoing | Yes | Unknown | ||
| 4h 46m | Yes | Major | ||
| 18h 21m | Yes | Major | ||
| 186h 21m | Yes | Minor | ||
| 11h 56m | Yes | Unknown | ||
| 1253h 22mOngoing | Yes | Minor | ||
| 348h 9m | Yes | Unknown |
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, 64 indexed incidents, 103 maintenance windows and 42 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 64 indexed incidents, giving each alert context beyond the current status. A recent indexed incident was “Illuminate data refresh delays for LMS data (US region)”.
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 necessary changes to our databases in our US and European regions. During the maintenance window, the Institutional Report, Course Reporting, Instructor Feedback, Configuration UI and Alternative Formats will be unavailable and bulk, onboarding and course sync processes will be paused. The maintenance windows are as follows: Europe Maintenance for institutions hosted from the Frankfurt (eu-central-1) AWS Data Center will take place on Saturday, 31 October from 8am - 12pm Central European Time / 7am - 11am UK time. United States Maintenance for institutions hosted from the North Virginia (us-east-1) AWS Data Center will take place on Saturday, 31 October from 3am - 7am Eastern Time / 12am - 4am Pacific Time.
Started Oct 31, 2026, 07:00 AM UTC · Ongoing
Blackboard will be deploying a Blackboard SaaS 4001.2.0 Maintenance Release to Production environments. Scheduled for October 29, 2026
Started Oct 29, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC · Ongoing
Blackboard will be deploying a Blackboard SaaS 4001.4.0 Maintenance Release to Test and Staging environments. Scheduled for October 27, 2026
Started Oct 27, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC · Ongoing
Most upgrades are now complete. We are continuing to work through those that did not succeed.
Started Oct 22, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 23, 2026, 03:28 PM UTC
We are cancelling the Blackboard SaaS Maintenance Release to Production environments this Thursday because there are no critical fixes available for release at this time.
Started Oct 19, 2026, 01:34 PM UTC · Resolved Oct 21, 2026, 01:15 PM UTC
Most upgrades are now complete. We are continuing to work through those that did not succeed.
Started Oct 20, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 21, 2026, 12:30 PM UTC
Most upgrades are now complete. We are continuing to work through those that did not succeed.
Started Oct 15, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 17, 2026, 03:54 PM UTC
Most upgrades are now complete. We are continuing to work through those that did not succeed.
Started Oct 13, 2026, 08:00 AM UTC · Resolved Oct 14, 2026, 12:13 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 official status page for Blackboard reports degraded performance. An unresolved official incident is listed: “Illuminate data refresh delays for LMS data (US region)”. Components reported as affected: Illuminate, Global. 0 reports were recorded for Blackboard in the last 24 hours. Last official check: .
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