On behalf of BbCore (the Blackboard governance committee), we would like to let you know that on the weekend of November 15th, Blackboard will have Service Pack 13 (SP13) applied. A detailed schedule is below.

SP13 has been available in a test system for a couple of months now and has undergone testing by campus personnel. If you have not yet seen SP13, you are invited to do so by using a browser to connect to https://ut.courses.maine.edu. Log in with your usual UMS username and password.

SP13 is primarily a maintenance service pack that includes a minimal set of new features.  Among some of the new features that you will find are: enhanced exporting of test questions, and a test access log.

The detailed schedule is:

     Friday, November 15th 5pm - Blackboard is taken down. Backups of the system commence.

     Saturday, November 16th - Upgrade process begins

     Sunday November 17th - Upgrade process completes. System testing begins.

     Monday November 18th - 8am - Blackboard returns to service

Please mark these dates on your calendars, as you will have no access to Blackboard during this upgrade.