We received the following alert from Blackboard:
Blackboard will be performing maintenance during the regularly scheduled maintenance window on Friday, August 18th, 2017
Begin Time: Friday, August 18th, 2017 02:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4)
End Time: Friday, August 18th, 2017 06:00 US Eastern (UTC/GMT-4)
Details: During this maintenance window, VCU will NOT experience an interruption to the production Blackboard services, however we are notifying you just in case you experience any brief intermittent connectivity.
To Check Status: Please refer to the Blackboard Managed Hosting Status Page for the most up-to-date system status.