Services Status

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Welcome to Blackboard’s Services Status page. Here you’ll find timely information on outage incidents and their resolutions. You can quickly check recorded outages for the last 90 days for all of our global regions and products.

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Global Operational
90 days ago
99.99 % uptime
Today
BB Annotate Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard Support Center Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard Community (Website) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Developer Portal - developer.anthology.com Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Cloud & Social Tools Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Mobile Services - Global Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Open Education Platform Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Partner Cloud Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - SIS Central Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
SafeAssign Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard Help (Website) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Illuminate Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - SaaS - Global Operational
90 days ago
99.86 % uptime
Today
Platform Extensions (Global) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Course Catalog Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Student Service Smart View Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Institution Page Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Universal Authentication Solution v2 (UAS) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Student Insights Toolkit v2 (SIT) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Grades Journey v2 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Reporting Framework v2 Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Americas Operational
90 days ago
99.98 % uptime
Today
Ally - Canada Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Ally - North America Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - SaaS (US) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard – SaaS Gov Cloud (US) Operational
90 days ago
99.8 % uptime
Today
Blackboard – Mobile Services - Americas Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Platform Extensions (NAHE & LAC) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Course Catalog Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Student Service Smart View Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Institution Page Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
BB Annotate Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Asia Pacific Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Ally - Asia Pacific Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Ally - Australia Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Analytics - on AWS (Asia Pacific) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard – Mobile Services – Asia Pacific Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Platform Extensions (Asia Pacific) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Course Catalog Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Student Service Smart View Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Institution Page Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Illuminate Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Europe & Middle East Operational
90 days ago
99.99 % uptime
Today
Ally - Europe Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Analytics - Managed Hosting (Saudi) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - SaaS (Saudi) Operational
Blackboard - SaaS (Europe) Operational
90 days ago
99.95 % uptime
Today
Blackboard – Mobile Services – Europe Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Platform Extensions (EMEA) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Course Catalog Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Student Service Smart View Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Institution Page Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Africa Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - SaaS (Africa) Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Institution Page Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Blackboard - Course Catalog Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Core Data Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Evaluate Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Institutional Effectiveness Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Accreditation Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Program Review Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Planning Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Outcomes Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Milestone Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Portfolio Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Course Evaluations Operational
90 days ago
100.0 % uptime
Today
Operational
Degraded Performance
Partial Outage
Major Outage
Maintenance
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No downtime recorded on this day.
No data exists for this day.
had a major outage.
had a partial outage.

Scheduled Maintenance

Bb Annotate Update (July 24 - 29) Jul 24, 2026 10:30 - Jul 29, 2026 22:30 EDT

Bb Annotate will be updated starting on July 24th via a phased roll-out. This release includes general improvements and optimizations to enhance performance and reliability. The schedule will be as follows:

APAC: Friday, July 24, 10:30 AM EDT (UTC: Friday, July 24, 2:30 PM)
EMEA: Sunday, July 26, 11:30 PM EDT (UTC: Monday, July 27, 3:30 AM)
US & Canada: Tuesday, July 28, 11:30 PM EDT (UTC: Wednesday, July 29, 3:30 AM)

Posted on Jul 22, 2026 - 08:35 EDT

Ally Maintenance Scheduled for August 8, 2026 (all regions) Aug 8, 2026 00:00-10:00 EDT

We will be performing some planned maintenance to apply necessary changes to our databases in all regions.

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.

The maintenance windows are:

Australia and New Zealand
Maintenance for institutions hosted from the Sydney (Australia) AWS Data Center will take place on Saturday 8th August from 2pm-10pm Australian Eastern Standard Time.

Asia
Maintenance for institutions hosted from the Singapore AWS Data Center will take place on Saturday 8th August from 12pm-8pm Singapore Time.

Europe
Maintenance for institutions hosted from the Frankfurt (Germany) AWS Data Center will take place on Saturday 8th August from 6am-2pm Central European Time / 5am-1pm UK time.

Canada
Maintenance for institutions hosted from the Montreal (Canada Central) AWS Data Center will take place on Saturday 8th August from 12am-8am Eastern Time / 9pm (7th August) - 5am Pacific Time.

United States
Maintenance for institutions hosted from the North Virginia (US-East-1) AWS Data Center will take place on Saturday 8th August from 12am-8am Eastern Time / 9pm (7th August) -5am Pacific Time.

Posted on Jul 21, 2026 - 15:53 EDT
Jul 22, 2026
Completed - Most upgrades are now complete. We are continuing to work through those that did not succeed.
Jul 22, 08:13 EDT
Update - Release is currently in progress. Full build number is 4000.21.0-rel.9+1234d83. 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
Jul 21, 13:40 EDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 21, 04:00 EDT
Scheduled - Blackboard will be deploying a Blackboard SaaS 4000.21.0 Maintenance Release to Test and Staging environments.

Scheduled for July 21, 2026

Jul 17, 09:39 EDT
Jul 21, 2026
Jul 20, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 19, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 18, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 17, 2026
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Jul 17, 15:17 EDT
Investigating - We are aware of errors displaying in Accreditation & Program Review when attempting to edit standards or generate Offline Reports. The Development Team are working to resolve this issue.
Jul 16, 14:18 EDT
Completed - Most upgrades are now complete. We are continuing to work through those that did not succeed.
Jul 17, 08:32 EDT
Update - Release is currently in progress. Full build number is 4000.19.0-rel.15+e0a740b. Please refer to the Anthology Support Center for more details on this maintenance release: https://support.anthology.com/s/article/Blackboard-Learn-4000-19-0-Maintenance-Releases
Jul 16, 10:28 EDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 16, 04:00 EDT
Scheduled - Blackboard will be deploying a Blackboard SaaS 4000.19.0 Maintenance Release to Production environments.

Scheduled for July 16, 2026

Jul 10, 13:38 EDT
Jul 16, 2026
Resolved - This incident has been resolved.
Jul 16, 08:57 EDT
Monitoring - AWS has implemented a fix for the underlying issue. We are observing signs of recovery, and service appears to be stable at this time. We will continue monitoring the environment and provide updates if necessary.
Jul 16, 07:24 EDT
Update - AWS continues to work on mitigation efforts, and our teams remain actively engaged and closely coordinating with them. We continue to monitor the environment and provide updates as progress is made.
Jul 16, 06:25 EDT
Update - We have identified the issue impacting a subset of customers. AWS has confirmed the issue and is actively working on mitigation efforts to reduce the impact.
Our teams are closely monitoring the situation, coordinating with AWS, and working toward full recovery. We will continue to provide updates as more information becomes available.

Jul 16, 05:40 EDT
Identified - We have identified the issue as being related to AWS CloudFront. We are actively working with AWS to restore service as quickly as possible.
Our team is closely monitoring the situation and will provide further updates as soon as additional information becomes available.

Jul 16, 04:51 EDT
Investigating - We are currently investigating an issue affecting the production environment for multiple clients.
Jul 16, 04:33 EDT
Jul 15, 2026
Completed - Most upgrades are now complete. We are continuing to work through those that did not succeed.
Jul 15, 08:26 EDT
Update - Release is currently in progress. Full build number is 4000.21.0-rel.5+a0b7d85. 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
Jul 14, 11:27 EDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 14, 04:00 EDT
Scheduled - Blackboard will be deploying a Blackboard SaaS 4000.21.0 Maintenance Release to Test and Staging environments.

Scheduled for July 14, 2026

Jul 10, 13:37 EDT
Jul 14, 2026
Jul 13, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 12, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 11, 2026

No incidents reported.

Jul 10, 2026
Completed - Most upgrades are now complete. We are continuing to work through those that did not succeed.
Jul 10, 08:37 EDT
Update - Release is currently in progress. Full build number is 4000.19.0-rel.13+efae154. Please refer to the Anthology Support Center for more details on this maintenance release: https://support.anthology.com/s/article/Blackboard-Learn-4000-19-0-Maintenance-Releases
Jul 9, 11:18 EDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 9, 04:00 EDT
Scheduled - Blackboard will be deploying a Blackboard SaaS 4000.19.0 Maintenance Release to Production environments.

Scheduled for July 9, 2026

Jul 7, 13:25 EDT
Jul 9, 2026
Jul 8, 2026
Completed - Most upgrades are now complete. We are continuing to work through those that did not succeed.
Jul 8, 09:09 EDT
Update - Release is currently in progress. Full build number is 4000.21.0-rel.3+fb051cc. Please refer to the release notes for more details on this feature release: https://help.anthology.com/blackboard/administrator/en/whats-new/august-2026-release-notes--4000-21-.html#august-2026-release-notes--4000-21-
Jul 7, 13:22 EDT
In progress - Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Jul 7, 04:00 EDT
Scheduled - Blackboard will be deploying the Blackboard SaaS 4000.21.0 Feature Release to Test and Staging environments.

Scheduled for July 7, 2026

Jul 3, 09:35 EDT