Course Catalog May Be Unavailable
Monitoring · started Oct 15, 19:01 UTC · updated 23 days ago
A fix has been implemented and a new Blackboard 4001.2.0 version, including the fix, is being rolled out.
Is Blackboard down?
Live Blackboard status from the official status page and our own checks every 5 minutes.
Blackboard is under maintenance
Having problems with Blackboard?
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Official Blackboard status
Maintenance Service Under Maintenance (source: status.blackboard.com)
Blackboard LMS: Discussion Forum or other Assessment Visible in Course with Inherited Release Conditions
Identified · started Sep 4, 17:41 UTC · updated 30 days ago
Inherited Conditions Making Course Links Inaccessible or Visible & Impact to Other Content Items in a Course A fix introduced in the August release (4000.21.0) caused unintended issues with course links for institutions depending on how their course content is designed or structured. We reverted this fix, which means Discussions and similar items linked in areas like the Gradebook or Discussions tab may again appear outside their intended release conditions. Reference the support article for more details:…
Ongoing: Blackboard Support Maintenance (Scheduled for Oct 29)
Verifying · started Oct 29, 14:32 UTC · updated 10 days ago
Parts the official page lists with problems:
- Blackboard Support Center
Our checks
Every 5 minutes two independent servers request the Blackboard home page (www.anthology.com) without signing in. We call it an outage only when both fail to get any answer.
| Checkpoint | Result | Response time | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| Falkenstein, Germany | Answered (HTTP 200) | 455 ms | 4 min ago |
| Nuremberg, Germany | Answered (HTTP 200) | 439 ms | 4 min ago |
Some sites answer automated checks with a block page (HTTP 403) or a rate limit (HTTP 429); that still means the site is online.
Blackboard status over the last 24 hours
Checkpoint 1 (Falkenstein, Germany) Checkpoint 2 (Nuremberg, Germany) OK Problems Outage Maintenance
Problem history
Problems were recorded on 0 of the last 1 days we have checked (official status or both checkpoints failing).
Recent official incidents
- Nov 6, 2026 UTC Blackboard LMS: Few Customers are facing Intermittent outage · 8.7 h
- Oct 23, 2026 UTC Illuminate data refresh delays for LMS data (US region) · 127.6 h
- Oct 15, 2026 UTC Course Catalog May Be Unavailable
- Oct 9, 2026 UTC Institution Page unavailable for a subset of Blackboard LMS clients in Europe and APAC · 4.8 h
- Oct 8, 2026 UTC Platform Extensions v1 Applications · 18.4 h
- Sep 29, 2026 UTC Blackboard Illuminate: issue affecting worksheets & workspaces · 186.4 h
- Sep 21, 2026 UTC Status Update – Blackboard Attendance · 11.9 h
- Aug 31, 2026 UTC Ally OCR PDF Failures · 348.2 h
- Sep 4, 2026 UTC Blackboard LMS: Discussion Forum or other Assessment Visible in Course with Inherited Release Conditions
- Aug 19, 2026 UTC Blackboard Service Interruption · 46.9 h
- Aug 11, 2026 UTC Few Blackboard SaaS clients are facing Intermittent outage · 7.2 h
- Aug 3, 2026 UTC Mailings Currently Unavailable - Evaluate, Institutional Effectiveness, Milestone, Portfolio, Course Evaluations · 2.8 h
- Jul 16, 2026 UTC Accreditation & Program Review Errors · 25 h
- Jul 16, 2026 UTC Blackboard SaaS LMS Outage - Global · 4.4 h
- Jul 2, 2026 UTC Few Blackboard SaaS clients are facing performance issue · 15.9 h
What to do if Blackboard is not working
- Check the official status page and the time of the last update.
- Test another website. If nothing loads, the problem is your connection.
- Check whether your school or district has posted a notice; many outages are local to one district's setup.
- Save your work offline and submit when the platform is back; tell your teacher with a screenshot of the error.
- Try another browser or clear cookies for the site.
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