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<Title>Blackboard Down for Maintenance 10 pm- midnight, Mon 2/11</Title>
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<Summary>The UMBC Blackboard server will be down from 10 pm - midnight  Monday, Feb. 11.  This down time is outside the regularly scheduled maintenance window but is necessary in order to fix a known bug...</Summary>
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<Summary>The Retention and Graduation Rate reports located in Census Data &gt; Retention and Graduation Rates are now available.</Summary>
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    <div class="html-content">This is just a friendly reminder to the UMBC campus community of the <a href="http://www.umbc.edu/blogs/oit-news/archives/2007/09/weekly_blackboa.html" rel="nofollow external" class="bo">Blackboard weekly maintenance schedule window</a> from Friday 10 pm to Saturday 1 am. Although this maintenance window is not always utilized, DoIT Staff will now be regularly implementing server updates on the last Friday of each month, including January 25, 2013. Reminder notices about the downtime will be posted several days in advance. Blackboard instructors should take note of the weekly maintenance window, and as a general rule, refrain from assigning any work that is due on Blackboard during this time. Similarly students should understand that Blackboard may be unavailable each week from Friday 10 pm - Saturday 1 am.<br><br>We apologize for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience as we maintain these critical systems.</div>
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