Blackboard outage history and status
Is Blackboard down right now?
Partly
Partially Degraded Service Affected: Illuminate (degraded performance) Official status as of Oct 26, 2026, 16:17 UTC (refreshing…)
Open incidents
97.82%
uptime, 90 days
11
incidents, 90 days
15 h 09 min
median time to fix
Oct 23, 2026
last incident
Blackboard components
Institutional Effectiveness
- Accreditation Operational
- Program Review Operational
- Planning Operational
- Outcomes Operational
Asia Pacific
- Ally - Asia Pacific Operational
- Ally - Australia Operational
- Analytics - on AWS (Asia Pacific) Operational
- Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific) Operational
- Blackboard – Mobile Services – Asia Pacific Operational
- Platform Extensions (Asia Pacific) Operational
- Blackboard - Course Catalog Operational
- Student Service Smart View Operational
- Blackboard - Institution Page Operational
- Illuminate Operational
Americas
- Ally - Canada Operational
- Ally - North America Operational
- Blackboard - SaaS (US) Operational
- Blackboard – SaaS Gov Cloud (US) Operational
- Blackboard – Mobile Services - Americas Operational
- Platform Extensions (NAHE & LAC) Operational
- Blackboard - Course Catalog Operational
- Student Service Smart View Operational
- Blackboard - Institution Page Operational
- BB Annotate Operational
Europe & Middle East
- Ally - Europe Operational
- Analytics - Managed Hosting (Saudi) Operational
- Blackboard - SaaS (Saudi) Operational
- Blackboard - SaaS (Europe) Operational
- Blackboard – Mobile Services – Europe Operational
- Platform Extensions (EMEA) Operational
- Blackboard - Course Catalog Operational
- Student Service Smart View Operational
- Blackboard - Institution Page Operational
Global
- BB Annotate Operational
- Blackboard Support Center Operational
- Blackboard Community (Website) Operational
- Developer Portal - developer.anthology.com Operational
- Blackboard - Cloud & Social Tools Operational
- Blackboard - Mobile Services - Global Operational
- Blackboard - Partner Cloud Operational
- Blackboard - SIS Central Operational
- SafeAssign Operational
- Blackboard Help (Website) Operational
- Illuminate Degraded performance
- Blackboard - SaaS - Global Operational
- Platform Extensions (Global) Operational
- Blackboard - Course Catalog Operational
- Student Service Smart View Operational
- Blackboard - Institution Page Operational
- Universal Authentication Solution v2 (UAS) Operational
- Student Insights Toolkit v2 (SIT) Operational
- Grades Journey v2 Operational
Africa
- Blackboard - SaaS (Africa) Operational
- Blackboard - Institution Page Operational
- Blackboard - Course Catalog Operational
- Core Data Operational
- Evaluate Operational
- Milestone Operational
- Portfolio Operational
- Course Evaluations Operational
Blackboard outage history
| Started (UTC) | Incident | Impact | Duration |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 23, 2026, 14:40 UTC | Illuminate data refresh delays for LMS data (US region) Illuminate | Minor | no update since Oct 23, 2026 |
| Oct 15, 2026, 19:01 UTC | Course Catalog May Be Unavailable Blackboard - Course Catalog | No impact | no update since Oct 16, 2026 |
| Oct 9, 2026, 11:23 UTC | Institution Page unavailable for a subset of Blackboard LMS clients in Europe and APAC Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific), Blackboard - SaaS (Europe) | Major | 4 h 46 min |
| Oct 8, 2026, 17:04 UTC | Platform Extensions v1 Applications Platform Extensions (Global) | Major | 18 h 21 min |
| Sep 29, 2026, 21:14 UTC | Blackboard Illuminate: issue affecting worksheets & workspaces Illuminate | Minor | 7 days 18 h |
| Sep 21, 2026, 15:42 UTC | Status Update – Blackboard Attendance Blackboard - SaaS (Africa), Blackboard - SaaS (US), Blackboard - SaaS (Saudi), Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific), Blackboard - SaaS (Europe) | No impact | 11 h 56 min |
| Sep 4, 2026, 17:41 UTC | Blackboard LMS: Discussion Forum or other Assessment Visible in Course with Inherited Release Conditions Blackboard - SaaS (Africa), Blackboard - SaaS (US), Blackboard - SaaS (Saudi), Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific), Blackboard - SaaS (Europe), Blackboard – SaaS Gov Cloud (US) | Minor | no update since Sep 4, 2026 |
| Aug 31, 2026, 12:18 UTC | Ally OCR PDF Failures Ally - Canada, Ally - Asia Pacific, Ally - Europe, Ally - North America, Ally - Australia | No impact | 14 days 12 h |
| Aug 19, 2026, 22:10 UTC | Blackboard Service Interruption Blackboard - SaaS (US) | Critical | 46 h 56 min |
| Aug 11, 2026, 13:53 UTC | Few Blackboard SaaS clients are facing Intermittent outage Blackboard - SaaS (US) | Minor | 7 h 12 min |
| Aug 3, 2026, 14:49 UTC | Mailings Currently Unavailable - Evaluate, Institutional Effectiveness, Milestone, Portfolio, Course Evaluations Accreditation, Program Review, Planning, Outcomes, Evaluate, Milestone | Minor | 2 h 45 min |
| Jul 16, 2026, 18:18 UTC | Accreditation & Program Review Errors Accreditation, Program Review | Minor | 24 h 58 min |
| Jul 16, 2026, 08:33 UTC | Blackboard SaaS LMS Outage - Global Blackboard - SaaS - Global | Critical | 4 h 24 min |
| Jul 2, 2026, 12:39 UTC | Few Blackboard SaaS clients are facing performance issue Blackboard - SaaS (US), Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific) | Minor | 15 h 53 min |
| May 16, 2026, 11:04 UTC | All Gov Cloud clients and 8 EU prod clients Blackboard - SaaS (Europe), Blackboard – SaaS Gov Cloud (US) | No impact | 13 days 2 h |
| May 7, 2026, 16:13 UTC | Blackboard Issues with 4000.15.0 Release Blackboard - SaaS (Africa), Blackboard - SaaS (US), Blackboard - SaaS (Saudi), Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific), Blackboard - SaaS (Europe), Blackboard – SaaS Gov Cloud (US) | No impact | 3 days 21 h |
| Apr 27, 2026, 16:51 UTC | Ally Processing Delays for Canvas Institutions - US-east Region (April 27, 2026) Ally - North America | Minor | 18 h 45 min |
| Apr 24, 2026, 21:19 UTC | Blackboard Audio and Video Feedback Issues Blackboard - SaaS (Africa), Blackboard - SaaS (US), Blackboard - SaaS (Saudi), Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific), Blackboard - SaaS (Europe), Blackboard – SaaS Gov Cloud (US) | No impact | 2 h 10 min |
| Apr 21, 2026, 13:47 UTC | Ally Alternative Format Processing Delays - Europe - April 21, 2026 Ally - Europe | Minor | 5 h 08 min |
| Apr 16, 2026, 07:37 UTC | Illuminate - Performance Degradation Impacting Snowflake Queries and Reports Illuminate | Minor | 2 h 31 min |
| Apr 13, 2026, 13:41 UTC | Ally Course Sync and Copy Delays April 13, 2026 - All Regions Ally - Canada, Ally - Asia Pacific, Ally - Europe, Ally - North America, Ally - Australia | No impact | 3 days 22 h |
| Mar 30, 2026, 17:30 UTC | Ally Processing Delays - US-east Region (March 30, 2026) Ally - North America | Minor | 4 days 2 h |
| Mar 26, 2026, 19:56 UTC | Ally Processing Delays - US-east Region (March 26, 2026) Ally - North America | Minor | 15 h 34 min |
| Mar 18, 2026, 12:53 UTC | Illuminate - SSO login issue Illuminate | Major | 26 min |
| Mar 11, 2026, 16:53 UTC | AI Image Generation Issue within Blackboard LMS Blackboard - SaaS (Africa), Blackboard - SaaS (US), Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific), Blackboard - SaaS (Europe), Blackboard – SaaS Gov Cloud (US) | No impact | 26 h 13 min |
50 incidents in our archive since September 5, 2025.
When and where Blackboard fails
By weekday
Most incidents start on Mon.
- Mon12
- Tue9
- Wed9
- Thu9
- Fri10
- Sat1
- Sun0
Most affected, last 12 months
- Ally - North America9
- Blackboard - SaaS (US)9
- Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific)8
- Blackboard - SaaS (Europe)8
- Ally - Europe6
- Blackboard - SaaS (Africa)6
- Blackboard – SaaS Gov Cloud (US)6
- Blackboard - SaaS (Saudi)5
When Blackboard went down with others
- Oct 8, 2026, 15:51 UTC 15 services reported incidents within the hour
- Jul 16, 2026, 07:30 UTC 42 services reported incidents within the hour
- Apr 27, 2026, 16:49 UTC 13 services reported incidents within the hour
- Nov 18, 2025, 10:52 UTC 172 services reported incidents within the hour
Scheduled maintenance
- Oct 27, 2026, 08:00 UTC Blackboard SaaS 4001.4.0: Maintenance Test/Stage Release (scheduled for Oct 27, 2026)
- Oct 29, 2026, 08:00 UTC Blackboard SaaS 4001.2.0: Maintenance Production Release (scheduled for Oct 29, 2026)
- Oct 31, 2026, 07:00 UTC Ally Maintenance Scheduled for October 31, 2026 (US, EU)
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FAQ
- Is Blackboard down right now?
- At our last check Blackboard's official status page reported: Partially Degraded Service. This page refreshes the status every few minutes.
- How often does Blackboard go down?
- Blackboard reported 11 incidents in the last 90 days (3 major or critical), with 2,825 minutes of major outage: 97.82% uptime.
- When was the last Blackboard outage?
- The latest reported incident started on Oct 23, 2026, 14:40 UTC: "Illuminate data refresh delays for LMS data (US region)", and is not resolved yet.
- How long do Blackboard outages last?
- Half of Blackboard's incidents in the last 90 days were resolved within 15 h 09 min.
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