Home Alerts News Archive

In order to continue to provide the latest tools and best Blackboard service, a behind-the-scenes upgrade is required that requires us to take Blackboard off-line for a time that is much longer than our typical weekly maintenance window. Please note the following schedule for time to accommodate the rescheduling of planned virtual meeting times. For students, you are

Marshall University will be closed on Friday, March 23. As such, the Instructional Design Centers and Drinko Library will also be closed on this day.

As of 10:10 AM on January 16, 2018, Collaborate Ultra users may experience an error when trying to load their session or a recorded session. Blackboard is working to resolve this issue. For more information regarding downtime or service restoration, please continue to check the Blackboard Collaborate Service site: http://status.blackboard.com/services/blackboard-collaborate—web-conferencing-us-hosted  

As of Monday, December 4th, 2017, 10:28 AM EST (Eastern Standard Time) UTC/GMT -5 – Blackboard Collaborate users are experiencing intermittent issues that affect the launching of Collaborate Classic and Collaborate Ultra sessions. Collaborate Ultra users may see A01, A02, A03, A04 or 500 errors. If affected please try to reload your session. Collaborate DevOps is

Blackboard Upgrade
November 21, 2017 · Home Alerts

Blackboard will be unavailable from 10:00 PM December 21 – 5:00 PM December 22 for a feature upgrade.

The Instructional Design Centers will be closed for Thanksgiving break starting on Wednesday, November 22. We will resume normal business hours on Monday, November 27. If you would like to send us an email about an issue, we can be reached at designcenter@marshall.edu.

Thanksgiving Hours
November 16, 2016 · Home Alerts

The Instructional Design Center will be closed on Wednesday, November 23 – Friday, November 25. We will observe normal business hours November 21-22, and will re-open at our normal times on Monday, November 28.

Due to construction work occurring in our Communications Building office, the Huntington Design Center will not be available for drop-in appointments until Monday, May 23rd. At that time, you will find us in our new location in Drinko Library 235. Instructional Designers are still available to meet with faculty on the Huntington campus if needed,

Why am I receiving this message? A security issue involving the Marshall University Single-Sign-On (MUSSO) web server was reported on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 to the Marshall University Information Security Office. The issue involves a potential for exposure of your MUNET credentials (username and password). Does this affect me? This issue would occur if you

We are currently experiencing some intermittent connectivity issues to the internet. Two of our three internet service providers are down due to a problem with their off-site fiber connections. We are currently routing all network traffic through our third and backup service provider. Since all off campus network traffic is going through one provider, you