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Blackboard Outage History

Every past Blackboard outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 361 Blackboard outages since April 2020. The 44 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Major March 1, 2026

March 2026: Blackboard LMS Outage - Multiple services (UAE)

Detected Mar 1, 2026 11:31 PM PST · Resolved Apr 6, 2026 2:22 AM PDT · Duration about 1 month

Blackboard LMS sites hosted in the Middle East region experienced a major outage lasting over 35 days due to infrastructure damage and power issues in AWS availability zones. All Blackboard sites in the region were completely inaccessible, with access restricted to ensure service quality during recovery efforts. The issue was resolved by migrating all affected production sites to an alternate AWS region.

Minor February 22, 2026

February 2026: Learn SaaS Email service issue: Global

Detected Feb 22, 2026 9:10 PM PST · Resolved Feb 23, 2026 6:37 AM PST · Duration about 9 hours

Blackboard Learn SaaS experienced a global email service issue that prevented users from sending emails through the platform for 9.5 hours. The technical teams identified the root cause and implemented a fix. The service was restored and placed under monitoring to ensure stability.