Information Technology Services

Blackboard/MyMason Login

Outage category: Blackboard

Location: All Campuses

Status: Closed

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Students contacted Data Center, they were unable to log into Blackboard.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The issue was found to be a bug in Learn whereby if the SAML building block update fails, it is not retried and is left in a corrupt state.

Resolution

This bug has been resolved in release 3900.2 that will be applied to GMU’s production environment on 12/3/20. The fix is that Learn upgrades will retry the building block update if it is in a corrupt state.

Prevention

This is a Learn bug that was fixed.