Blackboard Email Relay Solution Replacement (Mar. 31)

Scheduled Maintenance Report for Blackboard Inc.

Completed

The scheduled maintenance has been completed.
Posted Apr 01, 2026 - 10:34 EDT

In progress

Scheduled maintenance is currently in progress. We will provide updates as necessary.
Posted Mar 31, 2026 - 08:14 EDT

Update

REMINDER: The deadline to update your configuration has almost passed. If e-mails have changed to originate from "do-not-reply@blackboard.com" or are being blocked or marked as "spam", please contact support to start the process as soon as possible.

Please refer to the Anthology Support Center for more details:
https://support.anthology.com/s/article/Important-Information-for-Clients-using-Custom-domain-to-send-emails
Posted Mar 30, 2026 - 17:18 EDT

Scheduled

On March 31, 2026, Blackboard will be replacing the current Email Relay solution (Sentrion) with a new email relay solution (Amazon SES) which will provide a more robust, scalable, and reliable service. If you use Blackboard email relay service to send emails from your custom domain (for example donotreply@monument.edu), this change will impact you. DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) will now be a required configuration when you use our e-mail relays and a non-’blackboard.com’ domain to send e-mail from your Blackboard LMS.  Please refer to the Anthology Support Center for more details:
https://support.anthology.com/s/article/Important-Information-for-Clients-using-Custom-domain-to-send-emails

This support bulletin is only applicable to clients that send emails from a custom domain. There will be no impact or disruption to email functionality in the application during the transition i.e., Messages and email functionality will continue to work as normal
Posted Mar 10, 2026 - 12:39 EDT
This scheduled maintenance affected: Africa (Blackboard - SaaS (Africa)), Americas (Blackboard - SaaS (US), Blackboard – SaaS Gov Cloud (US)), Europe & Middle East (Blackboard - SaaS (Saudi), Blackboard - SaaS (Europe)), and Asia Pacific (Blackboard - SaaS (Asia Pacific)).