Upcoming System Downtime

Saturday, May 18th 12:01 a.m. EST until
Saturday, May 18th 6:00 a.m. EST

This page is the official source of information from Liberty University Information Technology.

As part of a continuing effort to improve and maintain our network, Information Technology will be conducting planned maintenance on our Banner database system on the above date.

Student Impact

ASIST, Financial Check-In, most streaming videos (including videos contained in Blackboard courses), housing registration, and class registration are the major tools that will be unavailable during this time. For a full list, see the Services Impacted section below.

Blackboard access will remain available during this time. Students taking tests, quizzes, or submitting assignments will not be affected. MyLU will be unavailable, however students will be redirected to a secondary login screen. 

Faculty Impact

In addition to the services listed below, posting final grades and the student roster functionality in Blackboard will be unavailble. All other Blackboard function will remain online.

Staff Impact/Services Impacted

• ASIST
• Banner INB
• Financial Check-In
• Housing & Judicial(Adirondack)
• Online Student Application Submission
• Media.liberty.edu (streaming videos)
• MyLU Portal mylu.liberty.edu
• Degree Works
• Account Creation Tool
• Banner Xtender
• IT Marketplace
• All online payment transactions
• Argos job submission and reporting
• Campaign Enterprise
• Online Student Application Submission
• Online Transcript requests
• P-Card System
• Ad-Astra Campus Scheduler
• Book Vouchers
• LU Temp ID
• LU Card ID Scan

Feedback

Information Technology works to minimize the occurrence of outages, both planned and unplanned. We have policies and systems in place to allow us to perform most network maintenance without customer impact, but occasionally a planned downtime period is needed. If you have any comments about the upcoming outage, please email itfeedback@liberty.edu