Planned Interruption to FlashLine Self Service Banner (SSB) & Cognos Reporting

When regular maintenance or critical updates need applied to our Banner environment, the Division of Information Technology will make the university community aware of when to anticipate the upgrade to Banner will start and when they expect the work to conclude.

During this time most applications, including Banner, will be intermittently unavailable. All services will resume immediately after maintenance concludes.

During those times, the following services WILL experience a service interruption:

Canvas, unless accessed at canvas.kent.edu
Course registration
Class schedules
Financial aid
Human resources materials
Grades
Phone directory
Leave reporting
Workflows
Cognos reporting
KSU Advising

The following services will NOT experience any service interruption:

Kent State email
Google Apps
Flash ALERTS