Archiving Blackboard Courses

To avoid permanently losing a course to the routine purging that occurs at the end of every Fall term, you may save the contents of your courses as an archive on your office computer for future reference.

Any instructor who later wishes to have their course restored may do so by providing the archive file to ITS. The course can be copied and re-installed back into the Blackboard system.

1. Login to Blackboard with your username and password.
2. Under the My Courses heading, click on the name of the course that you wish to archive.
3. Click the Control Panel link in the lower-left corner of the page.
4. Under the Course Options heading, click the Archive Course link.
5. Click the Submit button on the Archive Course page that appears. Your web browser may not respond for a minute or so, depending on the size of the course, but do not hit the Submit button a second time.
6. Right-click on the link underneath the Receipt heading, and choose Save Target As... from the drop-down menu that appears to reveal the Save As window.
7. Choose a file name for the archive and a location to which to save it, and click the Save button. Your course has now been archived.