• Introduction
• Course Management
  • Course Settings
    • Making Course Available
    • Customizing the Course Main Menu
    • Archiving a Course
    • Deleting a Course
  • Content Areas
  • User Management
• Assessments
• Grade Center
• Tools

Archiving a Course

To archive a course with online interactions (discussion board postings, grades, etc.):

The archive process in Blackboard will create a ZIP file containing all the documents uploaded to the course site as well as all course interactions. To use the entire archive in a new Blackboard course, you need to contact the Blackboard administrators to restore the ZIP file to the new site for you.

1. Go to Control Panel > Archive Course.
2. Click Submit.
3. Click the link that says Click here to download the generated package file.
4. Click OK.

To archive without course interactions (export a course):

A Blackboard course "archive" that contains just the content items and not the student interactions (grades, submitted assignments, discussion board postings, etc.) is called a course export. Similar to archiving, exporting creates a ZIP file that can be imported back into Blackboard later on. To learn more about importing a course, see the instructions on Copying Content).

1. Go to Control Panel > Export Course.
2. Check the boxes next to the content you wish to save.
3. Click Submit.
4. Click the link that says Click here to download the generated package file.
5. Click OK.