[BB] Archiving & Removing '05-'06 Blackboard Courses

Bb Users,

 

It is time to archive and remove old courses from Blackboard.

 

Every year we archive and remove old courses. This time we will be removing the 2005-2006 (Fall 2005 – Summer 2006) courses from the Blackboard system (ending with -060, -061, -062, -063, -064). Courses from the 2006-2007 school year will be made unavailable to students, but will still be accessible to faculty. You can find your old courses in Blackboard by going to the Courses tab.

 

I will begin disabling these courses so that they can be archived and removed on Monday, December 1.

 

I have attached a document that explains how to archive and save your courses to your computer or disk if you would like to maintain your own archive. (We do maintain an archive here at the Instructional Advancement Center).

 

QUESTIONS:

1. WHAT IS ARCHIVING?
   Archiving means we take your entire course and save it to a disk. Then we remove it from the Blackboard system. If we ever need to restore the course, we can, but it may take a while for me to dig it out of the archive since we maintain over 100,000 courses.
   
   
2. CAN YOU ARCHIVE AND SAVE YOUR OWN COURSE?
   Yes, you can! Attached is a document that explains how to archive your course and how to download a great tool that will make navigating that archived course easier. Here is a link to a PDF version of the archive instructions attached to this email. You can also access the instructions through the Support tab in Blackboard.
   
   

 

If you need any more information, please let me know or open a ticket: Blackboard Help Desk.

 

Best wishes for a smooth end-of-the-semester/year,

Jennifer

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JENNIFER CLISTER
Blackboard Manager & Analyst
University of Miami IAC
305-284-3949

 

[BB] Safe Assign Update!

Bb Users,

 

I have just upgraded our version of Safe Assign. Safe assign can now accept .docx formatted documents (finally!). For those who have been having more problems with Safe Assign this semester than usual, Blackboard has lead me to believe this will help.

 

If you experience any problems, please try clicking the “Synchronize this course” link at the top of the Safe Assign page which you access from your course’s control panel:

 

 

 

Please let me know if you have any problems (or create a ticket).

 

- Jennifer

____________________________________
JENNIFER CLISTER
Blackboard System Manager
University of Miami IAC
305-284-3949

 

[BB] Blackboard VERY slow

Bb Users,

 

Blackboard has been unbearably slow off and on this morning. We are aware of the problem, and I am working with Blackboard to correct the problem as quickly as possible.

 

I apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience.

 

-Jennifer

____________________________________
JENNIFER CLISTER
Blackboard System Manager
University of Miami IAC
305-284-3949