“Recylcing” a Course in Blackboard

Once the term is completed, you should save/backup your course shells, then recycle them for use in the next term. Once courses are backed up, please remember to reset your course(s) and/or make your course(s) unavailable, to remove the students. Otherwise, those students accounts remain active for your course shell(s) past the semester end date.

Saving a Blackboard Course

1. Login to your account and select the course you wish to back up.
2. Click on the Control Panel button on the navigation bar.
3. Under Course Options, click on Course Utilities.
   
4. Select Archive Course.
   
5. Select any or all of the content areas that you wish to back up. Click Submit.
6. Under Receipt, click on the hyperlinked work "here" in the sentence on your screen.
7. You will be asked if you wish to open from current location or save to disk. Click on Save to Disk.
8. Select a location to store the course. It may be stored on your hard drive or even on a zip disk, depending on size.

Recycling a BB Course

In the control panel, Look under “Course Options” at the bottom left side of the screen. Choose “Course Utilities” and then “Course recycler.”  Then click on the areas that you want the information emptied from. It will warn you that this is irreversible so make sure that you are not checking syllabus and course content unless you want to redo those areas. You typically only want to empty areas under section 2 which is user data, announcements, statistics, etc.