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Closing Out a Course Site

Exporting a course
Submitting final grades to the Registrar
Course Archiving

There are several steps you should take when the semester ends and you are wrapping up your Blackboard course site, in particular when it comes to saving a copy of your course site. 

Exporting a course / saving a back-up copy.

Saving a copy of your Blackboard course site is not only helpful for use in future course sites but is critical for data maintenance and integrity. A Blackboard course site is proprietary; it only makes sense that you should ‘own’ a back-up of it too. Be responsible for all the hard work you put into a course site. Be safe and save it!
The best time to export a course site, (and you can actually export a course site as many times as you wish at any time) is at the end of semester when it is fully loaded with all the content, you have the settings just so and the course site is ‘complete’. Please note that an exported course does not save student records, only non-user specific material and content. To save a copy of your course complete with student participation (such as Discussion Board entries, assignments, etc.) select the Archive icon from within the Export/Archive Manager.

To export a course site:


The nice thing about having an exported copy of your Blackboard course site is that you can then easily import it, or parts of it, into a new course.

Submitting final grades to the Registrar.

An instructor can easily submit final grades (at the end of semester) through Blackboard. The final grade submission process electronically dumps grades into Jenzabar, the management system.

To submit final grades through Blackboard:

Instructors cannot resubmit grades electronically through Blackboard. If any changes need to be to a student's grade this must be done in person, with the Registrar.

 

Archiving courses.

Courses are archived from Blackboard by the System Administrator when they are approximately eighteen months old. Archiving removes courses from the system. Archived courses are maintained by the System Administrator. It is therefore even more important to make sure that you export your course, particularly if you plan on using content from an old course in the future.

 

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