Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Removing Spring 2015 Course from Blackboard

All Spring 2015 (and prior) courses will be removed from the production Blackboard environment on May 6, 2016.

The criteria for removal at this stage is:
    Course ID ending in “SP15”
    Or created before January 1, 2015

Procedure:
- On April 19 or 20 - Title of courses is changed to include "Will delete May 6, 2016" and courses are made unavailable
- All courses are archived (this is an ongoing standard procedure)
- May 6, 2016 (and following) - all flagged courses will be removed from production

Courses that are “deleted” will no longer be accessible to the instructor for access in Blackboard. The current VCCS policy allows courses to be accessible to instructors in Blackboard for three previous semesters and then the courses can be restored only by a Blackboard administrator. This is done by instructor request. So if you should need course content from an earlier semester, it can be restored.