When are Blackboard courses retired?
In the 2022-2023 academic year, CIT shifted to a more routine, annual basis of retiring older Blackboard courses.
Course retirement is when shells are moved from UA’s production instance of Blackboard to a storage location for the purpose of auditing, accreditation, and record keeping. Retiring courses is necessary to ensure that our production site is operating at peak performance by simplifying data and data structures.
Live Courses
Live courses are Blackboard courses that contain student data and enrollments. Courses that will be retained on our production instance include:
The current/upcoming academic year
The last two (2) historical academic years.
During the 2022-2023 academic year, the following terms are available to faculty:
Semester Code | Term | Semester Code | Term |
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202340 | Fall 2023 | 202140 | Fall 2021 |
202330 | Summer 2023 | 202130 | Summer 2021 |
202310 | Spring 2023 | 202110 | Spring 2021 |
202240 | Fall 2022 |
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202230 | Summer 2022 |
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202210 | Spring 2022 |
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Non-integrated courses
Non-integrated courses do not have student enrollments. Non-integrated courses include practice courses, resource courses, and development courses. Each year, the following will be retired:
Any course with two (2) years of inactivity
Timeline
Time | Task |
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April / May | Faculty are reminded of the course retirement process |
June / July | CIT staff work with Blackboard support to archive courses |
August / September | Courses are successfully retired and removed from production |
Before courses are retired, faculty can save content from the course and can export their course content to be later imported back into Blackboard.