{"id":826,"date":"2016-02-16T13:30:05","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/?p=826"},"modified":"2016-02-16T13:30:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-16T18:30:05","slug":"student-enrollment-removed-from-fall-2015-blackboard-courses-feb-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/2016\/02\/16\/student-enrollment-removed-from-fall-2015-blackboard-courses-feb-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Enrollment Removed from Fall 2015 Blackboard courses Feb. 19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On February 19th, instructors\u2019 students will be disappearing from last semester\u2019s Blackboard courses. These courses have IDs that begin with\u00a0<strong>201510_<\/strong>.\u00a0 So if you are an instructor using Blackboard and haven\u2019t gotten around to archiving your courses and you want to keep a record of your students\u2019 grades and discussion board interactions, now is the time to archive your course, download your Grade Center as an Excel file, and\/or collect your discussion board discussions.Other than student interactions and grades, all materials will remain in your course until you request its removal or three years has passed (whichever comes first). To download your grades, in\u00a0<strong>Grade Center<\/strong>\u00a0go to\u00a0<strong>Workoffline<\/strong>\u00a0&gt;\u00a0<strong>Download\u00a0<\/strong>and save the full Grade Center. On the next screen, be sure to hit\u00a0<strong>Download<\/strong>\u00a0instead of<strong>\u00a0OK<\/strong>.<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/Screen-Shot-2012-06-27-at-10.31.56-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GC Work offline\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/Screen-Shot-2012-06-27-at-10.31.56-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"628\" height=\"106\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you would like to keep an archive of the course, follow these instructions:<\/p>\n<p>1. Go to your course\u2019s Control Panel and select \u201cPackages and Utilities\u201d and then \u201cExport\/Archive Course\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/Export_Archive.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Export_Archive\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/Export_Archive.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"182\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>2. Click the \u201cArchive\u201d button, select options, and hit \u201cSubmit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/Archive.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Archive\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/Archive.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"386\" height=\"166\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>3. After you\u2019ve received your confirmation e-mail that the course has been archived (usually within 10-20 minutes), go back to \u201cExport\/Archive Course\u201d in your Control Panel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/File.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"File\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/File.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"626\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>4. Left-click the archived .zip file and save it to your desktop.<\/p>\n<p>An archive .zip file contains the course content in a format that is not directly readable.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to archive discussion board postings, go to your course\u2019s Discussion Board and select all posts you would like to keep. Select \u201cCollect\u201d and then \u201cPrint Preview\u201d. To save them digitally, print to PDF; you can also print hard copies.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/Discussion-Thread.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Discussion Thread\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/Discussion-Thread.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"343\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/Print.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Print\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/files\/2012\/06\/Print.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"406\" height=\"273\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you have questions about UR Blackboard policy, archiving your course or anything not fully clear to you, please do not hesitate to contact your technology liaison, respond to this e-mail or view the Blackboard policy for faculty on the IS web site:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/is.richmond.edu\/academic\/blackboard.html\">http:\/\/is.richmond.edu\/academic\/blackboard.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please send an email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:blackboard@richmond.edu\">blackboard@richmond.edu<\/a>\u00a0.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On February 19th, instructors\u2019 students will be disappearing from last semester\u2019s Blackboard courses. These courses have IDs that begin with\u00a0201510_.\u00a0 So if you are an instructor using Blackboard and haven\u2019t gotten around to archiving your courses and you want to keep a record of your students\u2019 grades and discussion board interactions, now is the time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2188,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2188"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/826\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/blackboard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}