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Archive Your Course

An archive is a complete backup of your course. It includes the students, all their work, all discussions, course statistics, grades, etc. These archives are meant to be used as backups for your course, not for transferring your content from one container to another. Use the Course Copy tool to copy from one container to another.

When you archive your course, Blackboard creates a zip file of everything in your container. After this zip file is created, be sure to save it to your hard drive so you know it's in a secure place.

 

Control Panel > Archive Course

To begin archiving your course, go to the Control Panel and choose Archive Course in the Course Options section of the Control Panel.

Archive

There are only two options in the Export/Archive Manager. You want to archive your course, so click the Archive button to create your archive.

Submit to create archive

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Your course is already selected for you. You have the option to "Include Grade Center History." Since you are creating a backup of your course, you will most likely want to include the grades, so leave this box checked and click Submit.

Click OK

This screen tells you that your archive request has been received and that you will receive an email when it is complete. It generally doesn't take more than about 15 minutes for an archive to finish. Click OK to continue.

Important - Still more to do!

Once you receive the email telling your archive is complete, go back into the Control Panel and click on Archive Course.

Save the archive zip file to your hard drive.

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You will now see the zip file that contains your Blackboard course backup. Click the file name link to save it to your computer.

Save the file

When the File Download window opens, choose to Save the file.

Save As

In this step, choose the directory and file name to save it to. You can create a directory for your archive files if you want to and know how to do that, or you can just save it to your My Documents folder with the default file name. It's important that you not change the file type or change the .zip at the end of the file name. When you are ready, click Save.

Close

When the download is complete, click the Close button to finish. You now have a complete backup of your course saved to your computer for safekeeping and have completed this process.