Spring and Summer 2022 Blackboard Courses to be Archived on Friday, Sept. 22

As many of you already know, FCLD purges Blackboard courses twice a year, typically in September and in March. This is part of our regular ongoing Blackboard maintenance and these courses are academic CRN-based courses that were taught over a year ago, so they are past the deadline for incompletes or grade disputes. On Sept. 22, 2023, all Spring 2022, and Summer 2022 Blackboard courses will be removed from active status on Blackboard. While we have backups of the instructor content, all student content - discussions, grades, assignment submissions, and any other student data - is not backed up. Once the course is purged, you and your faculty will no longer have access to student data. If any student content needs to be kept for accreditation or any other reason, faculty should download it prior to September 22. While in the past, we filtered out some courses from the purge due to accreditation needs, we are now paying for Blackboard storage and cannot afford to keep the course up just for the purpose of storing accreditation evidence and artifacts.

All Collaborate recordings from Spring 2022 and Summer 2022 will also be removed. Instructors who wish to maintain copies of any recordings that do not contain student input or identifying information should download them before Sept. 22 using these instructions.

If you or your faculty have any questions about Blackboard course deactivation or need assistance downloading student content, please contact the Faculty Center for Learning Development at 860.768.4661 or fcld@hartford.edu.