Here is a brief tutorial about archiving your course in Blackboard. This is helpful if you are teaching the same course each semester, or similar subject matter each semester. You can archive tests and quizzes you created in Blackboard or question pools you imported from years of test creating. Follow these steps:
1. Click on the course you want to archive on the Bb Welcome page.
2. Click on Control Panel.
3. Under Course Options (Left side, bottom), click on Archive Course.
4. Click the Submit button.
5. On the link that says “Click the right mouse button and select Save As” right click (Mac-control click) on the link and choose “Save Link As”.
6. Browse to a place on your computer you want to save the .zip file (do not open the zip file once it has been downloaded, this can corrupt the archive course file). Click Save.
Now you can import this zip file into your new course.
-Angel Brady
September 9, 2007 at 10:11 am |
I’ve used blackboard for a couple of years as a student and found it a brilliant academic tool. Sadly I feel that it is quickly becoming overtaken by other technolgies, thanks for taking the time to write this helpful guide
September 9, 2007 at 2:44 pm |
@friendsaandmoney – We’re in complete agreement – if it weren’t for the way that people gain some need for what they currently use regardless of its inferiority as a tool, we would have likely moved from Blackboard to any of the fantastic open source learning management systems out there, my own favorite being Moodle.
If we can make people see the benefit, there may be some hope in moving on.
John.