Blackboard Course Purge. Every year in the spring, IT Services deletes old Blackboard course shells. On April 18, 2014 all regular course shells from 2010 will be deleted. You can ask IT Services to not delete a course shell by contacting the IT Call Center by April 11, 2014. This is only for regular course shells. Dev shells are never deleted.
If you want to keep a copy of your course, you can export it. This tutorial from Blackboard explains how. Include all areas you want to save - including assignments, tests surveys and pools, and grade center if you want to have them to reuse as well. You can then import the material into another course. Please note that student work is not saved with the export.
Archiving a course saves all the material from the shell, including student work. Though you can archive a Blackboard shell, only IT Services can restore an archive file.
Please note that though the exported course packaged and archive files are zip files, they are not formatted to be viewable when unzipped. To view the file's contents, you have to put them back into Blackboard.
Final Exam Schedule. The final exam schedule is available now. Room assignments will be final the week of April 7.
Ed Tech as Transformative. This post by D'Arcy Norman, Why I care about Ed Tech, reflects on innovation and transformation in ed tech. "Edtech is important not because of the tech, but because of the educational activities enabled by it." Which is foundational to me: I am less enamored of tech for the sake of tech, but instead with solving pedagogical challenges to meet learning goals. (Ok, I do like the new toys, too - but I attempt to maintain perspective.)
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