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Archiving Your Blackboard Course

Exporting a Course 

Use this process to keep your course if you know you or someone else will use the content/materials in future Blackboard courses. This will download all course content and materials into a .zip file that should NOT be unzipped. 

  1. Navigate to the Blackboard course you want to archive. 
  2. Click Packages and Utilities in the Control Panel area of the Course Menu. 
  3. Click Export/Archive Course. 
  4. Click Export Package. 
  5. Check the box to select all content and click Submit. 
  6. You will receive a notification via email that confirms the archive package is ready. 
  7. Click the link to download the zip file to your computer. 

VERY IMPORTANT: DO NOT UNZIP BLACKBOARD ARCHIVE OR EXPORT ZIP FILES. These files must remain zipped in order to be uploaded into Brightspace.

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