In the 2021-2022 academic year, DoIT shifted to a more routine, annual basis of retiring older Blackboard course shells.
Course retirement is when Blackboard course shells are moved from UMBC's production instance of Blackboard to an intermediate storage location for the purpose of auditing, accreditation, and record keeping. Retiring courses is necessary to ensure that our production site is operating at peak performance by simplifying data and data structures.
Courses that will be retained on our production instance include:
The current/upcoming academic year
The last three (3) historical academic years
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Which Terms Are Available to Instructors in Blackboard
During the 2023-2024 academic year, the following terms are available to facultyinstructors:
AY2023-2024
AY2022-2023
AY2021-2022
AY2020-2021
Courses that will be retired on an annual basis include:
- Any course shell older than four (4) academic years
For example, at the beginning of the 2024-2025 academic yearBeginning in June 2024, the following terms will be retired:
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AY2020-2021
Any course shell still on the system before Fall 2021
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