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Beginning with the 2021-2022 academic year, DoIT will be moving 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

For example, during the 2021-2022 Which Terms Are Available to Instructors in Blackboard

During the 2024-2025 academic year, the following terms are available to facultyinstructors:

  • AY2021

    AY2025-

    2022

    2025

  • AY2020

    AY2023-

    2021

    2024

  • AY2019

    AY2022-

    2020

    2023

  • AY2018

    AY2021-

    2019

Courses that will be retired on an annual basis include:

  • Any course shell older than four (4) academic years 

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  • 2022

Beginning in June 2025, the following terms will be retired:

  • AY2018

    AY2021-

    2019

    2022

  • Any course shell still on the system before Fall

    2018

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  • 2022

Warning

Before courses are retired, faculty

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may export their Blackboard course shells

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