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-
20222025
- AY2020
AY2023-
20212024
- AY2019
AY2022-
20202023
- 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-
20192022
Any course shell still on the system before Fall
2018
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2022
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