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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

For example, during the 2022-2023 Which Terms Are Available to Instructors in Blackboard

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

• AY2025-2025

• AY2023-2024

• AY2022-2023

• AY2021-2022

• AY2020-2021
• AY2019-2020

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 2023-2024 academic yearBeginning in June 2025, the following terms will be retired:

• AY2019

  AY2021-

  2020

  2022

• Any course shell still on the system before Fall

  2020

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• 2022

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