Instructions on Archiving your Blackboard Course


Video tutorial--Archiving your Blackboard course

1.In Blackboard go to your Control Panel

2. In Course Options area, click on Archive Course

3. You will be taken to a page named Export/Archive Manager. click on the Archive icon/link just below the Export/Archive Manager.

4. The next page will list the name of the course. If that is correct click on the submit button at the right and bottom of the screen. You will get this message: "This action has been successfully queued. An email will be sent when the process is complete." Click OK and check your email for a message to you saying the archive has been created.

5. Go back to the Control Panel, Course Options, Archive Course. You will see a file ending in .zip. Right click on that file and save it to your computer.

Retrieving Your Archived Folders and Files via bFree
 
bFree is a free java based software from the University of North Carolina for converting an Blackboard Archive Zip folder to files that are duplicates of the original files and folders or extract the course as a web page .
bFree works on Windows XP and Mac OSX. Vista is not currently supported.
Right click here to download bFree (alas you will need the latest Java update (most have it but if not, click here to download & install java update.)
click here for information about bFree from UNC

click here for a video tutorial (must have quicktime installed)




Emily Gwynn, Educational Technology Services Manager
Tami Stanko, Media Technician
Calvin Burgamy, Instructional Technologist
 

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