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Canvas Spotlight

How to back up a Blackboard course

By Alex McDaniel, Emily Van Buren, Chelsea Posey and Nicholas Ogg

December 2, 2020

As you may have heard, Metropolitan State University of Denver will retire Blackboard and Bb Collaborate on Jan. 31.  

To help with a smooth retirement of these systems, all faculty members who would like to back up their Blackboard course can do so with the Export/Archive Course feature in Blackboard. This feature allows you to download a zip file of the course that you can later import into Canvas if desired.

Best practices

• Export everything (if you think you might ever need it, export it).
• Do not open the zip file (opening will corrupt the file and make it unusable).
• Save the file in an easy-to-remember location.

Let’s walk through it together

Additional information about backing up Bb Collaborate is available on the “Move, Migrate & Archive Courses and Files” page on the msudenver.edu/ready support site.

For complete written step-by-step instructions, head over to the Center for Teaching, Learning and Design Ready Spotlight page.