CELTIC

Contact Information

Center for the Enhancement of Learning and Teaching

CELTIC is attached to the Ryan Library Building- not far from the main entrance to campus
Phone: (914) 633-2146

Blackboard FAQs

Blackboard - Archiving a Course

The archive course feature creates a single .zip file containing all of your site's content. If you open the file on your computer, you won't find a format that you can reuse outside of Blackboard. The archive is designed to be reused in a new Blackboard site, in the event you need to retrieve it in the future.

Use of Archive Files

Blackboard archive files are .zip format, meaning all content is compressed into a single zipped file for storage and later restoration if necessary into the Blackboard system.

Blackboard archive files must remain untouched once you have saved them locally. If you unzip an archive file, it will be rendered unusable by Blackboard.

Therefore, the procedure for archiving or saving a course site’s complete content would be:
1. Instructor archives course to .zip format
2. Instructor saves .zip file locally
3. BB Administrator deletes course sites
4. Instructor provides archive .zip file to BB administrator to restore if needed in future

Here are the steps:

Navigate to the Control Panel under Course Management on the lower left-hand side of the home page for the course you wish to archive.
Under Packages and Utilities, select Export/Archive Course.
In the Export / Archive Course Manager, click on the Archive Course link.
You can simply click on Submit, or you can choose to Include Grade Center History. When you submit, you will see the following message:

Success: This action has been queued. An email will be sent when the process is complete
Click on the Home Page to refresh the course site.
When you have received your email notification, repeat steps 1 and 2 above. You will see the single .zip file in the Export / Archive Manager.
Right Click on the .zip file and "save file as" to a safe place on your computer. You can also save to an external storage device such as a flash drive. Different Browsers may have a different "save as" message, such as "save link as".