Backing up Your Blackboard Course

Although the Blackboard server is backed up each night, it is always a good idea to create your own backups of your course sites and/or your gradebook at the end of each semester as a personal record.

Archiving Your Course

1. Log into Blackboard and proceed into your course site
2. Click the Control Panel link
3. Click the Archive Course link under the Course Options heading
4. Click the Submit button
5. Right-click your mouse on the provided link and select Save As (or Save As Link if you are using Firefox) to save the archived zip file to a location on your hard drive or network drive
6. After you have saved your archive file, click the Remove button

You now have an archived copy of your course which contains all course resources, discussion boards, group work, dropbox documents, etc. If you ever need to restore this archived copy of your course, please contact the Teaching and Technology Center at 508.531.2634.

Backing up Your Gradebook

At the end of each semester, it is a good idea to save a backup copy of your Blackboard gradebook for your own records, whether you archive your course or not.. To export your gradebook to a .csv file, which can be opened in Microsoft Excel, do the following:

1. Log into Blackboard and proceed into your course site
2. Click the Control Panel link
3. Click the Gradebook link under the Assessment heading
4. Click the Download Grades button
5. Select the delimiter type as Tab and click the Submit button
6. Right-click on the Download button and select Save As (or Save Link As if you are using Firefox) to save a a copy of your gradebook in .csv format to a location on your hard drive or network drive