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Beginning June 2025, we will be re-enabling the academic courses that are archived within Blackboard.  This will allow us to transfer the data to an external archiving platform. The archiving product will support the restoration of academic records as needed, with the support of a Canvas administrator from OIT. OIT will maintain the archiving product from June 2025 through June 2028 to support the transitional retention of critical academic records for two years after Blackboard is retired.

OIT will conduct the archiving process one semester at a time, beginning with the oldest courses (Summer 2018-19).

Note: While we prepare these courses for the move to the archiving application, they will be visible to you inside of Blackboard for approximately 4-6 weeks. Your Panopto content linked to these courses will also be visible during this period. If you have any last content you wish to retain from these courses, this is a great time to do so.

Once we have confirmed that everything has been properly copied to the new archiving application, we will permanently delete the courses from Blackboard.  We will then repeat the process for the next semester’s courses.  The full archiving process will take approximately one year to complete. 

All non-academic content will be deleted from Blackboard on or before June 2026.  The exact timeline is to be determined.  The process of restoring archived courses within Blackboard, so that they can be moved to our archiving application will cause an increase in the amount of storage we need within Blackboard, of which we have a finite amount of storage available.  We will not know how our storage is impacted until we begin the initial restoration process in June 2025.  At which time we will be better able to communicate the anticipated timeline for the deletion of non-academic content. 

Blackboard bills the University for additional storage space, which has increased over the length of the Blackboard contract. The archiving process will increase the volume of content in Blackboard as old courses are restored prior to moving to the archiving product. OIT aims to delete as much unnecessary content as possible leading up to archiving work to manage the already high cost of Blackboard storage.