Backup Discussion Board |
Download Gradebook |
Archive Course
NOTE: Backups of the entire Blackboard System are
done regularly. However, it is a good idea to "archive" your courses
regularly throughout the semester. "Archiving" a course
includes all student interactions (discussion board entries,
quizzes, grades, etc.) to that point during the semester.
"Exporting" only copies course content and should be used to store
the basic content of a course (without students, etc.).
Restoring the Blackboard System from a backup
changes ALL content for all courses in the system to the point in
time when the backup was performed. A "system restore" is a
last choice option and affects all courses.
Archiving/Restoring a course can be done on an individual course
(course by course) basis, however, faculty are responsible for
archiving their courses regularly.
To
backup individual discussion board threads that have been posted,
you should open the discussion forum in your course, and click on
the “show options” tab on the right side of the screen. Next, click
the “select all” button and then click the “collect” button. This
will display all of the discussion threads for that forum on one
page. Select all of the text and then click “copy”. Open up a word
processing program such as Microsoft Word and then “paste” the text
into a new file and save it somewhere on your computer. Or, if
you have the full version of Adobe Acrobat, you could print the
pages to a PDF file.
To download the gradebook:
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Logon to your
course
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Click Control Panel
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Click Online
Gradebook
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Click Export
Gradebook
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Click Go
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Click Get Exported
Gradebook
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File Download
window will appear
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At the Save As
window, choose a folder/directory to save your course under "Save
In" list arrow, and click on the Save Button
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You must use Excel
to open the gradebook
After downloading the
gradebook, make sure that you archive and download your course. To
archive your course and copy to the hard drive:
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Click Control Panel
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Click Course
Utilities
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Click Archive
Course
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Select the content
areas to archive - these are optional, however, you should select
all areas
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Content
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Course Settings
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Users and Groups
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Assessments and
Pools
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Discussion Board
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Click Submit
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Message - Click
here to download exported course site
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File Download
window will appear
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At the Save As
window, choose a folder/directory to save your course under "Save
In" list arrow (Rename your file if necessary), and click on the
Save button
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