Getting Ready for the Move to Canvas for Students
As we transition from Blackboard to Canvas we want students to understand their options for retaining their own data that is currently housed in their Blackboard courses. Once Blackboard is retired as the university’s active learning management system, your ability to access to these items will be limited unless you take some steps to download and house them on your own computer. Please note that your instructors have control over your ability to access Blackboard courses from previous semesters. If you no longer see an older Blackboard course appearing on your course list, that means the course instructor has turned off student access to that course.
The below checklist outlines some optional steps that will allow you to back up and continue to have access to information that is currently stored in Blackboard.
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Archiving all Blackboard courses in a read-only Blackboard Archive format This Blackboard archive will be include complete courses including student data, but be accessible to a limited number of university technology support staff. We will be able to work with instructors to retrieve data that is housed in these archives on an as-needed basis. |
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Downloading your submitted and graded papers (with and without instructor feedback) You can download the papers you have submitted to Blackboard assignments, either in their original formats or with your instructor feedback attached as a PDF. |
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Copying your grades |
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Downloading file attachments Files such as PDFs and PowerPoints that your instructors have uploaded to their Blackboard courses can be downloaded for you to keep on your personal computer. |