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Academic courses from the past 2 years. For example, as of Jan January 2021, any BbLearn course added prior to December 2018 is subject to removal.
Non-integrated (not integrated with Banner), practice, or developmental courses that have been accessed in the past two years. These can also be removed by request when no longer needed.
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Why do we need to do this now?
In August 2021, UA will move moved from our current hosting solution for Blackboard Learn (called Blackboard Managed Hosting) to a different hosting option (Blackboard SaaS). Moving to the new hosting option will keep keeps UA on the most recent release of Blackboard Learn, allow for implementing new course layout and tool options, and prevent extended downtime currently needed for updates and maintenance. Because this change requires migrating the entire database, we have to clean cleaned up before the move. We have already deleted more than 300,000 user accounts and disabled some courses created prior to 2016.