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A course shell is an empty Blackboard course you can use to create a Master Course to manage content for outside of a particular live course you teach. These are often referred to as practice, development, or non-integrated courses.
Contact CIT to request a course shell for each specific course you want to preserve. Please include the semester and section number in this request.
Then, After you receive the empty course, you can use a Course Copy to copy content from an existing course. Make changes to the development course (course shell) and copy again into your live, Banner-integrated Blackboard course whenever you teach it.
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