When are Blackboard courses retired?
Course retirement is when shells are moved from UA’s production instance of Blackboard to a storage location for the purpose of auditing, accreditation, and record keeping. Retiring courses is necessary to ensure that our production site is operating at peak performance by simplifying data and data structures.
Timeline
Time | Task |
|---|---|
April / May | Faculty are reminded of the course retirement process |
June / July | CIT staff work with Blackboard support to archive courses |
August / September | Courses are retired and removed from production |
Live Courses
Live courses are Blackboard courses that contain student data and enrollments. Courses that will be retained on our production instance include:
The current/upcoming academic year
The last two (2) historical academic years.
As of February 2025, the following terms are available to faculty:
Semester Code | Term | Eligible to be removed after |
|---|---|---|
202530 | Summer 2025 | end of summer term 2027 |
202510 | Spring 2025 | end of spring term 2027 |
202440 | Fall 2024 | end of fall term 2026 |
202430 | Summer 2024 | end of summer term 2026 |
202410 | Spring 2024 | end of spring term 2026 |
202340 | Fall 2023 | end of fall term 2025 |
202330 | Summer 2023 | end of summer term 2025 |
202310 | Spring 2023 | end of spring term 2025 |
202240 | Fall 2022 | end of fall term 2024 |
202230 | Summer 2022 | end of summer term 2024 |
Non-integrated courses
Non-integrated courses do not have student enrollments. Non-integrated courses include practice courses, resource courses, and development courses. Each year, the following will be retired:
Any course with two (2) years of inactivity
Before courses are retired, faculty can save content from the course and can export their course content to be later imported back into Blackboard.