End of Semester Reminders (Fall 2008)

As the semester draws to a close there are a few suggested steps you should take to preserve your Blackboard site for the future. Step-by-step text and video instructions for these steps can be found at http://www.philau.edu/ITS/bb/endsem.htm.

• Make your old courses unavailable to students.
• Export your grade book and print a hard copy.
• Save the Discussion Board forums
• Archive your course

NOTE: Be sure to Archive your course and NOT Export your course. Archiving creates a complete snapshot of your course including students and grades (useful if there is a grade dispute down the line).

Fall 2008 courses will remain available to you until the end of the Fall 2009 semester when they will be removed from the server. If you have students who need access to your Fall 2008 course site to finish an incomplete, you may continue to make your course available to them. It will be your responsibility to make the course unavailable once all work is completed.

IMPORTANT: If you have not already archived your Fall 2007 courses, please do so ASAP. All Fall 2007 courses will be purged from the Blackboard server on December 23, 2008.

FYI: All information and current news concerning Blackboard and Instructional Technology at Philadelphia University can be found at http://www.philau.edu/its/ and http://philauits.blogspot.com/.

Regards,

Mark Clauburg, Instructional Design Specialist