Hi Andrew,
We give instructions to lecturers on making 'Exact Copies' of any courses where interactive tools have been used, e.g. Journals, Wikis, Assignments. They use the Course Copy > Exact Copy facility to make a copy of the course, including the enrolments and submitted work. They label this course as an Archive, and since it's been copied via the GUI tools it will have a SYSTEM Data Source Key, so won't be affected by any future MIS enrolments. This is their archive copy to keep for as long as long as they wish, the only caveat being that the submitted work will only be accessible while the appropriate student accounts are still on our system.
Faculty can then continue to use the 'live' course (i.e. the one with the MIS integration) after course rollover, removing the old students, and enrolling the new ones.
One implication I've found is that the 'live' course can grow in size as the old students aren't actually removed, they are just hidden (ROW_STATUS=2), so any submitted work will still be stored in the course, and be contained in any archives. Therefore I've started using the Assignment File Cleanup facility where large files have been submitted via the Assignment tool to make sure the course archives don't contain files from multiple academic years.
Regards
Chris
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From: Blackboard/Courseinfo userslist [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Andrew Gold
Sent: 08 July 2013 14:48
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Subject: Archiving journal/blog content in Blackboard Learn 9.1 SP 11
Just checking if anyone has any tips for archiving student content when using journals/blogs/wikis in Bb Learn 9.1 If these tools are used for summative assessed work, then it seems there is no straightforward way to archive the content, before roll over.
I know the content for these tools wikis can be copied/pasted into a Word/PDF doc at a pinch
How do Universities manage this situation re. archiving their students summative work using these tools - or don't they bother archiving work at all? Formative work poses much fewer problems!
Thanks for any replies.
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