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Distance Learning’s Blackboard Coordinator can assist you with the following:

• Creating new course shells
• Making copies of existing shells
• Deleting existing shells
• Archiving shells
• Recycling Shells
   

Requesting a New Blackboard Course Shell or Copies of Existing Shells
 

To request a new shell, please use the Blackboard Shell Request Form

Requesting Deletion of an Existing Blackboard Course Shell
 

To request deletion of an existing Blackboard course shell, please take the following steps:

1. Logon to Blackboard and open your course.
2. Click on the Control Panel.
3. Click on Settings.
4. Click on Course Name and Description.
5. Place your cursor at the start of the Course Name and type the words ARCHIVE & DELETE  in all caps.
6. Click the Submit button.

The Blackboard Administrator will archive and delete the shell as part of routine Blackboard maintenance.

Request Archiving of a Course
 

Always request archival of your course before recycling the course, because recycling deletes information that cannot be restored!
 

To request archival of an existing Blackboard course shell, please take the following steps:
 

1. Logon to Blackboard and open your course.
2. Click on the Control Panel.
3. Click on Settings.
4. Click on Course Name and Description.
5. Place your cursor at the start of the Course Name and type the word  ARCHIVE in all caps.
6. Click the Submit button.
    

 The Blackboard Administrator will archive the course as part of routine Blackboard maintenance.
 

Requesting Recycling of a Course
 

Note: Always request archival of your course along with recycling, because recycling deletes information that cannot be restored!
 

To request recycling of an existing Blackboard course shell, please take the following steps:
 

1. Logon to Blackboard and open your course.
2. Click on the Control Panel.
3. Click on Settings.
4. Click on Course Name and Description.
5. Place your cursor at the start of the Course Name and type the word ARCHIVE & RECYCLE in all caps.
6. Click the Submit button.
    

 The Blackboard Administrator will recycle the course as part of routine Blackboard maintenance.

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Need other services related to Blackboard?

Contact Ann Boisselle, Blackboard Coordinator, at Ext. 2462 or annb@clackamas.edu or visit the Distance Learning office in the Streeter Annex, Room S-178.

03/17/06