To: Baruch Faculty
From: Jim Russell, Director of Instructional Technology

CUNY CIS has announced a new archiving plan for older courses currently on 
the Blackboard server hosted at CUNY.  Courses from the Spring 2005 
semester will soon be archived to disc and removed from the server.  This 
archiving should improve server performance and free some much needed space 
on the server.  Faculty members should plan to archive courses on their 
office computer.  To do this:

From the old course:

Login to the Blackboard system.
Enter the old course.
Select the Control Panel.
Click on Export Course (in the lower left hand corner of the panel). 
Select all the areas of the course you would like to copy (do not copy 
enrollments). 
Follow the instructions to save the .zip (WinZip archive) file on your 
local computer (remember the location you have saved the archive file to on 
your personal computer)

Once archived the courses may be imported into any of your future courses.

Generally speaking, CUNY plans to archive courses after 14-15 months.  
Archives will be available to BCTC staff but may require several days to 
restore so faculty should primarily rely upon their own archives.