ACTECH schedules purges of older Blackboard courses twice a year, typically in September and in March. This is part of our regular ongoing Blackboard maintenance, and these are academic CRN-based courses that were taught over a year ago, so they are past the deadline for incompletes or grade disputes.
On March 24, 2025, all Fall 2023, and Winter 2024 Blackboard courses will be removed from active status on Blackboard. While ACTECH has backups of the instructor’s Blackboard content, all student content—discussions, grades, assignment submissions, and any other student data—is not backed up. If your program is undergoing accreditation, it is the instructor's responsibility to download student submissions and gradebooks and store them on OneDrive.
Once the Blackboard course is purged, faculty will no longer have access to student data. If any student content needs to be kept for accreditation or any other reason, faculty should download it prior to March 24.
If faculty have any questions about Blackboard course deactivation or need assistance downloading student content, please contact Academic Technology, Teaching, and Learning (ACTECH) at 860.768.4661 or actech@hartford.edu.