Decommission of Blackboard LMS

How do I download content from Blackboard?

Downloading Course Files

You can download all or selected course files from your Blackboard Course into a .zip file.

1. Navigate to your course site
2. Select Content Collection under the Course Management in the left menu
3. Click the course ID
4. At the bottom of the page, click Show All
5. Click the box to select all, or select the desired files
6. Click Download Package
7. All files will be downloaded to your computer

Taking a screenshot

If there are any pages you wish to take a screenshot of, you can do so by using the following keyboard shortcuts:

Windows: Windows + Shift + S

Apple: Command + Shift + 4

Downloading Assessments

If you are wanting to bulk download student assessment submissions for a course you have been a course convenor for, you can do this via the Archive functionality that will produce a Blackboard Archive zip file of all of the course content and student marks/submissions (including students who have graduated or left the university). A link to the vendor documentation for how to download a course archive is below.

While this archive is meant for re-importing into another Blackboard instance, opening the archive will show folders within it and some of these will contain all of the student submissions depending on the assessment type used. While disabled accounts don't appear in the Blackboard user interface, all of their data is still stored within the course site behind the scenes and will therefore appear in the zip files.

Export and Archive Courses (Blackboard Help Center)

Please note that Blackboard Archive zip files contain personal identifiable information of students so you will need to treat these archive zip files in a secure way as you would with any other student data.