Important for all Humber faculties and units,

With Humber’s move to Ultra and the need for additional storage, the Blackboard Purge Project will permanently delete old DEV, SBX and LIVE courses from the Blackboard server in two phases over the next few weeks. View the list of courses here to see if your courses are tagged to be purged in December 2021/January 2022.

Blackboard will start purging old courses in two phases.

Phase 1

By December 15th, 2021, all LIVE (Banner generated) course sites from Fall 2018 to Summer 2019 will be permanently purged. Should you wish to retain your course(s) you may submit a request by clicking on "Request to Retain" button beside the course record (see link above) with an explanation on why you wish to retain the course.

The deadline is Wednesday, December 8, 2021.

Your request to retain may not be approved and as such, if your course is tagged to be purged, please make a backup of it and download/save the backup on your device.

It will take at most 5 minutes to back up your course. 

For help with backing up your courses, check the tutorial:  Archiving Blackboard Original Courses

Phase 2

By January 14th, 2022, all DEV and SBX courses from the beginning of time until Summer 2019 will be permanently purged, unless marked as “Request to Retain” by January 8, 2022.

For help with backing up your courses, check the tutorial:  Archiving Blackboard Original Courses 

Thank you,

Digital Learning Team