Blackboard 9 course life cycle
26 Nov 2013
Blackboard courses for 2011/12 and earlier will disappear on 1 December 2013
What is affected?
Blackboard 9 courses for the academic year 2011/12 and earlier.
What is happening?
According to the course life cycle, these course units will be made unavailable to staff.
When will this happen?
You will lose access to these course units on 1 December 2013.
All course units for the 2012/13 academic year will continue to be available until 1 December 2014.
The table below outlines the course life cycle:
| 2011/2012 academic year | |
| Semester 1, All Year and Semester 2 courses no longer available to students | 2 September 2012 |
| Semester 1, All Year courses and Semester 2 courses no longer available to staff | 1 December 2013 |
| 2012/2013 academic year | |
| Semester 1, All Year and Semester 2 courses no longer available to students | 8 September 2013 |
| Semester 1, All Year courses and Semester 2 courses no longer available to staff | 1 December 2014 |
| 2013/2014 academic year | |
| Blackboard course spaces become available to students | 9 September 2013 |
| Semester 1 week 1 (teaching begins) | 23 September 2013 |
| Semester 1, All Year and Semester 2 courses no longer available to students | 14 September 2014 |
| Semester 1, All Year courses and Semester 2 courses no longer available to staff | 1 December 2015 |
This information is also available in an article on the Knowledge Base.
What do you need to do?
If you think you may need content or details of student work from any of these course units, you should take the necessary action to download data and store it locally.
No other action is required.
Further queries
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