Downloading Your Blackboard Course Content (for instructors)
As an instructor, you may wish to download your course content from Blackboard either for your records, to save for accreditation reasons, or to keep a record of older courses. There are several ways you can download your content. See the options below.
You have the ability to download all course files from your Blackboard Course into a .zip file.
- In your Blackboard course, click Files under the Course Management section in the left menu.
- Click the course ID.
- At the bottom of the page, click Show All.
- Click the box to select all.
- Click Download Package.
- All files will be downloaded to your computer.
In some cases you may wish to download the Blackboard Grade center to preserve your grading records. This can be done in any of your Blackboard Courses.
See https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Grade/Grading_Tasks/Work_Offline_With_Grade_Data for more information
Blackboard allows you to download all student assignment submissions for individual assignments at once. However, this does not download all submissions for all assignments at once. You will need to repeat the process for each assignment.
Note that this will download original student submissions only, and does not include feedback or comments from an instructor.
- If you wish to download Blackboard assignments see https://help.blackboard.com/Learn/Instructor/Assignments/Download_Assignments
- To download discussion board posts, please see Search and Collect Posts
- If you have any any other third party content e.g. Turnitin Assignments, Kaltura Media, Echo360, SCORM content, etc. you should also refer to the vendors instructions on how to download and save this material locally also.
- If you are using Kaltura, your video files will be stored under your My Media on Kaltura, and will be retained there.
Exporting your course downloads all of the course content and materials into a .zip file that can be used to import back to Blackboard at a later date.
This is primarily used to keep a copy of your entire course to use in the future.
- Login to Blackboard and go to the course you wish to archive.
- Click Packages and Utilities under the Course Management in the left menu.
- Click Export/Archive Course.
- Click Export Course.
- Click the box to select all content.
- Click Submit.
- You will get the following notification: Success: This action has been queued. An email will be sent when the process is complete.
- You can either click Refresh on the Export/Archive Course page if you are there or you can go back to that page
- Click the link to download the archive of the course.
- Save this zip file to your computer or your Office 365 account securely.
The .zip file will download to your computer.DO NOT UNZIP BLACKBOARD ARCHIVE OR EXPORT ZIP FILES.These files must remain zipped in order to be reuploaded to Blackboard.
Archiving your course downloads all of the course content and materials including the grade center into a .zip file. This is primarily used to keep a record of your course, and includes student data.
If you want to access these materials again to use in the future, we recommend that you export the course as explained above. It is easier to import an export of a course that it is to import an archive of a course. Archived course may not properly import, and you will need to contact a system administrator to undertake this action.
How to archive your course:
- Login to Blackboard and go to the course you wish to archive.
- Click Packages and Utilities under the Course Management in the left menu.
- Click Export/Archive Course.
- Click Archive Course.
- Click the box next to Include Grade Center History if you wish to include the grade center in your archive.
- Click Submit.
- You will get the following notification: Success: This action has been queued. An email will be sent when the process is complete.
- You can either click Refresh on the Export/Archive Course page if you are there or you can go back to that page.
- Click the link to download the archive of the course.
- Save this zip file to your computer or your Office 365 account securely.
The .zip file will download to your computer.DO NOT UNZIP BLACKBOARD ARCHIVE OR EXPORT ZIP FILES.These files must remain zipped in order to be reuploaded to Blackboard. If you want an archive file restored, you will need to contact the Blackboard Administrator. NOTE: some large courses might not be able to be restored from archive files.
Not an instructor? Please refer to the student notes on saving files here .