Blackboard Course Removal Policy

Blackboard courses with a Course ID that includes a semester designation (e.g. 2008-2009 FALL) will be deleted 4 years after the course has been completed.

Purpose

To remove old courses that are no longer needed in order to free up system resources.

Examples

Spring 2008-2009 courses in Blackboard will be deleted in May 2013. Spring 2009-2010 courses in Blackboard will be deleted in May 2014.

Note: In order to save a copy of your course content, you can Export your course using the "Export/ Archive Course" feature located under the Packages and Utilities option in the control panel. Save the resulting export (.zip) file to your local computer. Course exports do not contain student work such as journal entries, discussion forum postings, grades, or assignment submissions. If you need to save this information, please do so manually. You can use the "Work Offline–Download" feature located in the Grade Center to retain a copy of student grades.

Exceptions

If you would like your course removed from Blackboard prior to the 4 year cycle, you may email the Course ID to blackboard@olemiss.edu, and we will remove it for you.

If your course is not tied to a specific semester (e.g. Applied Sciences Research Series ORG, ISHS, IS, etc.), it will not be included in the yearly course cleanup cycle.

Panopto Video Retention Policy

The University of Mississippi retention policy governs the archive and deletion process for all videos hosted within Panopto.

  • Videos that have not been viewed in 18 months will automatically be archived.
  • This auto-archive process occurs once each month.
  • Archived videos may be restored to Panopto active status at any time within 18 months.*
  • If it is important for a video to remain available, open the video and play it at least once every eighteen months to prevent it from being auto-archived.
  • Archived videos will be permanently deleted if they have not been viewed in 3 years.
  • NOTE: Users are not notified prior to files being archived or deleted.

Panopto is for hosting regularly used, active video materials—Panopto is not an unlimited video storage system. Videos that are not used with regularity or need to be kept indefinitely should be manually downloaded from Panopto and stored elsewhere.

* See How to Restore Archived Content for information on restoring an archived video.