How to Request Deletion of a Blackboard Course or Organization

Summary

This article describes what is appropriate to remove form Blackboard and considerations to be made before requesting.

Course Instructors and Organization Leaders now have the ability to request that courses and organizations be deleted from Blackboard.

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Academic courses, those that have a course ID that looks like MATH_1200_101_LEC_FALL_2022-23, can be deleted under either of the following circumstances:

Course/organization deletion is permanent; once a course/organization is deleted, the content cannot be recovered. Make sure to save copies of any content you want to retain, including downloading a copy of your grade book.
If you co-taught the course with additional instructors, please consult with them to ensure they have copies of any content they would like before the course is deleted.
If you co-led the organization with additional leaders, please consult them to ensure they have copies of any content they would like before the organization is deleted.

Any instructor of the course may request that a course be deleted. Any leader of an organization may request that an organization be deleted.

You request that a course or organization be deleted by selecting the Request Course Deletion button on the right side of this page.

You will need to know the Course or Organization ID (this is the part with the underscores).

Outcome: You should now know when to request a Blackboard course or organization be deleted and the steps for doing so.

Article ID: 1171

Created

Tue 11/26/24 3:23 PM

Modified

Wed 11/27/24 1:18 PM

Request Blackboard Course Deletion

Course Instructors and Organization Leaders now have the ability to request that courses and organizations be deleted from Blackboard.