Faculty access ends December 31, 2022

This is a reminder that faculty can still access all their course content, student rosters and gradebooks in Blackboard until December 31, 2022. Faculty may retrieve content, including individual files, grade exports and other data for building their courses in paskwâwi-mostos mêskanâs if they haven’t already done so.

Here are instructions on how to save files from the Content Collection in Blackboard.

Please note that Blackboard Learn full-course backups use a proprietary format that is not usable without Blackboard software, so keeping full-course backups has extremely limited value.

Blackboard fully decommissioned April 30, 2023

During the Winter 2023 term, only administrative staff will be able to access Blackboard. A request process will be in place for faculty to request, incidentally, last-minute retrieval of content and data that was missed earlier.

On April 30, 2023, all Blackboard Learn servers at MacEwan University will be turned off and all underlying databases will be destroyed.

Please contact dle@macewan.ca if you have any questions.

From the Centre for Teaching and Learning