As announced on May 17, 2006, OIT will begin to archive old courses that have been taking up space on the Blackboard production server. Following discussions with the Faculty Senate’s Computer Policy Committee (CPC) and the University’s IT Steering Committee (ITSC), all courses older then one academic year will gradually be archived and moved from the main production server to an archive server. This process will begin with our oldest courses from 2000 and 2001, starting on August 7, 2006. As a result, archiving should make current courses run faster and aide the normal backup process carried out each day and for planned upgrades. Archived courses will continue to be available to faculty for retrieving content, but will not be available for use by students. For more information, see the white paper OIT developed to describe the problem and the archiving procedure.
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