As announced on May 17th, 2006, all courses older then one year are gradually being moved from the production server to an alternate archive called http://archive.umbc.edu, where they can be accessed. As of the date of this update, OIT has copied all of the courses prior to Fall 2002. After the 7.1 upgrade in January, OIT will likely delete archived courses from the main production server by the end of the Spring 2007 semester. If you have a course in Blackboard that was created prior to Fall 2002, you can access it by going to http://archive.umbc.edu. Remember that courses copied to the archive server can not be used for conducting classes as students will NOT have access to the archive server. The archived courses should serve as a place to retrieve course content and data from past courses and not a place to conduct classes.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Bob Armstrong at ext. 5-3885 or rarmstro@umbc.edu, or send an email to blackboard@umbc.edu.