Blackboard Learn policy change on copying and restoring courses
As of today, courses older than five years as well as any CourseInfo courses (LMS used prior to Blackboard 8) will no longer be copied or restored into Blackboard Learn. This was a policy decision made by the Blackboard Learn service owners and Steering Committee.
In the Copy a site section of the Blackboard Learn support form at http://www.bu.edu/help/blackboard, the Blackboard 8 courses that an instructor is enrolled in will no longer show up automatically. Their Blackboard Learn courses will be the only ones to automatically populate on the form. The search feature can be used, but it will only bring up Blackboard 8 courses from within the past five years.
Any courses older than five years on any platform (CourseInfo, Blackboard 8, Blackboard Vista or Blackboard Learn) will not show up in the form’s search results. For any client insisting that they restore a course older than five years, assign the ticket to the Educational Technology, Training, & Outreach group with an internal note requesting that the Blackboard Learn service owner be assigned the ticket.
This information can also be viewed in KB article number KB0010611.