BLACKBOARD TIMELINE OF 

EVENTS FOR WINTER 2012 AND SPRING 2013

October 9^th 

• 2012 Winter Intersession course shells available
•  Instructors who are teaching Winter sections will have access to previous Winter 2011 and 2012 course content

November 15^th

• Blank Spring 2013 course shells available to all instructors
• Only courses from Spring 2012 will be available for reuse at this time

December 15^th 

• Fall 2011 and Summer 2012 courses and content available for copy into Winter 2012 and Spring 2013 blank shells

December 17^th 

• Fall 2012 courses will be will be moved to the in-house system (completion scheduled for January 9th)

• DO NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO YOUR FALL 2012 COURSES, ANY CHANGES MADE WILL NOT BE COPIED OVER

• Faculty and students will still have access to their Fall 2012 courses for final exams, grades, assignments, etc. until December 22^nd

•  No work should be done by students for Fall 2012 incompletes or by faculty between Dec. 17^th and Jan. 9^th

December 19^th

•  Students will have access to new in-house system for Winter 2012 courses and Fall 2012 incompletes only  

• Students should now use the new Board of Regents (BOR) Help Desk

December 22^nd  

• Current Blackboard Learn hosted system will no longer be available 

• All faculty and students will be working in the in-house system

December 31^st

• Blackboard’s 24/7 help desk is no longer available

• New BOR Help Desk information is provided in college templates

January 9^th  

• All Spring, Summer, Fall 2012 content will be available in the new in-house system