It is important that Administrators clean up the Blackboard Content System on a regular basis, such as at the end of each semester. As courses, organizations and users are removed from the Blackboard Learning System, the Administrator must remove them from the Blackboard Content System.
When a course is removed from the Blackboard Learning System (Administrator Panel > Remove Course), the Administrator must remove it from the Blackboard Content System. Courses that are removed no longer appear in the Blackboard Content System; however, they are not removed. The Administrator may search for the course and it will display in the search results. Users who have permissions to the course folder (aside from Course User permissions) may also search for and locate the course.
If a new course is created in the Blackboard Learning System with the same Course ID as the course that was deleted, issues will arise if the course was not removed from the Blackboard Content System. The course will not be created in the Blackboard Content System, because it already exists.
Follow the steps below to remove a course from the Blackboard Content System
Select Manage Content on the Administrator Panel.
Select Search Content and search for the course folder.
Select the check box next to the course folder on the Search Results page and select Remove.
When a user is removed from the Blackboard Learning System (Administrator Panel > Remove Users from System), the user is not automatically removed from the Blackboard Content System. The user’s folder will no longer appear, but it may be searched and located. The Administrator must remove the user from the Blackboard Content System so issues do not arise.
If the user is not removed from the Blackboard Content System and a user with the same username is added to the Blackboard Learning System, a folder with this username will appear in the Blackboard Content System. However, this will be the folder for the original user, with all of the original contents and permissions intact.
Follow the steps below to remove a user from the Blackboard Content System
Select Manage Content on the Administrator Panel.
Select Search Content and search for the user’s folder.
Select the check box next to the user on the Search Results page and select Remove.