Opening an Archive

Please note that this document has 2 steps

• opening an archive
• copying the information into desired class, if applicable.

After you determine how you want to use your archive and where you want to put it, follow these steps to open your archive.  

Note:  If you want to copy only one or a few items from your archive into a class, read Copying One Item Into a Class before you continue with these instructions.

1. Determine whether you want to put the material in a new class or in the desired class.  
    
   • If you wish to put the material in the desired class, continue on with step #2.
   • If you wish to put the material into a new class, read Opening Archive Material in a New Class.
      
2. Open the class into which you wish to put the archived material.  In some cases, this may be the temporary class that has been set up for your archive.
    
3. Go to the Control Panel.
    
4. Under Course Options on the bottom left-hand side, click on Import Package.
    
5. Under step #2 "Select a Package," browse your computer for the location of the desired archive.
    
6. Select that archive.
    
7. Click Open.
    
8. Under step #3 "Select Course Materials," determine if you want to 
   • use all or most of your archive
   • use only selected material from your archive 

   Note:  If you have any of the same material in your current class as in your archive, you will have duplicates after you finish your archive.  Also, your course navigation may change or be duplicated.

    

9.   Click Submit.  You will receive a receipt that acknowledges that your archive was imported successfully. 

Note:  You can only open a Blackboard archive into a Blackboard class.  You cannot open the archive in any other software system.

Final Steps

• If you have imported your archive into the class which needs the material, all you have to do is delete what you do or do not want. 

Note:  You will not be deleting the items from the original archive.  Those items are still safely stored on your computer and will not be effected by your deletion of items in your class.

• If you have imported the information into a temporary archive class, you must now copy the desired information into your desired class.

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