Steps to Decrease Blackboard Course Size
In order to prevent potential problems in the future, it is recommended to clean your courses from time to time. Large courses can impact Blackboard performance over time and cause issues when completing course copies. Below you will find a few recommendations to decrease the size of your course without impacting your teaching.
Duplicate Content/Multiple Imported Content Folder
Check your course’s content collection for duplicated files and folders.
建议
- Remove any duplicated files or folders. (TIP: 使用 360° View to identify content that is linked to areas in your course), or
- Create a new folder and relink the course content items.
视频和音频文件
Check if you have any video or audio files stored in your Blackboard course content.
建议
- Migrate your videos from your Blackboard course content to Panopto.
视频作业
If you required video assignment submissions in your course, the student submissions can make your course size to exceed your course size limit.
建议
- 使用 Panopto学生视频提交 tool for any video assignments required in your course.
- Share these instructions with your students on how to submit a Panopto video assignment.
大文件
Check your course’s content collection for large files and determine if these could be resized. Ex.
PDF Documents, Images, PowerPoints, etc.
建议
- Reduce the file size by compressing files or reducing dimensions.
未使用的内容
Review your course for content that is no longer used.
建议
- Delete unused content from content areas and the content collection.
从云存储添加文件
为你的课程节省空间, you may add files to your course from Cloud Storage solutions such as OneDrive, 谷歌驱动, 和Dropbox.
建议
- Add files from Cloud Storage such as 谷歌驱动 or OneDrive. 了解更多.
