This guide explains
- How to delete content from your Blackboard course.
- How to restore files, or purge, from the ‘Recycle’ folder.
How to delete content from your Blackboard course?
This requires 2 stages, covered in this guide.
- Deleting items from your course homepage (‘Content’):
When deleting items from the course homepage (‘Content’), this action will only remove the display of the content. It does not immediately delete associated files from the course file repository (‘Content Collection’), meaning they still count towards your course storage quota and can be restored (up to 30 days from deletion, via ‘Recycle’ bin). - Deleting files from your course file repository (‘Content Collection’):
To completely remove a file from your Blackboard course, and gain more storage space, you should check it is deleted from both the course homepage (‘Content’) and course file repository (‘Content Collection’). This will likely include emptying the ‘Recycle’ folder in ‘Content Collection’.
Note: Only uploaded files, or those copied to the course, are stored in the ‘Content Collection’ and count towards your storage quota. All other content types, such as Documents, Links, Discussions, Submission Points etc are not stored.
1. Deleting items from your course homepage (‘Content’)
To delete items from your Blackboard course homepage:
- Click “three dots” for relevant content item
- From the drop down, click “Delete”
Accidently deleted a submission point with marks, and student submissions?
Raise a support ticket within 30 days of deletion.
2. Deleting items from your course file repository (‘Content Collection’)
- To access your course file repository, go to the Blackboard homepage>Tools>Content Collection:
2. Find your course:
a) Click ‘Course content’
b) Select ‘Show all’
c) Press Ctrl+f on your keyboard, this opens a search bar. Begin typing your course name to see it highlighted in the list.
3. Find your content:
a) You can sort the lists into ascending or descending order, to do this: click any column heading (‘FILE TYPE’, ‘NAME’, last ‘EDITED’, file ‘SIZE’ etc) and click a second time to change the order.
b) One of the folders will be titled ‘Recycle Bin’. It contains files that have been ‘deleted’ from your course homepage (‘Content’). If you need to restore or empty this folder, check the next section of this guide.
c) You can check the available storage at any time. The total storage available to courses is 5GB.
d) If your files are listed over several page, scroll to the bottom of the page and click ‘Show All’.
‘Recycle’ bin: How to restore files, or purge the folder?
- Open the course file repository “Content Collection” via Blackboard homepage>Tools>Content Collection>Course Content (scroll to locate and select your course folder).
- Open “Recycle” folder (you may need to scroll up/down to find the folder, or use Ctrl+F to open a search field)
- Locate and select the file/s you would like to restore
- Press “Restore” to send the files back to the Content Collection (the ‘Restore’ option will appear at the top of the page, only for files or folders which can be restored).
- Or press “Empty Bin” to purge, and delete files permanently. You will have additional storage space.
Guide last updated on October 15, 2024
