If you are leaving the University, please note that your IT account will be deactivated a few weeks after you complete your course. Once your IT username is closed, you will no longer have access to any University of Reading IT systems, including Blackboard.
If you have any files stored on University systems that you wish to keep, please ensure you retrieve them before your account is closed.
To help you prepare, you will receive a notification email 30 days prior to the closure of your account.
Steps: How to download content from a Blackboard course?
- Log in to Blackboard.
- Open your course.
- Go to the content item (e.g., file, document, link, or a submission point).
- Open content item, choose download or copy and paste the text into a Word document.
- To download feedback, open the submission points to view marks and feedback, then copy and paste the feedback into a Word document.
Please note
- Blackboard doesn’t have the option to download feedback or study material in bulk.
- Downloading of videos from Blackboard is not permitted. Please check: Student Policy for the Recording of Teaching & Learning Activities
- remember to download Dissertations and other coursework files from Blackboard and OneDrive, as your Support Centre staff won’t be able to retrieve these for you once you’ve left the university.
- always keep backup of all the submitted work especially dissertation on secure storage (both offline and online [cloud drive]).
Files you may need to save include:
- documents or files stored on OneDrive. See guide “Download files and folders from OneDrive or SharePoint“
- emails. See guide “Export emails, contacts, and calendar items to Outlook using a .pst file“
- coursework from Blackboard
- feedback on assessed work from Blackboard. See guide “Finding your Marks and Feedback” i.e.
- work submitted to Turnitin assignments / feedback on work submitted to Turnitin assignments
- work submitted to Blackboard assignments / feedback on work submitted to Blackboard assignments
- any other personal files stored on university computers.
Guide last updated on August 6, 2026