Batch files are delimited files that allow you to create or copy as many as 500 courses at one time. To learn more about creating batch files, see Batch File Guidelines for Courses.

Create courses in batch

  2. Point to Create Course and select Batch from the list.
  4. In the File Upload window, navigate to the batch file and select Open.
  6. Select Submit.

Copy courses in batch

To better serve your integration needs, the new SIS Framework provides an improved interface for managing and processing Snapshot based data. While current command-line based snapshots will continue to work with legacy data objects, the Snapshot command line tool and the Snapshot XML data format are deprecated in Blackboard Learn 9.1 Service Pack 8 and will receive only maintenance fixes. Additionally, the Snapshot command line tools will be removed in the Learn SaaS deployment.

You can copy multiple courses at once with a batch file and the Snapshot command-line tool.


You can create new courses with the batch copy, or you can copy course information and content into an existing course. If the destination course already exists, the batch copy updates the course information but does not overwrite any course content.

  1. Create the batch file. The batch copy file format does not follow the same rules as the batch file for creating a new course. Instead, the batch copy uses the Snapshot flat file format.



