This page provides you with information related to Summer and Fall 2026 courses, advising organizations, as well as information about the deprecation process for our Blackboard environment, happening now until June 2028.
Fall 2026 Courses
Course of record shells for Fall 2026 courses have been created in Canvas and are now available on your Canvas Dashboard, under “Unpublished Courses.” If you can’t locate your shells, contact your chair to ensure you are listed as the instructor in Colleague. QILT cannot enroll you as an instructor in a course of record.
🌟 Preparing Your Course
To get started preparing your fall course, reference our Getting Your Canvas Course Ready for the First Day of Class guide.
Remember, all courses in Fall 2026 will use 
Canvas and your course content will not automatically be moved from Blackboard to Canvas. If you would like to move content, we highly recommend meeting with a learning designer who can guide you through the considerations and process. Certain features (e.g., tests and pools) may not move cleanly, and many faculty find it easier to rebuild in Canvas instead.
🛟 Help and Support
- For learning design assistance as you build your course, schedule time with a designer.
- For Canvas guides and resources, visit the Canvas page on the QILT website. 24x7x365 support is available in the Help menu of Canvas for students, faculty, and staff.
- If you use LTI tools (such as textbook publisher integrations) and need a tool integrated or have issues, submit a QU IT ticket. If you are working with one of our learning designers, they will connect you with IT as needed.
- If you have questions, reach out to us!
We look forward to supporting you through this transition and helping you prepare a strong course experience in Canvas.
Advising Organizations
Advising organizations have been created in Canvas and are now available on your Canvas Dashboard, under “Unpublished Courses.” Your advisees will not be able to access the organization until you publish it (if you choose to do so). If you have questions or need support, submit a QU IT ticket.
Blackboard Deprecation (Now - June 2028)
The Teaching and Classroom Technology team has been working on logistics for deprecating our Blackboard environment. Please see below for a note to the faculty and staff community.
Dear Faculty and Staff, As previously announced, Canvas will serve as our primary LMS for all courses beginning in Fall 2026. Blackboard will remain available under our current contract through June 30, 2028, for access to historical materials and records, however, they have confirmed that Blackboard Learn Original will be deprecated on December 31, 2026.
Key Dates
2026
Recommended deadline of October 31, 2026 for exporting or downloading any Blackboard course and organization content you would like to keep.
Blackboard Learn Original courses and organizations become read-only for all users on December 31, 2026.
This date is enforced by Blackboard and cannot be changed.
After this date, all Original courses and organizations will become read-only for everyone, including instructors, students, organization leaders, and administrators. Content will remain viewable, but no one will be able to modify content or interact with collaborative integrated tools.
Please make alternate plans if you anticipate students will need to complete work in an Original course or organization past this date.
2027
End of access to Original courses and organizations for faculty, students, and administrators on October 31, 2027.
Blackboard will begin auto-converting Original courses and organizations into Ultra courses. Since Quinnipiac is not adopting Ultra view in Blackboard, content may no longer be available in usable form. This date is enforced by Blackboard and cannot be changed.
2028
Institutional access to Blackboard ends on June 30, 2028.
What You Should Do (Recommended by October 31, 2026)
To avoid disruption and preserve materials you may want in Canvas, consider taking one or more of the following actions:
- Export/Download critical Blackboard Learn Original course and organization content; recall that Original materials will still be accessible to view and/or download even when in a read-only state.
- Export content for import into a Canvas sandbox, if you plan to rebuild/adapt materials in Canvas, schedule a meeting with a QILT learning designer.
- Plan ahead for tools/integrations, third party content items that depend on Original‑only placements or Original architecture may stop working once courses are converted/removed; for instance, a link to publisher materials may stop working in a course that is made read-only, but if content still exists outside of Blackboard in a publisher site, that should continue to be independently accessible.
Courses
If you’d like help exporting Blackboard content or planning a migration path, schedule a meeting with a QILT learning designer. Submit a Technology Help Request for problems or errors and for planning tool/integration transitions.
Organizations
Use this form to request a new organization in Canvas. If you’d like guidance on moving Blackboard organization content to Canvas, please indicate this in the form.
A detailed FAQ (including what remains possible in courses and organizations after December 31, 2026 can be found at the bottom of this page.
Canvas
Canvas will support the core teaching workflows you rely on today—content, assignments, discussions, assessments, grading, and common integrations. You also have access to create Canvas sandboxes for course development, testing, and content migration, with training and hands‑on consultation, and technical support available from QILT, Teaching and Classroom Technology, and Canvas support services.
Thank you, Teaching and Classroom Technology (TCT) Quinnipiac Innovations in Learning and Teaching (QILT)
