Cleans up Blackboard assignment files downloaded in bulk from the gradebook
When you download all the files for a specific assignment as a .zip file from the Blackboard gradebook, two undesirable things happen:
- The student files are renamed from filename.ext to assignmentname_username_attempt_datetime_filename.ext
- A text file is created for each student named assignmentname_username_attempt_datetime.txt even if the student has not entered any text data or comments.
This script will:
- Delete all .txt files with no student text data or comments
- Rename remaining .txt files to username.txt
- Rename all other files to username-userfilename.ext
Call the script as:
python bbcleanup.py directory-to-cleanup