31. Course backup in Moodle 3.3 Video Lecture | Moodle: Create Personalized Online Class - Professional Skills

Course backup: save and reuse your course
As a teacher it's useful to have a copy
of our course that we can keep safe
outside of Moodle perhaps to reuse it in
a different Moodle site such as our
organisation or school site, or add it to
our personal Moodlecloud side to
continue developing it, or even give a
copy to a colleague.
Moodle calls this copy
a backup, and to make a backup of our
course we need to click the gear menu
and then Backup.
This is how you would
save a copy of the course that you will
have created for the Teaching with
Moodle MOOC.
When we click the link Backup
we need to follow the instructions to
decide what exactly we want to bring
over with our copy of the course.
and note
if you're an experienced Moodler you can
jump to the final step if you know what
you're doing, but for us beginners the
first thing to know is that there are Xs
next to Enrolled users and User
information.
This means that because we are teachers
and for security reasons we can only
back up the actual course content
resources and activities we can't back
up the information, the data that our
learners have included.
If you need to
have a course with all of your learner
data then you need to have your
administrator back it up for you.
We basically want to include everything
else and so we scroll down and click
Next.
On the next screen we are presented
with a list of all our activities and
resources and we need to decide which
ones we want to keep.
By default all of
them are selected so for instance if I
didn't want to include an item i could
untick that box and again, we scroll
down and once we've decided which
activities we want to include and leave
out, we click the Next button.
We are then prompted to check all of our
settings.
Our backup course has been
given a file name,which we can rename if
we want or leave it as it is, and then we
scroll down to make sure that all the
settings and included activities other
ones we want.
If we made a mistake we
can simply go back to the previous
screen and change it.
Now it's time to
click the button to perform the backup,
and we get a message that the backup
file was successfully created.
Clicking
the Continue button will take us to
where we can get a copy of this backup
file to download it and save it offline.
If we scroll down we can see our User
private backup area, which tells us the
course and the size of it and the time
that we actually backed it up,
so if you want to get this out of our
Learn Moodle site to, say for instance, to
keep on your computer.
a CD or USB drive,
you click the Download button and save
it.
Note you cannot open this course upon
your computer; it will only open on a
different Moodle site, so to add your
course into a different Moodle site such
as Moodlecloud watch the video on
Course restore.