Backing Up A Course

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We recommend that you backup your Moodle course before making big changes or at the end of each term. Doing so will:

  • ensure the backup preserves the latest version of your course, and
  • provides immediate access to your content should you need to restore it.

Provisioned courses will remain in Moodle for 2 years. If you wish to keep course content beyond 2 years, you need to save the course backup locally or restore it to a course in your staging area.

If you did not back up your course and it is no longer available in Moodle, you can request the backup file for your course by submitting an OLET ticket. Please include the term, year, course number, and section number in your request.

Enter the course you want to backup

Scroll to the top of the main page of your course.

Click the More option from the secondary navigation.

Select Course reuse.

Click the Backup option.

Scroll to the bottom of the page.

Click the Jump to final step button.

NOTE: If you wish to only backup specific items you can deselect the items you do not wish to copy and click on the Next button. When you get to the last page you will click on the Perform backup button.

Wait a moment for the backup process to complete.

Once it is finished, you will be taken to the Complete screen.

Click on the Continue button.

You will be taken to the Restore page.

Click Download to the right of the course you backed up.

If the Save As dialogue appears, choose where you would like to save the file, and the file name you would like to use. Then click Save.

NOTE: If a dialogue box does not appear the file was likely saved to your downloads folder by default. You will need to move and rename the file later.

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