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Saving a backup of your course

Saving a backup of your course - Moodle Tutorial

From the course: Moodle 2.8 Essential Training

Saving a backup of your course

- Let's imagine you've gone through teaching an entire course with Moodle. And you did so very successfully, I might add. Just like you would tell your students writing a paper, You should save your work. It's time to make a Moodle backup. In the administration block, click the backup link. On the initial Backup settings page, choose if it should be saved according to IMS common cartridge standards, which means it can go into other learning management systems. And select what you want to include. Such as the users, comments, question bank, and so on. I'll stick with what Moodle has suggested, and I'll click Next in the bottom right corner. On the Schema settings page, in the left column, select which resources and activities you want in the back up. In the right column, also select which activities should keep the user data. You can see the user data has an X in every row. That's because I did not select user data on the previous page. I'll click the Next button. On the confirmation…

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