LITS has archived fall 2020-spring 2022 academic courses and will begin removing them from Moodle on October 16.
About course archiving
- Per our Moodle policy, we must remove old courses from Moodle periodically to make way for new course content and to ensure optimal application performance.
- To ensure instructors can continue to reuse those course materials in future courses, we create back-ups that preserve the course layout, resources and activities and move them to archival storage before removing them from Moodle.
- Instructors cannot access archived courses directly, but can ask LITS to copy them into a new course shell at any time.
- Academic courses from fall 2017-summer 2020 have already been archived in this way and LITS has been restoring them into new course shells upon request since fall 2020.
What action is required?
- If you wish to export content from fall 2020-spring 22 courses, please do so before October 16.
- You only need to export course materials and questions if you plan to use them outside of Moodle (including in other learning management systems).
- For privacy and security reasons, archival back-ups do not contain student data or content. You must export this content to retain it beyond October 16.
- See Moodle: Export Course Data and Content for how-to info.
- Otherwise, you need to do nothing.
- In future semesters, simply request LITS copy an archived course into a new shell once it is created.
If you have any questions or would like help exporting content from Moodle, please schedule a consultation with an educational technologist or email help@brynmawr.edu to connect with our Moodle support team.