LITS is archiving fall 2022-spring 2023 academic courses and non-academic courses that have not been accessed in three or more years, and will begin removing them from Moodle on October 15. You will receive an email message if your course is included.
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 academic 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- Academic courses from fall 2017-spring 2022 have already been archived in this way and LITS has been restoring them into new course shells upon request since fall 2020.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 2022-spring 2023 courses, please do so before October 15.
- 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 15.
- 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.