Posts Tagged ‘restore’
The Worlds Largest Moodle Backup File (and how to avoid it)
Here's a quick tip to keep your Moodle from becoming out of shape and over weight, illustrated with a quick story. A few years ago I was in charge of managing 80 courses that were tailored for teacher professional development. The courses ran every 6 weeks or so which required a new version of the course to be restored (but always from the most [...]
Course converted from 1.9 to 2.0…but where did the files go?
There was a comment on the most recent ConversionThingy2 release post which had focused on the conversion of 1.9 backups to 2.0 MBZ files. The question from Kerry J at BrightCookie was What happens to the files that were formerly stored in the course files? Good news is that the files are restored and that they are available in the site Server [...]
@digidoug shows how to restore last year’s Moodle course backup
Doug, (@digidoug) the author “Reflections on Distributed Learning” (http://distlearn.wordpress.com/), published a quick post that highlights the process of restoring a previous term or year's Moodle backup file. Here’s a link to the great post: http://distlearn.wordpress.com/2010/08/30/restoring-last-years-moodle-backup/ Doug also [...]
New at @Moodleshare: 11 more courses
Jon Fila at Moodleshare.com has been posting new courses on almost a daily basis. Over the last two weeks alone almost 20 new titles/short course modules have been added at http://courses.moodleshare.com. Titles include: Art history Moodling: Using Online Courseware for Ubiquitous Learning Sloodle Demo course Creative Writing [...]
Moodle Monday: Moving resources between courses by @timdalton
Today I needed to move a whole set of resources from one course to another. Last year we had a 'Learning to Learn' course on Moodle that all students followed during tutor time. However, the page grew over the year to a point where there were too many resources so this year we are creating a different course for each year group. So, what I need to [...]
Moodle Monday: The fastest way to prepare courses/users for next year by @timdalton
End of the school year means start of the boring admin paperwork ready for next... This is a job I've just completed for one of our partner schools so I thought it was worth documenting as many others will be going through the same process at some point over the Summer break. We needed to do a few things- remove students that have left, move [...]
Moodle Course Round-up (where are all the shared courses?) #OER
There are a few sites around the web that host Moodle courses available for download. MoodleCommons http://moodlecommons.org/ MoodleShare http://courses.moodleshare.com/ Moodle http://moodle.org/mod/glossary/view.php?id=918 Demo Moodle http://demo.moodle.net/ Between them there are over 100 courses available to download and restore to [...]
2 dozen courses for download at demo.moodle.net RT @moodlehelen
Thanks to Helen Foster (@moodlehelen) for originally posting the details. Http://demo.moodle.net has around two dozen courses that you can download and use due to their CC licenses. Most of the courses are a product of the "Cool Course Competition" which occurred earlier this year (more info about the Cool Course Comp: [...]
