FIRST: create a backup of the course. This is just a 'snapshot' of the course contents, students and student contributions in its current state.
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- On the course homepage, under the Administration panel, click "Backup"
- Uncheck anything you don't want in the back up
- This third page (Schema Settings) will tell you everything, down to the document, that will be included in your back up. The right-hand side lists the contents of the course, and on the left is a check box for user data associated with that content. If you know you don't really need every document or every assignment, streamline and un-check the items you don't need.
- You'll now get a confirmation of everything that will be included in your back up. When you click "Perform Backup" on this screen, the actual backup file will get generated. Depending upon the size of your course, this step could take a while. You'll get a message that says "The backup file was successfully created."
- Now you'll see a page with a list of all the backup files for this course (Moodle automatically generates a backup file every few days, and saves a couple of versions in your course file directory.) Click "Download" to the right of the top file (it will have today's date. You can change the file name when you save it to your own computer drive.
NEXT: Reset the course. By resetting you'll have the option to remove the current students and all of the data associated with the current students (grades, blog posts, etc). It's true, you could just go into the user section and delete each person individually, but occasionally this presents some issues: first, your Moodle course retains the student data in files, which increases the size of the course each year. Additionally, if you have a student that starts your course one semester, then drops and decides to enroll in a future semester, Moodle will think that student has already completed some of the course!
Here's a short video on resetting:
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