Based on our policy of retaining Moodle sites for four years from the date of their creation, the 2006-11 Moodle archive (http://moodlearchive.kenyon.edu/2006-11/) will be taken down in November, 2014.
There are six types of material instructors may wish to retain from the 2006-11 Moodle archive and four ways to retain material from the archive. Unfortunately, there is no single method which will allow you to retain all types of content at once. What follows is a list of the content types with the methods we recommend for retaining them, in order of preference.
1. Backup your course, including student data, download the backup file and browse to your students’ files on your computer. Because there are many folders to wade through in a backup file, you may want to refer to this short guide to retrieving the student files. Student files can not be moved to another Moodle site using the restore process.
Student non-file submissions to activities (i.e., assignment online text, forum posts, quiz responses, database activities, etc.)
2. Take screenshots or print to PDF. Student data such as this cannot be restored to another Moodle site from a course backup, therefore your only option is to save images of what your students submitted to such activities. This allows you to save an image of the course page. Printing a web page to PDF may not always produce an accurate representation of your course page, depending on the theme or content of your homepage. If the results of printing to PDF are not satisfactory, try taking a screenshot instead. Follow this guide to print to PDF on a Mac. On Windows, we recommend installing doPDF for printing to PDF. Follow this guide to take a screenshot on a Mac or this guide to take a screenshot on Windows.
1. Backup your course. Course files can be restored to other Moodle sites or you can browse the downloaded backup file for your course files if you wish to retain them in your own storage space.
2. Use files export feature.
1. Use the gradebook export feature to export to Excel or (perhaps) CSV.
Backup your course. Course backups include activities and they can be restored to other Moodle sites; however, due to changes in how Moodle activities function from version 1.9 to versions 2.x, their performance is not always reliable when restored from Moodle 1.9 directly to current versions.
Take screenshots or print to PDF. This allows you to save an image of the course page. Printing a web page to PDF may not always produce an accurate representation of your course page, depending on the theme or content of your homepage. If the results of printing to PDF are not satisfactory, try taking a screenshot instead. Follow this guide to print to PDF on a Mac. On Windows, we recommend installing doPDF for printing to PDF. Follow this guide to take a screenshot on a Mac or this guide to take a screenshot on Windows.