Why we love Moodle - Backup, Restore and Import (the keys to sharing!)

UPDATE: Note, if you're trying to restore a course to the new globalclassroom.us system, you MUST join a network before creating a course or you will get an error.

The greatest thing about Moodle is that any content built in it can be shared and replicated. A teacher with a great course about chemistry can share it with science teachers around the world easily, and the teachers finding it useful can take the whole course, bits and pieces or none at all. Additionally, as soon as you have access to a course as an editing teacher, you can import resources from that course into any of your other course instances.

It’s one of our favorite Moodle-abilities.

This week, learn how to: backup whole courses or just pieces in to compressed files which can be transfered, emailed, uploaded or downloaded to any Moodle; restore compressed Moodle courses to a new site; and how to import all, or some resources and activities from one of your courses to another.

1. Backup - available on YouTube and Moodletutorials.org*
2. Restore - available on YouTube and Moodletutorials.org
3. Import - available on YouTube and Moodletutorials.org

Start sharing with Moodle today!

*depending on the time of day streaming videos from MoodleTutorials may take a little while.  Rowan, the great site operator is working to improve this fantastic resource, so bear with us (him).