New Feature: get a course copy as an editing teacher

I wanted to let everyone know about a new feature on GlobalClassroom that does two things:

1. Helps you protect your content by sharing content with non-editing teachers
2. provides non-editing teachers the complete means to get a copy of your shared course!

On most Moodle sites worldwide, sharing a course and all of it's content with a teacher requires some manual labor (backing up the course and sending it to them) or creates a security risk (giving editing rights to another teacher puts the course in their hands, on the GlobalClassroom site editing teachers can even delete your course!).

To eliminate some of the leg work but provide a great opportunity to share resources and even complete classrooms with other teachers we've changed the non-editing teacher role. We now allow non-editing teachers in your courses to have access to the Backup and Files interfaces within your course.

In order to be listed as a non-editing teacher, the editing teacher will first have to add you using Assign Roles (this is located in the course Administration block, as are Backup and Files, though the Admin block will appear differently to non-editing teachers. Note that editing teachers are the only role in a course that can add additional users through Assign Roles).

Once a teacher is added to the non-editing role, they'll have access to the course either on their profile home page or on their My Courses tab.

If you're a non-editing teacher and you want to get a copy of a course, read on.

To start, login to the platform and access the course where you're listed as a non-editing teacher.

Next, click Backup to initiate the course backup process (this will create a zip file that you can upload and restore on the GlobalClassroom site or any other Moodle). As a non-editing teacher your administration block options will be much reduced.

The Backup process is comprised of several screens where you can choose to backup student data, no data, the course files, etc. My best recommendation, for the cleanest version of the course is to choose to backup without any user data, no logs, and no users. This will ensure that you do not inadvertently add users to another Moodle site or enroll students into your course if restored to the GlobalClassroom site.

Click through the screens of check boxes until your backup is complete (depending on the size of the course it could take several seconds or as long as a few minutes). Once the Backup is completed you'll see a screen that looks like this:

Right click on the zip file in order to save it locally to your computer. Once the download is complete you're ready to restore it for your own use!

Related:

• Backing up, restoring and importing courses (how to)