Recommendations and Guidelines
Creating a backup of your course
The CTLT will retain copies of courses at https://moodle.unbc.ca for 2 years.
If you require long term storage of your course backups beyond 2 years, you will need to export these and retain your own copies for future use.
All UNBC faculty, staff, and students have 1 TB of storage with M365 Onedrive https://onedrive.live.com/. The CTLT suggests using UNBC Onedrive for long term storage of course backups.
To create your own backups for long term storage follow these steps:
- Go to the More Menu item as shown below:
2. Select Course Reuse from the More Menu Item as shown below:
3. Select Backup from the Dropdown menu on the next Moodle screen as shown in the next image:
4. From the Backup settings options that appear, deselect “Enrolled Users” and click Next at the bottom of the screen
5. On the next screen, deselect Announcements and click Next at the bottom of the screen
6. On the next screen scroll to the bottom and click Perform Backup
7. Once the Backup is complete on the following screen select Continue
8. You will see a list of all the courses you have backed up to date with an .MBZ extension. You can download the latest one as they are sorted by the date and time the Backup was performed.
9. Again, all UNBC faculty, staff, and students have 1 TB of storage with M365 Onedrive https://onedrive.live.com/. The CTLT suggests using UNBC Onedrive for long term storage of course backups. As the naming convention of the files is not obvious as to which backup file belongs to which course, a robust file folder naming system on your OneDrive is recommended.
