Hello, I would like to be able to delete the user completion data (activities completed, quiz attempts, grades, certificates etc) once a user has been unenrolled from any course.
I'm using manual and self enrollment plugins, I was looking into the plugins settings but I haven't found any parameter to do this, could you please advise ??
Angel -
I don't know your purpose for using Moodle, however, as a former administrator in both K-12 and higher ed, I want to offer the following cautions, particularly if your courses are used for any kind of credit such as professional growth or continuing education units, certification/recertification, test prep, etc.
I can understand wanting to keep your server load low, however, if there is any potential that someone can challenge you/your company/your institution about the course quality, the work the individual did or did not do, the quality of the work, etc., you may find yourself in a position where you need to produce evidence.
That said, my recommendation would be to do a course backup with all student data and logs and archive it with a meaningful name and a destroy date (eg., Course 1 - destroy March 31 2015). If certification/recertification is involved, I'd save for at least 5 years -- maybe 7 or 10 to cover all possible timelines.
Once the backup is archived, I'd then remove the course and data from the active server.
Hope this helps.
Hello Mike,
Thanks for the time taken to review my case, I am administration a Moodle instancy in an Industrial company, we use the platform to provide training to the employees, our high priority need in this momment is a recertification method, our company requires that employees re-take the courses at several periods of time, some of them every 6 months, some others every year and some more every 2 years, the problem I am having is, we don't have an spesific point of time in which we need to evaluate the employees, since we have our courses open all over the year, when a new employee arrives to the company we train him and after some months or years we need to re-evaluate, since we have new employees every day or every week they don't have the same target date to complete the training or re-training.
I have been looking in lots of Moodle forums and webinars trying to find a re-certification method, however, up to now I haven't found anything implemented, that's why we are designing our own method, our idea is every time an employee completes a course we save the record and once he needs to be re-trained, we want to be able to reset the training progress (only for that employee) so he can access to the course again and re-take the activities.
I hope I have explained our situation and why do we need to remove the user data once he has been un-enrolled from any course.
Any advise you can give us is welcome !!!
In Moodle 2+, unlike Moodle 1.9, when you unenroll a user from a course, the user data is deleted.
Well, almost deleted. It no longer exists in the course, but gradebook puts it in a history table, which makes it possible to re-enroll a user and restore the grades by ticking off a box.
I learned this yesterday while researching the opposite of Angel's desire. We wish to unenroll people for a period of time and have them return to find their user data intact.
Gradebook has the history and you can choose to import the old information or not. The Quiz module doesn't do anything with that option, though, so if they are allowed a limited number of attempts at a quiz that will be a problem.
For example, if it's set where they get one attempt at the quiz, that means one shot FOR LIFE, even if tey enrol in the class again three years later. If that matters to you, if you'd like Quiz to respect the choice to not import old information, you can express your needs here:
http://moodle.org/mod/forum/user.php?id=1468589&mode=discussions
We have a fixed verson are the discussion is whether or not the fix should be accepted into Moodle.
