Thoughts on new feature... sort of...
How do other people handle moving from testing a course to going live? What I mean is, how do you remove all the flipant Journal entries and bogus quiz answers.
My thought is to have an administrative function to purge a course of all 'student' input. This may also be useful at the end of year when you want to get back to the start.
I'm honestly not sure if this is the/an answer and wondered if anybody had any thoughts.
Such a button would be *great*.
In the meantime you can use Backup/Restore to get the same effect.
In the meantime you can use Backup/Restore to get the same effect.
This would be one for Eloy's backup/restore module I think. You can backup a course *Without* user data, then restore it under a new name. I believe that would be an easy way to do it, anyway.
Unless you've made changes during the course that you want to keep.
Or unless you want to just drop the few students who've withdrawn from the class.
Yes, that's sounds good. In the latest version of Blackboard they've added a "Recycle Course" function to the teacher's admin screen. That seems to me a good name. If that could do a behind the scenes Backup (without user data) and restore it would be neat. The Blackboard recycle function also gives you the option to drop various parts of the course but I don't see that option as necessary. In Moodle it's easy to go in and prune content from the "recycled" course.
The other way around would also be nice:
To store depersonalized quizzes with all the given answers in a course related datamine, so you can start for the next years a littlebit QA on your course related sets of questions. (Of course only the questions with the closed answers)