Importing one course in to another: Is it possible to append the target?

Importing one course in to another: Is it possible to append the target?

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Hi all

I started "import" in one course (the target course), selected the source course and marched through the steps. I was looking for an "append" option, which I didn't see. At the end the activities of the source course appear in the same numbered topics of the target course, thereby expanding sections.

A teacher is looking for an "append" option - expecting the topic 1 of source course to be the last+1 topic of the target course and so on. Is that possible?
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Re: Importing one course in to another: Is it possible to append the target?

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Ping!

In fact I found this to be a common work flow. Teachers (with more rights) keep "repositories" in Moodle itself in the form of hidden courses. When a new course is required they join them in to one, in a target course. Just like working with word processing documents in one's local computer, with the difference that these "repositories" may be in the region of Giga Bytes!
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Re: Importing one course in to another: Is it possible to append the target?

by Visvanath Ratnaweera -
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Hi all

From the long silence I deduce that the answer to the original quesstion, "A teacher is looking for an "append" option - expecting the topic 1 of source course to be the last+1 topic of the target course and so on. Is that possible?" is No.

I would like to know whether anybody has experience with the work-flow I described in my previous post. It scares me as the system administrator. The "repository courses" I am talking of could be 1 GB and upwards! Can Moodle really import such big courses? Could crashed (mutliple) tries to import swell the filedir?