Moodle in English: One course - 2 separate identical versions - easy export of quizzes?

Hi there,

For a pilot project in the Caribbean, we will offer free access to our online course 'Coral Reef Architecture & Organisms'.

I thus have to duplicate an existing (commercial) course to avoid mixing up paying customers with students accessing the (free) course where they will interact with their teachers.

What is the best way of copying the course? I tested it out, and by copying the html code of each topic into the new course, everything seems to be fine (except some links, that will have to be modified) - but what about the quizzes? What is the best way to copy quizzes from one course to a second course?

Thank you,
Stephan

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Re: One course - 2 separate identical versions - easy export of quizzes?

oleh Gustav W Delius - Rabu, 29 Maret 2006, 22:56

The best way is to backup the course and then to restore it in the new location. That way also all links will be converted correctly automatically.

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Re: One course - 2 separate identical versions - easy export of quizzes?

oleh Charles Libby - Rabu, 29 Maret 2006, 23:47

As you stated, the best way to create a new course is from a backed up old course. Since you are working on identical courses, this would be ideal, but, I have had with this method when creating later instances of the same course. It requires adjustment of date specific items such as the course start date and test times once the new course is created. I wish there were a way to adjust this at installation of the new course. I am not yet a programmer but I am sure this can be done by adjusting fields in the XML files in the actual archive.

Charles

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Re: One course - 2 separate identical versions - easy export of quizzes?

oleh Stephan Becker - Kamis, 30 Maret 2006, 00:22

Gustav - You do not mean using the back-up feature available in the admin section? I think this one only backs up student results. I think you mean backing up the entire course somehow... like making an identical copy of it?

I just want to be sure to understand you right before giving instructions to my web developer.

Thank you very much,
Stephan

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Backing up Quizzes & entire course

oleh Stephan Becker - Kamis, 30 Maret 2006, 04:46

Hi all (Hi Gustav),

I tried back-up of the entire course into a new course, but whatever option I choose (with or without the usere data, Metacourse yes or No), I always get the following "creating scales - xml error" message - what is going wrong? - Thanks Stephan: