Joseph Rézeau

Hi John,
It's working now. Maybe as you say it's on and off depending with people "doing things" with it. I've voted for the bug.
Joseph

Have never used GIFT format in my moodler's lifetime and don't think I ever will, but I know John is a great fan of GIFT.

I second that whole-heartedly!
Joseph

Suppose Lesson 01 was created in Course 01 (short name CF101).
I'll suppose you only want to move a Lesson from Course 1 to Course 2, not the logs of the students who have taken that lesson.

BACKUP/RESTORE Method

Go to Course 1, in Administration block, click on the Backup link. On the Course backup page, uncheck all Include boxes in the list except for Lesson / Lesson 01.
At the bottom of the list, set all choices to No/None. If your Lesson contains links to Course 01 media (images, audio, etc.) you should select Course Files: Yes, otherwise those media files won't "follow" to Course 02.
Click Continue. On the next screen you'll see:
Backup Details:
Include Lessons without user data
lesson 01
Include No Users
Click continue
Next screen: Backup completed successfully
Click continue
next screen, in Files >> backupdata you'll see your backup file, named something like: backup-cf101-20070815-1654.zip
click on its link to save it somewhere on your local hard drive
Now go to Course 02
in the admin block, click on the Restore link
upload file backup-cf101-20070815-1654.zip
click on the restore button to the right of the backup-cf101-20070815-1654.zip file
next screen:
Later in this process you will have a choice of adding this backup to an existing course or creating a completely new course.
Do you want to continue? -> YES
next screen shows the details of the backup files, click Continue
next screen: Course restore: backup-cf101-20070815-1654.zip
Restore to: select Existing course adding data to it + Continue
Next screen: select Course 02 from the courses list
next screen: click Restore this course now button
Restore completed successfully
Click continue
Et voila! Lesson 01 has been copied to Course 02.
If now you want to delete Lesson 01 from Course 01, just go back to Course 01 and delete it.

Import Method

Go to Course 02
In the Admin block, click on the Import link.
Screen: Import activities from another course / Courses in the same category
select Course 01 and click Uset this course button
next screen: Import course data: Course Fullname 101 (CF101)
As explained above, uncheck all check boxes except for Lesson / Lesson 01.
Select Course files Yes if you need some of them (see above)
Continue
Next screen: click Continue
Exported data from 'from' course successfully.
Continue to import into your 'to' course.
Et voila! (much faster method).
Joseph

Interested people can vote for it: MDL-10861
Joseph