Course Archiver

This tool is used to search for courses, notify the course owners, and mass hide or archive (backup and remove) courses. The courses are stored with Moodle's backup file extension ".mbz". These files can then be manually found in the user defined folder and can be restored using Moodle's built in restore feature.

Install

copy the coursearchiver folder into the admin/tool folder.

Settings

Folder path

A folder created within the moodledata folder. The tool will create this folder, however it is recommended that the folder be created outside the moodledata folder, and a shortcut be placed in the moodledata folder.

Course Hide Email

This is the template email that will be sent to the owners of the selected courses to notify them that their course(s) will be hidden. There are two required variables in the email %to (name of the recipient) and %courses (a list of courses with mailto hyperlinks to notify the site administrator that the user wishes to opt out) or if you do not want to have the opt out link use %courses_nolink instead.

Course Archive Email

This is the template email that will be sent to the owners of the selected courses to notify them that their course(s) will be archived. There are two required variables in the email %to (name of the recipient) and %courses (a list of courses with mailto hyperlinks to notify the site administrator that the user wishes to opt out) or if you do not want to have the opt out link use %courses_nolink instead.

Course Delete Email

This is the template email that will be sent to the owners of the selected courses to notify them that their course(s) will be deleted. There are two required variables in the email %to (name of the recipient) and %courses (a list of courses with mailto hyperlinks to notify the site administrator that the user wishes to opt out) or if you do not want to have the opt out link use %courses_nolink instead.

Enable Course opt out email links

By default, this setting adds opt out links to the course lists in the emails sent to notify users of actions on their course.

Course opt out persistence

A course can be opted out of the archival process and future archiver searches. This setting determines how many months the opt out with last.

Archive deletion delay

When an archived file is selected for deletion, the actual removal of the file will be delayed by x days.

Archive search limiter

Archives can get very large. This limits the amount of records returned to screen at one time.