Moodle plugins directory: Course Archiver | Moodle.org
Course Archiver
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)
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)
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.
Screenshots
1) I'd like to be able to locate and un-archive (or download) a course through the Moodle UI, so I wouldn't have to contact our I.T. department (Even though I'm Admin, I only have access to Moodle UI)
2) I'd like to see who is "opting out" and what courses they are opting out.
3) I'd like to be able to set an opt out time in months, instead of years.
4) I'd like to be able to completely delete (and not even bother to archive) a course
I also haven't figured out what the "Create Save Point" button is for.
If I search for empty courses, the plugin also lists courses, where I have only one news forum, and inside the news forum there were some uploaded files, so finally the course was not empty, could you please also check those entries, is that possible? thanks a lot! tom
1. When i select the 'Archive' button, currently it is removing the courses from the category. Isn't there an option just to archive the courses and not remove them?
2. Possible can you tell how i can restore the courses after archiving from the plugin. I couldn't find any .mbz files in the default 'Restore' page of the category.. Thanks for creating the plugin though
Cheers,
Rahul.