Creating a Course Backup

You may create a course backup in order to restore it to another course, or to create an archive of the course to download.

Step-by-step guide

1. From the main course page, select Backup from the gear icon.
   
2. Check the Backup settings and change the options as desired.
   1. If you want to make a backup with all the defaults, you may click Jump to final step, click Continue, and then skip to the final step* below. 
      
   2. If you want to select the items to Include in the backup, click Next. Select By default, all items are selected for inclusion in the backup. Note: It is not possible for instructors to backup user data in this process.Leave the default Filename or enter your own. Confirm the Backup settings, then scroll to the bottom of the page, and click the Perform Backup button.
3. Wait for the The backup file was successfully created message. Click Continue.
   

After creating the backup file, the filename will appear in your User private backup area list. Click the Download link to the right of the backp file name if you want to save the backup file to your computer (optional).

Help Video

Please note that .mbz files cannot be used outside of Moodle (AsULearn).