re: Are you overwriting the new course config?
I have restored with the following details:
'Restore into this course'->select 'Delete the contents of this course and then restore'
I also tried 'Restore as new course'. Same result.
Is there some other way I should be restoring a course to retain the student activity dates?
I use a Windows Server with IIS, do you think there's some date formatting incompatibility (Unix time)?
re: What is the start date for the restored course?
It was the same day in which all the student activity reports were lumped together on. I then tried editing the course to make the start date far in the past and do the restore again, still got the same result, all student activity dates are the day of the restore even with a start date 1 year earlier than the student activity.