Re: Cannot restore courses to new 2.6 instance if they have quizzes
by Derek Chirnside. I had some problems with questons a while back: they just did not go what I wanted, and seemed to not be accessible to done teachers.we exported the lot in GIFT or XML format. Then...
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by Ken Task. Understand. Is this other instance on the same struggling server?Other than that ... +1 to Derek's suggestion.'spirit of sharing', Ken
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by Emma Richardson. Different server. I have now discovered that my database has all the questions in there twice so that probably is my issue and while the questions are in the database, they are...
View ArticleRe: Cannot restore courses to new 2.6 instance if they have quizzes
by Emma Richardson. It turns out I only had a few duplicates. The questions were all in a non-existent parent category which was why they were not visible anywhere in the webinterface. Changed the...
View ArticleBackup omits the contents of long labels
by Richard Jones. On both our school's production Moodle (v2.5) and test version (v2.6) backing up a course removes the contents of all Labels with more than 32 characters. Other resources/activities...
View ArticleRe: Backup and Restore of a course with due dates during Time zone change
by Susan Fleming. We have the same problem with most of our assignments being due at 11:55 pm. The Spring time change shifts everything forward to 12:55 am and the Fall time change shifts things back...
View ArticleRe: Restoring Large Courses : May be a solution?
by panagiotis karageorgos. Hello and thank you for the replyExcuse me but if i understand you mean to export a mysql string from the database or to work with folders ?
View ArticleRe: Cannot restore courses to new 2.6 instance if they have quizzes
by Emma Richardson. Some resolution: for others with same issue!I am doing some guessing here but I made some discoveries along the way. This is just related to the question bank problems per...
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by Ken Task. Welcome! Did you use the scripts? Did they do what was desired?'spirit of sharing', Ken
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by Don Hinkelman. Hi Emma,Most of my problems with Quiz backup/restore/import relate to the categories used the the Question Bank. If you use Question Bank categories above the Course level category,...
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by Derek Chirnside. Don, https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-12403 seems fixed??I quote Tim: "-Derek
View ArticleRe: Cannot restore courses to new 2.6 instance if they have quizzes
by Emma Richardson. It was not fixed but patched. All 12403 fix does is allow to exclude all questions from your backups but this also stops the quizzes that use those questions from being restored...
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by Tim Hunt. MDL-12403 was a step forwards, and thank you very much to Dan for tackling it.But, it was only one step, and we need more, which is why MDL-41924 was created.Regarding it being very slow...
View ArticleRe: Extracting contents of backup file
by Julie Finch. Yes they did and saved us countless hours of having to manually download assets! Thanks again, Julie
View ArticleAutomated backup quandry
by Nyle Landas. Ok, I have Moodle run an automated course backup M-F. It had been running through without errors at night when we don't have active users. However, I've just started receiving dual...
View ArticleWhat is the best way to move stuff around ?
by Andrew Gollan. I have been working on a huge question bank, and making representative quizzes from it in a Sandbox course. My problem is that then I want to put subsets of these quizzes into my...
View ArticleRe: What is the best way to move stuff around ?
by Emma Richardson. Get the Sharing Cart plugin. Add it to every course. It allows you to copy all your quizzes to a block in the sandbox course and then put them in any other course. The deselect...
View ArticleRe: Multiple course restore to one or multiple Moodle sites
by Gwen Barnes. Does this do any conversion of courses from 1.9 format to 2.2+ by any chance?
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by Anatoliy Kochnev. no conversion yet, sorry. Just multiple existing courses upload.
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