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Moodle® For Dummies®
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Moodle® For Dummies®

by Radana Dvorak
May 2011
Beginner
424 pages
10h 45m
English
For Dummies
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Resetting Your Course to Clear All User Data

The resetting tool enables you to clear your course of all user data, keeping all activities, resources, and settings for the activities. Resetting is useful for activities (such as wikis, glossaries, forums) and for tools (such as groups, grade book, and roles) when you want a new group of students to start on the activities and you need to record their progress.

image When you're going through the procedure and selecting items to reset, your user data will be completely deleted, and you'll be unable to recover it. I advise that you back up your course first, including the user data, before you begin experimenting with the resetting tool. (See “Backing Up Your Course and Data,” earlier in the chapter.)

To reset your course, follow these steps:

  1. From the course you want to reset, click the Reset link in the course Administration block.

    Moodle takes you to the Reset Course page.

  2. Under the General options, set the new course start date and delete all calendar events, course log reports, and user notes.

    image Click the Show Advanced button to display all options in each category.

  3. Under Role options, you can unenroll users with specific roles within your course. You can also remove all overrides and role assignments specific to this course.
  4. Go through ...
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