Course Archiver

Maintained by Matthew Davidson
Archive and remove past courses with this handy tool that can also be used to send notifications to course teachers, hide courses in bulk, and has the ability for course teachers to opt out of the archiving.
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Supports Moodle 2.8-5.2 See all versions
Latest release: 2 months ago
Installations: 974
Downloads (last 90 days): 466
Frankenstyle name: tool_coursearchiver
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Juha Martikainen
Maybe it's just me, but for some reason when I call coursearchiver from the CLI, it seems to ignore the unix timestamp restriction for courses created before date x, but not for courses created after x.
Joe Marino
When I try to "Backup" a group of old "hidden" courses I am getting the error "...could not be backed up or archived."
I have tried to even only backup one single course at a time and it throws the same error, what could be causing this? I will preface this with saying I was able to backup other courses in the same category/folder before, so I know it did work at some point.
Thanks
Juli MacArthur
Hi, are there any plans for a full 4.4+ update? Our Hosts won't install this as it's failed some tests on our 4.3.8 and this plugin is an incredible resource! Thanks!
BIANCA VAN BREDA
Hi there, I am wondering if one can set up the Course Archiver to archive a course once the course has reached its end date. Has anyone had any luck with this? I.e. Set a course with a start and end date, and when it reaches the end date it is automatically archived by the Course Archiver.
Cathal O'Riordan
Hi, I'm interested to know if it is possible to disable emails being sent from the plugin when a course is marked for archiving? My institution is applying a slightly different workflow, where all faculty will be notified where a particular segment (academic year, semester etc.) of the courses on our Moodle site will be archived and removed. I'll like to remove any additional notifications if possible. Thanks.
Matthew Davidson
Just released v4.1.4 which now includes a backup only feature. smile
ALEXANDER ALMEIDA PEREIRA
Can I use this plugin for bulk backup all the courses in a category without delete those courses?
Pete Stockley
Hi,
I couldn't find more information on this setting in the documentation. Can anyone advise on the following?
If I set "local_course_archive | timeinarchive" to 0:
a) does that mean the course will be moved directly to the Delete -category?
b) will a notification still be sent to the course teachers?
Matthew Davidson
Yes, I have a Moodle 4.0 version already working. Just haven't made an offiicial release yet.
Ridhima Suri
Will this plugin be available for Moodle 4.0?
Blair F.
Darn. I don't have that level of access, so I'll just do it a few courses at a time. It's still better than one at a time.
Matthew Davidson
@Martin Božič - Yes, if you are running into the session timeout or a browser timeout issue, it is best to use the CLI part if possible. There is a bug where the course backup can halt a batch, but then when you try again it usually works, so it has been really hard to track down.
Martin Božič
I guess it's better to use CLI tool for extremly large courses and large batches?
Blair F.
I'm just wondering if others experience time-out issues. I am only able to archive MAX 6 courses at a time.
Lynn MacDonald
Hi. Posted this yesterday in the Community Forum, but it did not garner any responses. Hoping someone might be able to suggest what to do: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=423748