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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Blair F.
Hi, all! I love this plugin! I'm just curious... why is there a maximum of 200 courses shown on the archived list?
Amir Hossein
Hi, if adobe connect activities enabled in course after archive and delete , The course is fully restored , but the content has also been removed from the Adobe server and can no longer be recovered !!
Blair F.
Thanks, Matthew! I appreciate that, very much! I love this plugin!
Matthew Davidson
@Blair F. Currently the only way is manually from the database. I'll put this on my list of things to add. Just have to devote some time to it.
Blair F.
Does anyone know how to delete Save Points? I've accumulated quite a few and don't see a way to delete them from the drop-down list.
Otaku Dude
I would have to agree with Brad, great tool but could be even better if I could archive and not delete (bulk would be awesome too).
Brad Nielsen
I quite like this tool, but it would be nice if you could bulk Restore and Reset, or alternatively Archive but not Delete and simply Reset the existing course in Bulk.
Matthew Davidson
@Jerry Lau Yes, this plugin uses the Moodle built in backup classes and procedures. If the course fails to backup manually, it won't backup via this tool.
Jerry Lau
Does this tool use the automated backup classes or the same ones used to create the course backups? If the course are large, I would suspect that the problem is still there with trying to backup large files, correct? This is just a way to call the backup.php for a specific course and move it to another location outside the moodledata designated folder. Am I correct?
Liana Shpani
Hi, I was wondering if the version for Moodle 3.6 was also compatible with Moodle 3.5? I only see versions of the plugin for 3.4 and 3.6. Thanks!
Stefan Erlachner
Hi Matthew, nice work. Love the plugin.
One thing that would be cool though, is to have the option to include sub-categories when filtering by category. Maybe you want to consider this as a new feature.
Cheers and thanks!
G J
Is there a way to also check a log for the errors when a course not able to be archived? I'm successfully archiving courses that are put in manually in our Moodle system, however, the courses that are uploaded into Moodle through a flat file not archiving. I receive a message "processing complete" but then "errors: Course: .... could not be archived". I'm not sure why the archiving can't be successful.
G J
@Matthew (Build: 2016090200) (2018081700) Thats probably the issue. Will update. Thanks
Matthew Davidson
@GJ Check what version you are running. That bug was fixed on version 2018081700.
G J
When Opt-out email is sent, faculty receive "Access Denied" error when trying to opt out. It works when an admin opt out so I'm thinking its a permission thing. But what permission need to be giving for the teacher to opt out?