Notes on moving a moodle course from one site to another.

For example, I’m moving Antiques 2007 from xsfor.us to antiquesbaseball.com.

Initial Setup

1. FFox: Open this set of instructions in one window.
2. Finder: Nav to a folder to contain the backup downloads.
3. Interarchy: Open the old site’s bookmark. Nav to /moodledata/.
4. FFox: Open the old site’s home page in a second window. Log in as an Administrator.
5. FFox: Open the new site’s home page in a third window. Log in as an Administrator.

Move course(s)

1. Log in to the old site as an administrator.
2. Backup the course you’re moving.
   Select "all" info. (You can skip logs.)
3. Use an ftp program to download the .zip file to your workstation.
   My convention: Site Archives > XWS > {new site folder}
4. Log in to the new site as an administrator.
5. Create an Empty course if there isn’t one there already.
6. Open the Empty course.
7. In the Administration block, click the Restore link.
8. During the restore process you can replace the existing course or create a new course. Use new course; we made the dummy course so you could restore many old courses.