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titleWhat is a the Moodle Archive?

LSE Moodle Archiveis a read-only copy of LSE Moodle for each academic year.

Courses from the 2023/24 academic year onwards are held in an archive section of the main Moodle site. Currently, courses from 2022/23 and 2021/22 are held on separate archive sites. You can always find the most up-to-date archive information on the Moodle archive information page: LSE Moodle Archive.

The purpose of the LSE Moodle Archive is to retain an accessible digital record of each course for students and staff. This is useful for students who have to resit or retake courses and for students and staff who want to review material from previous years. It also keeps the current year’s courses on Moodle clutter free.

Each year, an archive copy will be created and it will be Archived copies of courses are kept for three years.

All records present on LSE Moodle will be included in the archiveare retained within archived courses. This includes, course content (e.g. resources, web links), activities (e.g. forum posts, assignments, quizzes), stored records, grades and feedback.  Lecture recordings are now available for all three years that a course remains in the archive.

The level of access to the archives a person has to an archived course reflects the level of access on the day the archive copy was created. For example, if a student was enrolled on a suite of courses when the 20182023/19 24 archive was taken, they will have access to the same courses (read-only) in the 20182023/19 24 archive.

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titleWhat is the LSE Moodle archive for?

The purpose of the LSE Moodle Archive is to provide an accessible digital snapshot of each course as it was at academic year-end, for the benefit of both students and staff. There are a range of scenarios in which this might prove useful:

  •  for students who may have to resit exams,
  •  or for staff who may want to be able to refer to resources or activities from previous years without cluttering their current year Moodle course,
  •  or for checking on assignment and grade results.

Archive copies of LSE Moodle will be taken towards the end of every academic year just after the main exam period.

Please note that the 2017/18 and 2018/19 archives were decommissioned on July 21st 2022
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How to access archived courses

You should already have access to the Moodle course for any module you were enrolled in for the year in which you were enrolled.

  • Students seeking access to any other courses should contact their department for permission.

  • Staff needing access or help supporting students should contact eden.digital@lse.ac.uk

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Hidden archived courses can only be unhidden by those with the correct Moodle permissions. Please contact eden.digital@lse.ac.uk for help.

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titleHow does the archive work?

By default, when the archive is created all courses within it are 'hidden' from students. Moreover, all quizzes and assignments within the courses are also 'hidden'. If students are required to see their grades/feedback (and in case of assignments to download their submissions), the activity needs to be visible.

Course editors will be able to make (the) course(s) visible on the Moodle archive as soon as an archive is released.

  • Editors who had permission to enrol/unenrol other users at the time the archive snapshot was taken, will be able to do so in the Moodle archive and there will be no need to contact LTI to ask for permission.

  • Students should contact their departments if they wish to see any course content that has not been made visible.

If you are an editor and you want to make a course visible, go into the course in the Moodle archive and then go into the

Administration block, click

Edit settings > change the Visibility option to Show.

To hide and/or reveal any activities and/or resources within the course: Click Turn editing on > Click Edit (use the drop-down menu next to the activity you want to hide/reveal) > Select Hide (or Show depending on your choice).

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titleWill students have access to the courses on the Moodle Archive that they are resitting automatically?

No. Courses in the Moodle archive are hidden by default and departments are responsible to make courses visible throughout the whole year. If courses are not made visible to students, they will not be available to anyone, apart from the editors that were enrolled on them at the time the archive snapshot was taken.

If you are an editor and you want to make a course visible, go into the course in the Moodle archive and then go into the

Administration block, click

Edit settings > change the Visibility option to Show.

If you are a student and you cannot find the course, it is hidden, please contact your departmentCourses in Moodle are named for the academic year in which they run, and organised by year to make them easy to find. For example, the Moodle page for AC100 that ran in 2023/24 will be found at 2023/24 > Accounting 2023/24 > AC100 Elements of Accounting and Finance 2023/24

Every course has an end date, usually at the end of IRDAP when all exams are finished.

  • When a course reaches its end date it will slip into the ‘past courses’ section of ‘My Course Overview’.

  • After IRDAP, self-enrolment is disabled and no new students can join a course.

  • A banner at the top of the page alerts users they are in an archived version of a course.

  • Six weeks after a course’s end date, it becomes ‘read only’. Enrolled users can still access material, but can no longer upload or edit anything. Teachers and editors can also no longer change the course.

Courses in ‘read-only’ mode are only available to students enrolled in the course before its end date and cannot be edited.

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titleOlder archives

Archives from before 2023/24 are housed on separate sites following the old archiving model. They remain available until 3 years after the academic year in which they originally ran. Please see the Moodle archive page for the most current details.

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Individual courses from the 2021/22 LSE Moodle archive will available by request only from October 31 2024. Please contact the LSE digital education team at eden.digital@lse.ac.uk for more information. Students requiring access to 2021/22 courses should contact the relevant academic department as usual.

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titleWill all students be able to access all archives?

Access to the archive is based on roles held by users when the Moodle archive was created; eg, only those students that were enrolled in 2018/19 will if a student was enrolled on four Moodle courses in 2023/24, they will only be able access courses that have been made visible in the 2018/19 those four courses on the 2023/24 archive.

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titleHow long will the lecture recordings be available for on the Moodle archive?

Lecture recordings will be available for three years on the archive.

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titleWill students be able to access the archive after their LSE accounts expire?

No. students will need to have an active LSE account to be able to access the Moodle archive. Also, public accounts cannot be used to access the Moodle archive.

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