Six weeks after their end date, courses in Moodle automatically enter ‘read-only’ mode, ensuring that their contents are frozen in time. Occasionally, however, Moodle managers academic departments may need to make some minor changes to the courses, to enrol extra students, or to change the visibility status of a course (hiding or unhiding it).
Risks of Editing Archived Courses
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Interventions into frozen courses should be minimal to protect the integrity of the Moodle archive. |
Frozen courses constitute the official archive of LSE’s Moodle site. There are two options for dealing with this.is no additional archive or back-up that can readily be made available to students or staff. Activities that are deleted in an unfrozen course will not be retrievable - this includes submissions within assignment and quiz activities, and other student contributions.
Edits to unfrozen courses should be kept to a minimum. If you do not wish students to access something, hide it. Do not delete any contents of the course.
If you are confident that no edits are to be made that will impact the integrity of the archived course and the data contained within it, there are two options available to you:
Option 1: Contact the Digital Education Team
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If a course was wrongly placed in ‘read-only’ mode when it ought to still be live, you can make it live again by changing the course end date. Courses are frozen 42 days (6 weeks) after their end date. You can use this to calculate the correct end date.
Note: When extending the lifetime of a course please consider contacting the Digital Education team so that we can make note of this for future versions.
Risks of Editing Archived Courses
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Interventions into frozen courses should be minimal to protect the integrity of the Moodle archive. |
Materials deleted in unfrozen courses are lost forever
Frozen courses constitute the official archive of LSE’s Moodle site. There is no additional archive or back-up that can readily be made available to students or staff. Activities that are deleted in an unfrozen course will not be retrievable - this includes submissions within assignment and quiz activities, and other student contributions.
Edits to unfrozen courses should be kept to a minimum. If you do not wish students to access something, hide it. Do not delete any contents of the course.
Archive Managers must not freeze categories
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