LSE Moodle Archive

LSE Moodle Archive is 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.

Archived copies of courses are kept for three years.

All records are 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 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 2023/24 archive was taken, they will have access to the same courses (read-only) in the 2023/24 archive.

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:

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

Courses 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.

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.