Dear Colleagues,

It’s time to clean-up Moodle by removing older courses and we need your help. With over 300 active academic Moodle courses each semester and 100+ active extracurricular sites, we do not have enough staff to create individual archives (or backups) for everyone. Therefore, we are requesting that you archive and maintain backups of all your courses.

What does this mean to you?

At the end of each semester or as requested by the Moodle administration team as in this case, you should create a backup of your course(s). You should also export all gradebooks. After making the backups, you will need to download them to your computer. You may also want to consider burning a CD of the backup file(s).

How do you do this?

Step-by-step instructions are posted on DePauw’s Moodle 101 help site, which is listed in the top section of the Moodle home page. You may also stop by the FITS Center located on the lower level of the Roy O. West Library for one-on-one assistance with an instructional technologist. We will be happy to assist you with this process.

What courses will be removed?

DePauw’s policy is to keep Moodle course materials online for at least a period of one year from the end of the semester. Therefore, we will be removing courses categorized as Spring 07, Fall 07, WT 08 and Spring 08.

When will the courses be removed?

We will remove Spring 07, Fall 07, WT 08 and Spring 08 Moodle courses during the second week of December at which time you should notice a reduction in the number of courses in your “My courses” list. We strongly encourage you to archive your appropriate courses and save them to your computer no later than December 4, 2009.

We appreciate your help in sustaining Moodle at DePauw. Please let us know if you have any questions by emailing moodle@depauw.edu.

Best,
Lynda S. LaRoche (on behalf of the Moodle Administration Team)

The following issue is now resolved. If you have further concerns, please email moodle@depauw.edu. Thank you for your patience and understanding!

We are currently working to resolve an issue with the streaming audio server. Although this server is separate from the Moodle server, several Moodle courses have links to files that reside on the streaming audio server that may be affected. This issue should be resolved by the end of the day Wednesday (10/7). We will let you know when it is resolved. If you have an immediate need to access audio files or playlists that reside on this server, please contact moodle@depauw.edu. Thank you!