 Course backup. Save and reuse your course. As a teacher it's useful to have a copy of our course that we can keep safe outside of Moodle or perhaps reuse it in a different Moodle site or give it to a colleague in a different Moodle site or even have another version of our course in the same Moodle site. Moodle calls this copy a backup and to make a backup of our course we need to go to the administration block and to click the link backup. This is how you would backup the course that you will have created for the teaching with Moodle course. When we click the link backup we need to follow the instructions to decide what exactly we want to bring over with our copy of our course and not. If you're an experienced Moodler you can jump to the final step if you know what you're doing. But for us beginners first of all note that there are Xs next to enrolled users and user information. That means that because we are teachers and for security reasons we can only backup the actual course content the resources and activities. We can't backup the information the data that our learners have included. If you need to have your course with all of your learner data then you need to have your administrator back it up for you. We basically want to include everything else activities, blocks, filters and so we scroll down and click next. On the next screen we're presented with a list of all of our activities and resources and we need to decide which ones we want to include. By default all of them are selected. So for example if I didn't want to include an item I could untick or uncheck that box and again we scroll down and once we've decided which activities we want to include and leave out we click the next button. Then we're prompted to check all of our settings. Our backup course has been given a file name which we can rename if we want to or leave it as it is and we scroll down to make sure that all of the settings and included activities are the ones we want. If we made a mistake we can simply go back to the previous screen and change them. Now it's time to click the button to perform the backup and we get a message that the backup file was successfully created and clicking the continue button will take us to where we can get a copy of the backup file to download it and save it offline and if we scroll down we see our user private backup area which tells us the course and the size of it and the time that we actually backed it up. So if you want to get this out of Moodle to say for example on a CD or a USB drive you click the download button. We aren't in this video or this course going to look at how you can then put your course into a separate Moodle site but if you look in the administration block again and you look at the link restore you simply reverse the process by clicking the restore link, uploading your file and following the screen instructions in that.