 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, perhaps to reuse it in a different Moodle site, such as our organisation or school site, or add it to our personal Moodle Cloud site to continue developing it, or even give a copy to a colleague. Moodle calls this copy a backup, and to make a backup of our course, we need to click the gear menu and then backup. This is how you would save a copy of the course that you will have created for the teaching with Moodle MOOC. 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 the 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, the first thing to know is that there are Xs next to enrolled users and user information. This means that because we are teachers and for security reasons, we can only backup the actual course content, resources and activities. We can't backup the information, the data that our learners have included. If you need to have a 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, and so we scroll down and click next. On the next screen, we're presented with a list of all our activities and resources, and we need to decide which ones we want to keep. By default, all of them are selected, so for instance, if I didn't want to include an item, I could untick 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. We then prompted to check all of our settings. Our backup course has been given a file name, which we can rename if we want or leave it as it is, and then we scroll down to make sure that all 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 it. Now it's time to click the button to perform the backup, and we get a message that the backup file was successfully created. Clicking the continue button will take us to where we can get a copy of this backup file to download it and save it offline. If we scroll down, we can 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 our Learn Moodle site, to say for instance, to keep on your computer a CD or a USB drive, you click the download button and save it. Note, you cannot open this course up on your computer. It will only open on a different Moodle site. So to add your course into a different Moodle site, such as Moodle Cloud, watch the video on Course Restore.