Import course information from one Moodle to another

Question

I am upgrading the Moodle installation and changing look and feel, roles, etc. To do this i am imposing a content freeze on the existing version, copying the site to a new location, updating it, (we are making a lot of changes), then when ready moving the 'new' site to the old site location.

The problem is we have a number of people part way through a course and do not want to stop them completing but would like a way of taking the partial data relating to their courses intro the new version.

Any ideas? Anyone done this? To dangerous?

Answer 1

you could try the built in backup/restore course functionality. i would perform an in-depth test of it before you start the migrations, as at least on old moodle versions (iirc ~1.5 or 1.6), the results of backup / restore were not always perfect..