About Global Course Backups

Create a course backup

Download a course backup

Upload a course backup

Restore a course backup

Delete a course backup

About Global Course Backups | Top

Global Course Backups allows designers to create backups of all their courses from one place. Designers can use this feature to save their courses at any stage of development and download them to their computer for safekeeping. Designers can also overwrite a course by uploading and restoring a backup of another course.

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Create a course backup | Top

You can create a backup of your course at any stage of development. After you create a course backup, it is recommended that you download it to your computer for safekeeping. If you want to use the course in another term or overwrite another course, you can upload and restore the backup.

Note: If you back up a cross-listed course, it is the master course containing all of the course content and
user information that will be backed up. The backup's filename will contain the Course ID of the master
course.

1. From myWebCT, click Course Functions. The Course Functions screen appears, displaying the Course and Backup Listing.
2. From the Course and Backup Listing, select the course(s) that you want to backup. Note: You can create more than one course backup at a time.
3. Under Options, from the drop-down list, select Create backups and click Go. The Create Backups screen appears.
4. For each course backup, enter a short description.
5. Click Create. The course backup(s) are created and automatically saved as a .zip files.
6. Click Continue. The Course and Backup Listing screen appears with the backup course listed. The filename format is CourseID_MonthDay_Time.zip (e.g. Bio101_Dec6_1618.zip).

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Note: Do not unzip the backup file before uploading it.

1. From myWebCT, click Course Functions. The Course Functions screen appears, displaying the Course and Backup Listing.
2. From the Course and Backup Listing, select the course that is associated with the backup. Note: You can upload only one course backup at a time.
3. Under Options, from the drop-down list, select Upload backup and click Go. The Upload Backup File screen appears.
4. Click Browse. Your computer's file manager appears.
5. Select the file that you want to upload. The filename is entered in the Filename text box.
6. Click Upload. The course backup is uploaded.
7. Click Continue. The Course and Backup Listing screen appears with the course backup uploaded.

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Restore a course backup | Top

Restoring a course backup allows you to overwrite either the current course or another course on the WebCT server. When you restore a course backup, you have the option to either overwrite or preserve the student list in the course. If the student list is preserved, the Last Name, First Name, and User ID fields for every student will remain in the Student Table. All other student information, such as Quiz and Assignment grades, Discussions topics, and Mail messages will be deleted. Content files will also be deleted. Important: If you
want to restore a cross-listed course over another cross-listed course, see your WebCT administrator.

Note to SCT users: When you restore a course backup, the student lists will always be preserved.

1. From myWebCT, click Course Functions. The Course Functions screen appears, displaying the Course and Backup Listing.
2. From the Course and Backup Listing, select the course backup that you want to restore. Note: You can restore only one course backup at a time.
3. Under Options, from the drop-down list, select Restore backup and click Go. The Course Functions: Restore Entire Course screen appears.
4. From the Course List, select the course(s) into which you want to restore the backup. Important: The selected course(s) will be overwritten by the backup.
   • If you are using SCT:
     1. Click Restore. A warning message appears.
     2. Click OK. The course backup is restored with the student list preserved in the selected course(s).
     3. Click Continue.
   • If you are not using SCT, select one of the following restore options.
   • If you want to overwrite the student list in the selected course(s):
     1. Select Restore and overwrite student list in the selected course(s).
     2. Click Restore. A warning message appears.
     3. Click OK. The course backups are restored with the student list overwritten in the selected course(s).
     4. Click Continue.
   • If you want to preserve the student list in the selected course(s):
     1. Select Restore and preserve student list in the selected course(s).
     2. Click Restore. A warning message appears.
     3. Click OK. The course backups are restored with the student list preserved in the selected course(s).
     4. Click Continue.

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Download a course backup | Top

It is recommended that you download course backups to your computer instead of only keeping the backups on the WebCT server. If server problems occur, you will have backups of your courses.

1. From myWebCT, click Course Functions. The Course Functions screen appears, displaying the Course and Backup Listing.
2. From the Course and Backup Listing, select the course backup that you want to download. Note: You can download only one course backup at a time.
3. Under Options, from the drop-down list, select Download backup and click Go. Your browser's file download screen appears.
4. Follow the instructions.

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1. From myWebCT, click Course Functions. The Course Functions screen appears, displaying the Course and Backup Listing.
2. From the Course and Backup Listing, select the course backup(s) that you want to delete. Note: You can delete more than one course backup at a time.
3. Under Options, from the drop-down list, select Delete backup and click Go. The Delete Backups screen appears.
4. Verify the list of course backups to be deleted.
5. Click Delete. A warning message appears.
6. Click OK. The course backup(s) are deleted.

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