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Exporting and Importing Courses
Exporting and importing course content is useful if you want to back up a course, preserve its state during development, or transfer it between different Xen sites.
There are several reasons you might want to export your course. For example:
- To save your work.
- To edit the XML in your course directly.
- To create a backup copy of your course, which you can import if you want to revert
- the course back to a previous state.
- To share with the team members of another course.
- To create a copy of your course that you can later import into another course instance and customise.
When you export a course in Xen, the system generates a .tar.gz file containing the following:
• Course Content: All Sections, Subsections, and Units.
• Course Structure.
• Individual Problems.
• Pages.
• Course Assets.
• Course Settings.
The following data is not exported:
• User Data.
• Course Team Data.
• Discussion Data.
• Certificates.
• Prerequisite Course Subsection Settings.
To export or import your course, follow these steps within the Authoring Tool:
• Course Content: All Sections, Subsections, and Units.
• Course Structure.
• Individual Problems.
• Pages.
• Course Assets.
• Course Settings.
The following data is not exported:
• User Data.
• Course Team Data.
• Discussion Data.
• Certificates.
• Prerequisite Course Subsection Settings.
To export or import your course, follow these steps within the Authoring Tool:
Exporting Your Course
- Open the Authoring Tool and select the course you want to export.
- Click on the Tools drop-down menu and choose Export.
- On the export page, review the list of components that will and will not be exported.
- Click the Export Course Content button. A .tar.gz file will be downloaded, representing your course content.
- Rename the file if needed, but ensure the .tar.gz extension remains intact. Store it safely.
Importing Your Course
- Navigate to the Authoring Tool for the course you want to import content into.
- From the Settings drop-down menu, select Import.
- Click the Choose a File to Import button and locate the .tar.gz file that you previously exported.
- Important: Importing will overwrite the current course with the content of the file, so ensure you want to replace it.
- After confirming, Xen will begin the import process, displaying progress until completion. Depending on the size, this may take a few moments.
Duplicating a Course
You can also use the import-export process to duplicate courses. Export the course you want to duplicate, and then import it into a new or existing course. This allows you to reuse content across different courses or create backups of your work.
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