Good course ecology necessitates saving multiple copies of course components. While most faculty maintain the sound practice of saving course content locally as it is created, the Archive feature saves an entire course site in a single Zip file which can be stored on the faculty member's personal computer. The Recycle function selectively deletes files that are no longer needed. Course Archive can certainly be used without Recycle, but one should never recycle parts of a course withour first having Archived it.

1. Course Archive

Begin by entering the course Control Panel and clicking on Archive Course in the Course Options area (lower left corner). You will be prompted with the name of the course being archived -- fall2002-hist321-80, in the example below:



When the course title has been confirmed click on the link reading Click here to download the exported course site in order to generate the archive:
A dialogue box like the one to the right will appear, asking you to save the Zip file on your local computer. In the example to the right the user is saving to the Temp directory on the C:/ drive.

The resulting Zip file will include dozens of files which, when unzipped, will comprise the constituent parts of the original site.



2. Course Recycle

The Recycle Course page is a useful tool for Instructors to use at the end of a course. It allows Instructors to select information to be deleted from a course and keeps the rest of the course areas for use in the future. For example, if the option next to Gradebook is selected all the names of Students and their grades will be deleted from the course Web site. The Instructor will have a clean Gradebook to start the new semester. One should never consider recylcing components of a until the entire site has been archived.

Access the course Control Panel then click Recycle Course in the Course Options area. Note the caution offered in the example to the right:
Select the areas to be deleted

As always one needs to click SUBMIT in order to complete the procedure, but because this process involves deleting files the system demands one also type Remove to confirm the desired result.

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