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The Course Life Cycle (CLC) rollover tool creates a duplicate Moodle course based on an existing one, without any student content such as posts, assignment submissions, etc.
It allows the alignment with the next iteration of that course in Portico (but will not add any students at the point of rollover).
When you have rolled over the course, you will have two separate courses (such as ABCD001_21-22 and ABCD0001_22-23) with different start date and end date.
New rolled-over courses are hidden from students.
This process replaces the yearly snapshot, reset process, and allows all Moodle courses to remain in one site.
This guide explains how to use the CLC Course Rollover tool.
You can also attend drop-in sessions as listed in the Moodle Course Rollover Tool Training page.
Anyone with editing rights (such as Course Administrators or Tutors) who previously would have undertaken the ‘reset’ process for the new academic year, can access the Course Rollover function and rollover courses.
You simply need to know which course you want to rollover to the next academic year and which Portico module delivery(ies) the module aligns to. This will be used to configure your course while it’s being rolled over.
It would also be beneficial for you to have the new academic year's Course's start and end dates to hand, so that the course appears in the correct place (Past/Present/Future) in your navigation in Moodle, once rolled over.
Zoom meetings, LTI (Learning Tools Interoperability) links, Reading List/Library block, Common Timetable Block do not get rolled over into the new Moodle course.
Please review the checklist page M30f - Updating and checking your course, ready for use this academic year for a comprehensive list of items to review after you have completed the rollover.
The Advanced Forum activities will also not be rolled over to 2022/23 courses because the Advanced Forum activity is being phased out of Moodle as it will become unsupported later this year. Please talk with your Faculty Learning Technology Lead (FLTL) - see list for your faculty to discuss alternative option that fit your pedagogical needs.
No student roles are rolled-over.
This step allows the tool to identify the data from Portico for the course you want to rollover.
Select the Alignment Type for your Course – Module or Programme or Miscellaneous.
This will automatically select the correct category for your course to be rolled over to.
The first page will ask you to identify its category alignment. In this initial release, you will able to either align your course with either:
A third alignment category for the rollover of Miscellaneous courses will follow shortly in one of our next sprint releases.
Do not select 'Programme' if your course only aligns to Module delivery code(s). This would lead to having no suggested data in the next screen 'Course Data'. (see below)
The tool will suggest the SITS-based names and codes based on your module(s) alignments or your programme(s)/route(s) alignments.
Check whether a module/programme delivery was previously aligned to your course.
You must select a delivery alignment for the rollover tool to work.
Review the suggested alignments. Ensure the year in the suggested alignment year is 2022.
This step confirms course dates, naming and category location in Moodle.
On this screen, you see a summary of the configuration for your Current course and the Rolled-over course you are about to create.
The tool will auto-populate the fields from available information within Moodle/Portico, and based on the information you provided in the previous screen.
Check the course start and end date. This is important as it will determine if your course appears in the 'past', 'in progress' or 'future' filters of the dashboard's Course Overview.
The suggestion is taken from the module delivery data in Portico.
You can change the current course’s start and end date.
The rolled-over course information will offer Course full/short names as well as a Course ID number and will display course start/end dates as currently listed within Portico.
The tool uses the alignment you previously selected and also highlight the Moodle category that the course will be rolled over too.
You also have an option to amend the Course full/short names as well as a Course ID number. We do not recommend you change this unless you are making multiple copies of the same Moodle course (see M30c - Duplicating a Moodle course within the academic year).
Check (and amend if incorrect) the rolled-over course start and end date.
PLEASE NOTE: By default, the new course will be Hidden from students, so will not appear under your My Courses menu.
You can locate the new course in your Course Overview pane or by searching for the Title or Module code.
At any point after you have scheduled a Rollover you can click on the Course Rollover tool link in the Course administration menu to see its status.
This can be one of four statuses: Queued, Processing, Complete or Failed.
Queued means that the rollover is in a queue and it will be processed as soon as possible;
Pending means that the rollover is about to be processed;
Processing means that the rollover is yet to complete;
Complete means that the rollover has successfully completed and a direct link to the new course will be provided on this screen;
Failed means that an issue has occurred with the rollover (please see Known Issues page).
If the rollover fails, there will be an error message in first column of the table. This should indicate the reason for the error.
Review the Course Rollover Tool: known issues page to check whether it's a known error and please contact the Digital Education team if this doesn't resolve your issue.
You can update the activities due dates, amend content, and then enrol the new 2022/23 cohort of students.