What is Grades Backup?

The Grades Export option allows you to save all or some of your Moodle course Grades content in a file on your computer whenever you wish.

Why Backup your Grades?

• Personal Backup – Moodle system backups occur weekly, early Sunday morning. This means that the grades that you entered on Monday will not be backed up by ITS for another 6 days.  You can Export your Grades to a local file on your computer at any time with minimal effort:
  • Saving your work (after many entries and changes)
  • Saving your state (before you experiment with your Grades settings)
• Long-term Backup – Moodle course backups are big and can only be restored to Moodle systems. Grades Exports are small, local files which can be opened for review in a spreadsheet program
• Restore Setup – Some of your Grades Setup can be transferred to another course using a Grades Export file.

How to Backup your Grades

In Grades:

• Select the Export tab (or menu)
  • Select the Excel spreadsheet sub-tab (or menu) (Recommended: you may wish to use an alternate format)
  • Review the items under Export format options (expand)
    • Important: if you use Feedback in Grades check that option
  • Select Download
    • Verify by opening the downloaded document