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Beginning with the Fall 2024 semester, Brandeis will move from LATTE to Moodle 4. Please visit our Moodle 4 documentation. LATTE courses will be available through Fall 2024.
Many faculty members reuse the same course materials from a previous iteration of the course. You have two options within LATTE to reuse previous course materials:
Restoring will duplicate the previous LATTE course exactly and remove the default template formatting. Restoring is the recommended option with the LATTE Shell. Importing will keep the default template formatting and merge your previous course materials into the course, but may duplicate certain activities and resources already included in the template.
Please follow the directions below to either restore or import your course.
IMPORTANT: The Import and Backup/Restore steps can only be completed in LATTE by the Instructor and Academic Administrator Roles. The Grading TA role can personalize the course shell after the import or restore process is complete.
As soon as you have access to your course
IMPORTANT: To create course backups and restore materials from one course to another, you must have Instructor status in both courses.
Please continue the instructions in the Step 2: Restore into New Course tab.
Open your new course. Select Restore in the Administration block.
On the Restore page, find the User private backup area and select Restore to the right of the course backup that you just created.
If you have a course backup file (.mbz) saved locally, you can instead upload that in the file upload box at the top of the page.
On the Backup Detail page, accept the defaults and select Continue.
On the Destination page, you will select whether to merge or delete the current contents of your new course. Once you have chosen, select Continue.
To overwrite the course template for your new course, select Delete the contents of this course and then restore.
If you select Merge the backup course into this course, the contents from both courses will be kept.
On the Course Settings page, go through your content and un-select anything you don't want to restore into the course. If you chose Merge in the previous step, you'll want to make sure you don't bring in duplicate items, particularly in the top section of the course.
Review your choices on the Restore settings page, and select Perform restore.
You may now see the following error message about restoring role mappings. Simply select Continue to move forward with the Restore process.
Your course will begin deleting old materials and adding the restored materials; this can take up to a few minutes. When complete, you'll see a full progress bar and a Continue button to take you to your updated course.
As soon as you have access to your course
IMPORTANT: To import materials from one course to another, you must have Instructor status in both courses.
Please continue the instructions in Step 2: Finalize the Import -- unless you are using a course from the Fall 2020 or Spring 2021 semesters, then continue to the Optional: Settings for Courses from Fall '20 and Spring '21 tab.
OPTIONAL These settings are for courses that have used the Fall 2020 (Shell A) or Spring 2021 Shells. If you are importing from a LATTE course from any other semester, please proceed to the Step 2 tab.
On the Schema Settings page, you will select exactly which materials will be imported. Some items will conflict with the Fall 2020 (Shell A) and Spring 2021 LATTE Shells and must be unchecked at this stage.
If the previous course used Fall 2020 (Shell A) or Spring 20201 LATTE Shells:
Please continue the instructions in Step 2: Finalize the Import.
Note: Instructors should expect to see past inaccessible formats (such as Tiles or Grid) correctly appear as Collapsible Topics in the new shell.