The teachers can make a backup of the courses they have created.

Immediately after the backup procedure it will be possible to download the backup to the teachers local PC. This is a nice security, but it is also an easy way to copy a course from one PC to another.

The teacher can do the development on his local machine and when ready make a backup of this course locally. However, the teacher cannot restore a course, he has to ask the Administrator to import the backup to the production environment.

Only the administrator and privileged teachers that have admin rights, can create a course from a backup.

A teacher that works on his own test installation of e-gnosis will also have an Admin account. Therefore, he can use the backup to create courses on his development environment.

Make a backup

It is very easy to make a backup of a course.

1. Go to the "Course settings".
2. Select the link "Course backup".
3. A new page appears and select again the link "Create a backup".
4. Select a backup-option.
5. Click on the button "create a backup" for Archiving.
6. The system gives feedback about the backup process and proposes to the user to download the backup file to his machine (or somewhere else).
   1. Download the backup file.

Backup is done in the "Course settings", where there is a link for "Course Backup".

After the backup, the system gives information about the backup process and the location of the backup file.

Delete a course

It is very easy to delete a course.

1. Go to the "Course settings".
2. Click on the button for "Delete the whole course".
3. Confirm that you want to delete the course.

Delete a course is done in the "Course settings", where there is a a link for "Delete the whole course area".

e-gnosis ask for confirmation before deleting a course.

Render a course invisible

e-gnosis has many possibilities for rendering files inaccessible by the eye icon. However, this function does not exist for courses. Courses can indirectly be made inaccessible, by removing all students inscribed to the course. Naturally course settings must be set to not accept self inscription. See the user section in this manual for more details.