SPECTRUM MANUAL How to Back Up and Restore a Course Table of Contents Page 1 7 How to Back Up a Course How to Restore a Course ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTRE UNIVERSITY OF MALAYA SPeCTRUM Manual How to Back Up and Restore a Course How to Backup a Course To ensure a smooth transition from the old SPeCTRUM to the new one (Version 2.00+), you will need to do your own back up (and restore) of the materials from your old courses. Since the two systems differ quite significantly, a mass migration of all materials cannot be done automatically. Please execute the following steps carefully (Note: this method is also applicable if you just want to make a copy of your course materials). 1. Log in to the old SPeCTRUM (accessible from your new SPeCTRUM page under Archives), find the course you want to transfer under Administration menu, click Backup. 2. Tick the items (activity/resource) you want to backup. Version 1.010 2013 Page 2 SPeCTRUM Manual How to Back Up and Restore a Course 3. Click Continue Leave Course files & Site files used in this course to “Yes” 4. SPeCTRUM will then create a backup file in ‘zip’ format with a default name. You may change the file name BUT make sure to keep the ‘.zip’ extension. Backup File Version 1.010 2013 Page 3 SPeCTRUM Manual How to Back Up and Restore a Course 5. Click Continue 6. Wait for the next screen to appear (the duration taken will depend on the amount of your course materials). Click Continue. Version 1.010 2013 Page 4 SPeCTRUM Manual How to Back Up and Restore a Course 7. The next screen will show where your backup file is. 8. Click on the backup file name. For Mozilla Firefox, a dialog box allowing you to save will appear. Click Save File and save it, e.g. onto your desktop (Caution: this process will take several minutes, depending on the file size). For Google Chrome, you will see the following dialog box. Open the dropdown menu next to the downloaded ‘zip’ file and choose ‘Show in folder’ Version 1.010 2013 Page 5 SPeCTRUM Manual How to Back Up and Restore a Course Click this after clicking the dropdown menu 9. The file will be shown in the ‘Downloads’ folder. If you want you can move it to the desktop. Look for the file in ‘Downloads’ folder 10. You are ready to restore your back up file to a new place. Version 1.010 2013 Page 6 SPeCTRUM Manual How to Back Up and Restore a Course How to Restore a Course 1. Log in to the new SPeCTRUM and open the course you want to restore to. Click Restore (Settings/Course administration) 2. There are two ways to restore a file. EITHER: Drag and Drop the file that you want to restore into the dotted box. OR You can either drag and drop the file into the dotted box OR click Choose a file 1. Click Choose a file. 2. Click Browse and choose the backup file you want to restore. 3. Click Open Version 1.010 2013 Page 7 SPeCTRUM Manual How to Back Up and Restore a Course 1 2 3. The file name will appear in the box, as shown below. Click Restore. Version 1.010 2013 Page 8 SPeCTRUM Manual How to Back Up and Restore a Course 4. The following message will appear. Just ignore it and click Continue. 5. SPeCTRUM gives you several options. Choose Restore into this course and leave “Merge the backup course into this course” checked. Click Continue. Make sure this button is checked Version 1.010 2013 Page 9 SPeCTRUM Manual How to Back Up and Restore a Course 6. Click Next. 7. Click Next once more without changing any settings. SPeCTRUM shows you the items you have selected during the backup process. If you find that you have made mistakes, you will need to do another backup (so please be careful next time!) Version 1.010 2013 Page 10 SPeCTRUM Manual How to Back Up and Restore a Course 8. Click Perform Restore. 9. You will get a message saying that “The course was restored successfully, clicking the continue button below will take you to view the course you restored”. Click Continue. ======000====== Version 1.010 2013 Page 11