ALEC+Rollover+Procedures+2011-12

=BACK = = ** Procedures and timeline for the ALEC upgrade **** and rollover to the 2011-12 school year ** = = = We will be __upgrading__ to Moodle 2.0 and preparing for the rollover from the 2010-2011 school year to the 2011-2012 school year so the ALEC server will be down on Thursday, June 2nd from 5:00 p.m. through Monday, June 6th at 8:00 a.m.  The changes from Moodle 1.9 to 2.0 are minor so you should not have any trouble adding content and building your new courses.

Here are the procedures for __rollover__ from 2010-11 to 2011-12 · When you login to ALEC on June 6th you will see your 2010-2011 and your 2011-2012 courses from I.C.   · If you are teaching summer school those courses will appear in ALEC on June 6th as well. · Your 2010-2011 courses will be titled OLD and/or 2010-11 followed by the course name. · Any custom course(s), including Meta Courses, will stay intact and appear in your course list. You can use the same custom course again for the 2011-2012 school year renaming it if necessary. If it is a Meta Course you will need to add the child courses to reflect your 2011-2012 classes.

Because you will see both years’ courses it will be a smoother transition to move course content from one year to the next by using the IMPORT option when you open the new course. I have included a tutorial below on how to import your course(s) from this year to next years’ course(s). This means __it is **NOT** necessary to back up your 2010-2011 courses__ saving you time and space on the ALEC server and your computer. If you wish to back up your courses anyway I have provided links to the tutorials that will walk you through those procedures.

(4:43) [|Import a Course – tutorial] // (how to get your 2010-11 course into your new 2011-12 course) //

(2:46) Back up a Course - tutorial (1:30) Manage ALEC Back up Files - tutorial (2:40) Restore a Course - tutorial

You may begin IMPORTING your courses from 2010-2011 to the new 2011-2012 courses and/or building your new courses on June 6th after 8:00 a.m. Your OLD 2010-2011 courses will be available for importing until September 30, 2011. All OLD 2010-11 courses will be deleted on October 1, 2011.

Please contact Lori Hartman if you have any questions. She will also be available for questions or help during the summer from June 6-17th and then after July 6th.