There are two steps to backing up your course section:

1. Backing up your section
2. Downloading your section

For more information on UNI eLearning backups, please visit: http://elearning.uni.edu/support/faq/backups.htm

Course section backups contain all the content that makes up your section. This means that section data, from the time when the backup is created, can be restored at a future period by an administrator.

Backups do not include tracking data. If you want to include tracking data in your backup, you must convert the backup to a file. For more information, see Step 2: Saving Backups as Files.

Note: You cannot restore backups. If you need to restore your course, contact your administrator.

1. From the Course Backups screen (Manage Course > Backup), click Back Up Course. A message appears.
2. Depending on the message that appears, do one of the following:
   • If the course you are backing up appears under The following were added to the backup queue, click OK. The course will be backed up.
   • If the course you are backing up appears under The following have reached or exceeded the quota of online backups set by the administrator, do the following:
     1. To skip backing up the course, select Skip backup.
     2. To delete the oldest backup of the course to make room in the backup quota, select Delete oldest backup.
3. Click Proceed. A confirmation screen appears.
4. Click OK. The Course Backups screen appears.

You can save a backed up course section into an encrypted file with the extension .bak. This allows you to download the backup to your computer and save it to a storage medium of you choice.

When saving a backup as a file, you can determine whether you want tracking data included. Tracking data allows users enrolled as Section Instructor and Teaching Assistant to run reports on Student activity in the section. If you include tracking data, the last processed tracking information collected before the backup was created is used. Tracking processing is scheduled to occur every hour.

Note: You cannot restore backups. If you need to restore your course, contact your administrator.

1. From the Backups screen, locate the course backup you want to save as a file and, next to its title, click the ActionLinks icon. A menu appears.
2. Click Save as File. The Content Browser pop-up window appears.
3. Navigate to the location where you want to save the backup file.
4. If you want to edit the default file name for the backup file, in the Save as text box, edit the name.
5. If you want to include tracking data in the backup file, ensure that Tracking data is selected.
6. Click OK. The backup is saved as a file to the location you selected.