Import course information from one Moodle to another

I am upgradin开发者_运维百科g the Moodle installation and changing look and feel, roles, etc. To do this i am imposing a content freeze on the existing version, copying the site to a new location, updating it, (we are making a lot of changes), then when ready moving the 'new' site to the old site location.

The problem is we have a number of people part way through a course and do not want to stop them completing but would like a way of taking the partial data relating to their courses intro the new version.

Any ideas? Anyone done this? To dangerous?

you could try the built in backup/restore course functionality. i would perform an in-depth test of it before you start the migrations, as at least on old moodle versions (iirc ~1.5 or 1.6), the results of backup / restore were not always perfect..

Your plan sounds reasonable. Why not after updating the new site, new look, courses, role changes etc, just switching the DNS from the old site to the new?

You could also back up the moodle DB on the old site, I use phpMyAdmin, make the changes in place and then do a in-place upgrade.