Unarchiving to a new course

[Alex-Jordan]

When a course is archived and deleted, you can use the admin course to unarchive it. It comes back with all that it had when it was archived, including student data. Does anyone have a sense or how difficult it would be to unarchive it but exclude student account data? If necessary, excluding all user data?

The use case is, for example, if a Fall 2019 course was archived and deleted. And now the instructor would like a Fall 2021 version of the course. Currently, someone must (1) unarchive the old course, (2) within that course, export problem sets (3) create a copy of that course for 2021, and (4) import the problem sets. In addition to problem sets, something may need to be done about achievements and edits that were made in the old course to course.conf.

It would be nice if all that became a 1-step process. Unarchive the old course (while giving it a new name, if the name implies a term), and keeping the database data for active problem sets, but excluding all student data. If necessary, excluding all user data, but then adding admins and the professor like you do when creating a new course.

One WW admin here has started unarchiving deleted courses, changing the course name, logging in to the course to manually delete all student users, and then handing it off to the instructor. Is there any unforeseen unwanted consequences to that workflow?

[Alex-Jordan]

This is being done in #2291.