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Accessing Previous Academic Moodle Courses

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Instructors may periodically need to access old academic Moodle courses for various reasons, including, but not limited to, obtaining student grade data and/or course content. 

This article provides instructions on how to access these courses.

Accessing Previous Academic Moodle Courses 

To find and access previous academic Moodle courses via WolfWare, follow these instructions.

  1. If accessing a course older than two years, connect to the NC State VPN first.
  2. Login to WolfWare.
  3. On the "My WolfWare" page select the "Past" tab.
  4. Scroll through the list of WolfWare spaces to find the course in question.
  5. Click on the course title or the orange and white M icon to open the relevant Moodle site, you may be prompted to login.

Moodle courses and the relevant data within those courses is only retained for 4 years per our WolfWare Retention Guidelines, SOP.WW-WolfWare.006. Any courses older than 4 years are no longer available.

For additional assistance, please contact the LearnTech Help Desk at learntech@ncsu.edu or (919) 513-7094, or via the "Get Help" tab above.