Archive or Unarchive an Echo

In this section:

Overview

Your System Administrator may ask you to archive Echoes or you may choose to do so yourself. Archived Echoes are often stored in a tape backup or other offline media. These forms of storage cost less than those used by active Echoes.

Archived Echoes are not available to students. To make an archived Echo available, unarchive it.

You may want to archive all the Echoes for a particular course or section. To do so, follow these steps.

Select Course in the Filter By drop-down box.
To select all the Echoes for the course, click Search. To select all of the Echoes for a particular section of the course, select the section (as shown below) then click Search.
You now have a list of all of the Echoes for the course or all of the Echoes for the section. Use either the All Displayed or All in Filter option to select all items in the list.
Continue with the procedure below to archive all the selected Echoes.

Procedure

This procedure shows how to archive an available Echo. Modify this procedure to unarchive an Echo that has been archived.

Log in to the ESS as an Instructor.
Navigate to Echoes > Echoes.
Click the appropriate tab to display the Echo you want to archive. To archive an Echo, click the Available or Unavailable tab. To unarchive an archived Echo, click the Archived tab.
Select the Echo.
In the Actions drop-down list on the bottom of the page, select Archive Selected.
In the pop-up box that appears, do one of the following:
- Select the archive where the Echo will be saved
- Click Add New and specify a new location
Click Continue.
Notice the progress message at the top of the window.
To verify that the Echo was archived, do one or both of the following:
- Click the Archived tab. Notice that the Echo is listed.
- Notice that the numbers of Echoes in the tabs have changed. The number of Echoes in the Archived tab is increased by one. The number of Echoes in the Available or Unavailable tab has decreased by one.