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Snapshot - flat HTML export of complete course

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Motivation

If you want to retain a completed Moodle course for future reference the only way, currently, to keep it visible is to leave it in place on a Moodle site. If the institution has a policy of having course material available to students for a number of years (as is often the case) this can effectively multiply the number of Moodle courses by a factor of as much as five or six. As Moodle has no concept of versions of a course this, at best, adds to the clutter and confusion for students. At worst it may impose a serious performance and resources problem for the site.

There is really no requirement for these courses to remain active in the sense that interactive portions of the course still operate. In fact it is actually a benefit that the interactive activities in archived courses are *not* operational (ie, are read only).

This proposal, therefore, is to explore a system for generating fla