Back up a course

Your courses save to your account as you work. A backup is an extra copy of a course you keep on your own computer.

Save a backup

  1. Open the course

    Open the course you want to back up.

  2. Click Save backup

    It's at the bottom of the course's sidebar. A file named after your course, ending in -backup.json, downloads.

  3. Keep it somewhere safe

    The file holds your whole course, including its password and the key that controls it, so treat it like a password.

Add a backup back

On Courses, click Add from backup and choose the file. If the course is still in your account, Course Mark asks before replacing it: click Replace with backup to go back to that copy.

Good to know

  • Images stay online and the backup keeps their links, so it's a small file.
  • Download a copy, under "Prefer to host it yourself?" on the Publish tab, is something else: a .zip of the course for hosting on another website, without its sales page.
  • If Course Mark says This course changed somewhere else, Download my version saves a backup of what's on this device before you load the latest version.

More help guides

Still stuck?

In the builder, click Help and tell us what's happening: we'll see which course you mean. Or email support@coursemark.co.