Moving student submited work from course a to course b using moodle

I set up a couple courses last week for one of my moodle clients.  Actually, two health teachers who previously used one course with groups.  That setup is good, but this year, when the request came to remove the enrollments from the previous year and reset an enrollment key for the new year - I decided to punt the single course using groups and split the course into two, one copy for each teacher.  I ran this by them first and they had no problem.

I backed up the course, with no student data and then restored it.  With the second or restored course, I enrolled one of the teachers and removed him from the other. 

Simple - easy.  Made sense.

The site allows users to create their own accounts and enroll automatically, providing an enrollment key from the teacher.  The teachers had a list of the student emails.

Enrollments ensued the following day, with most students creating their accounts and enrolling into the correct course.  I had a couple students have a little trouble, I helped them and the teachers get settled.

A couple days later, I got a message that one of the students was enrolled in the wrong course and could we move him.  I looked in the grade book and copied the scores of 5 or 6 graded entities - which were all of the moodle type assignment.  I enrolled the student into the other course and removed him from the incorrect one.  Good.  A couple days later, the teacher messaged me and said

  "Dave is listed on my roster now, but none of his work has been submitted. Is there a way to transfer his assignments/ grades from Trevor's class? If not, David- you will need to resubmit."

Well - I could have said to have Dave re-submit his work, but this seemed like something I could/should do for the customer.  I had updated the gradebook for the assignments that he had done in the wrong course, but did not actually move any of his work.

I ended up adding an enrollment back into the incorrect course, temporarily, which allowed me to log in as him and see what he had submitted in those activities.  I opened two browser tabs and logged in as Dave in both the courses.  Then copied and pasted his assignment responses for 5 of the activities and downloaded and uploaded 1 file for one activity.

Seems that was a good solution, customers happy, student happy.  And, for a bonus - it kinda informed my brain that students can upload a textual response to an assignment activity, just as easily as uploading a file.  Maybe even a little easier. 

A quick pic of the assignment activity in the course.

That's a large image, but you can see where the student options for the assignment are first: a textual response and then a file submission.

The end.