How I added content to an existing course with live students

My customer noticed yesterday that there was content missing from a course.  Now this course is being offered in a new *service this fall, the new service meaning we give one of our districts their own on-line course and allow them to use one of their own teachers and just their students.  Most of all our on-line offerings are offered open, to any district in the state.  Anyway.  The teacher is not real moodle experienced either.  Of course, I am not privy to all this info or that my customer would be sitting with the teacher and the students in real time trying to do some things yesterday.  Which again is fine, but would have liked a heads up.  But, I digress.

I was able to find the missing content in a course backup that i had from our vendor.  I could have asked the vendor to add the content to the course, but that starts to get a little risky and the course has live students in it with graded activity, so i could not just move their enrollments to another course that had the full content.

Once I found the course backup, I restored it and created a new backup with just the content that was missing from the live course, you follow?  Specifically, I pulled topics 7-11 of the course.  Topics 1-6 were already in the course.  I am sure we got a request in the previous year to split the course.

I backed up the live course (just in case) and then restored the new backup into the existing course.  Moodle is good at this process, thankfully.  It took a few minutes but completed.

Next, I had to run the course scripter on the course again, it formats assignments, quizzes and forums.  Then I ran my sort utility, it mostly arranges the gradeable course items so the User report matches the course home page.  This works well, until you manually merg content like I did, so I ended up manually moving some of the gradeable items in the Full gradebook view (I have permission to do this).  A little tedious, yes, but was able to move the items around to match the exact order of the course page (in terms of assignments, forums and quizzes - the big 3 gradeable activities.)