Setup: Navigate to "Administration / Users / Privacy and policies / Privacy settings Select option "Allow filtering of exports by course" Enable "Contact the privacy officer" too Create new user "student" Create three courses "course 1", "course 2" and "course 3" Create two forums "forum 1" for "course 1", "forum 2" for "course 2". Enrol "student" to "course 1" and "course 2" Login as "student" and create new discussion for "forum 1" and "forum 2". Case 1: Check export all data. Logged in as admin, go to Users / Privacy and policies / Data requests Create a new export data request for "student" current status should be "Pending" Run cron job (or wait for cron to run if configured) and reload the page, status should be changed to "Awaiting approval" Expand the "Actions" drop down, select "Approve request (all data)" status should be change to "Approved" Run cron job (or wait for cron to run if configured) and reload the page, status should be changed to "Download ready". Download and extract the exported data, check someuser data and data belong to "course 1" and "course 2" should exist. (You can find the course data inside 'System' and the relevant 'Category' folders. User data is inside 'System' and then a 'User' folder.)   Case 2: Check filter data before export. Logged in as admin, go to Users / Privacy and policies / Data requests Create a new export data request for "student", current status should be "Pending" Run cron job (or wait for cron to run if configured) and reload the page, status should be changed to "Awaiting approval" Expand the "Actions" drop down, select "Approve request (data from selected courses)"; a 'Select courses to export' popup form should appear. Check options in "Select courses to export" box; "course 1" and "course 2" option should exist while "course 3" is not (because user does not have data in that course). Select "course 1" then press "Approve request", form should disappear and current status should be "Approved" Run the cron job (or wait for cron to run if configured), status should be changed to "Download ready". Download the export data, check that data belong to "course 2" should not exist (otherwise it should be approximately the same as last export, for example the forum discussion information within course 1 should still be present).