Copy or Import Course Content

Copy Course Content From Another Course
  1. Navigate to the destination course, click Course Tools and select Course Admin.
  1. On the Course Admin page, under Site Resources, click Import/Export/Copy Components.
  1. To search for the Source course, click on the grey ‘Search for offering’ button.
  1. In the Select Course Offering pop-up window, enter a search term (“20241” to search for spring 2024 courses) in the search bar and click Search to display the possible course.
  1. Select the Source course and scroll to the bottom of the page.
  1. Click add selected button.
  1. If you want to copy the entire course, select Copy All Components or if you would only like to copy parts of the course, Select Components.
  1. If the destination course is being set up for a different semester than the source course then it may be necessary to offset the dates for copied components. To do so, click Calculate range between two dates.
  1. Enter the start date of the source course in the From field and the start date of the destination course in the To field to calculate the offset. Note: Alternatively, the Offset by direction and range option can be used to manually enter a different offset.
Import Course Template From Zip File
  1. Navigate to the destination course, click Course Tools and select Course Admin from the dropdown menu.
  1. On the Course Admin page, under Site Resources, click Import/Export/Copy Components.
  1. Click Import Components.
  1. Click Start.
  1. Click Upload and select your course template zip file from the list.
  1. Click Import All Components.

Things to consider:

General

  • Copying into a course does not replace or override any current content. Instead, copied content is added to the end of any existing content.
  • Copying all components of a course will copy the homepage layout as well.
  • If you copy any Intelligent Agents, they will be disabled in the destination course.  The instructor will have to go into Intelligent Agents and enable them.
  • You can also access the course copy menu by navigating to the destination course and click Content-> Table of Contents-> Import Course-Copy Existing Course.
  • There is no undo process for removing copied items. Anything copied in error will have to be manually deleted.
  • If there are any LTI integrations (e.g. Turnitin, Respondus LockDown Browser, etc.) ensure that the LTI settings have been configured correctly for the destination course after copying course content.

Copy Select Components

  • “Grades” refers to grade items. Student grades cannot be copied into other courses.
  • If you copy individual tool items (i.e., Assignments, Discussions, etc.) without also copying the grade items at the same time the items will not be linked to a grade item in the gradebook.  It will have to be linked manually afterwards.
  • If you copy individual content items from nested modules (an item within a module within a module), all the nested modules will be copied to the destination course along with the content item.  Instructors may need to manually move the content items and delete nested module afterwards.