This documentation outlines the process for importing course content from a previous course to a current course for re-use. This process assumes you already have access to both the course you want to pull content from as well as the course you want to import content into. If you would like to import content from an older course that is no longer in Course Site, please contact submit a ticket to the Instructional Technology team making sure to include the name of the course you would like access to, what semester it is from, and how long you need temporary access to it.
Importing Course Content
Course activities and resources may be imported from any other course in which you have editing permissions. This will allow you to re-use instead of re-creating one or more activities or resources. Import course data does not include any student data, e.g. forum posts or submitted assignments!
Please Note: When you import data, you will NOT overwrite any existing content in your course shell.
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| Go into the old course that contains the content to be copied: Go to Gear Icon >> Edit Settings CHECK COURSE NAME - Note the exact Course full name or short name in case you need to search for it in the import course list.
- We suggest that you simply copy the Course short name to your clipboard from the edit course settings page.
- Note how many topic areas/weeks are in the old course
- If your old course has more topics than your new course, you will need to unhide those additional sections in the new course once copied
- If your old course has less topics than your new course (Default is 17), you will not need to take any additional steps
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| Go to the new course. Go to Gear Icon >> Import - On the Find a course to import data from: page, select the old course that contains the content to be copied.
- Note - that you may need to search for that course if it does not appear in the list. You will need to search for the exact short name of the course, i.e., "MGT-301-010-SU12." If you copied the exact name of the old course as described in a previous step, simply paste it into the Search field and click on Search.
- When you locate the course that contains the content to be copied, click on the button to the left of the name to indicate your selection.
- Click Continue. This will step you through the import process.
- On the Backup Settings page, choose the general category (activities, blocks, filters) of items to be copied - by default all are selected. In general, those are good options. Click Next.
- On the next page, you will be prompted to select individual resources, activities, labels, basically all items that were added in the topic areas in the old course - by default, all are selected. You may choose to copy specific items only by un-checking the boxes to the right of the items. In order to import an item from a topic area, you must also have that topic area checked!
- Uncheck any assignments or activities that use Turnitin before proceeding. Turnitin assignments cannot be copied.
- Other items such as Perusall Assignments, Google Assignments, Zoom meeting links cannot be copied and will need to re-added as well.
- You may also need to provision your course for Panopto and move any Panopto Videos that you wish to share from previous courses to your current courses's Panopto folder.
- If you have used activity completions in previous course, you will need to reactivate at course level as well.
- After you have verified that you have selected and unselected the correct items: Click Next.
- On the Confirmation and Review page, scroll down to confirm your choices.
- A green checkmark to right right of an item indicates that it will be imported into the new course, a red x means that it will not.
- Click Perform import button to import the content.
- This may take up to a few minutes, depending on the amount of material you are importing. Please be patient and do not click that button multiple times! Your browser should give you some indication that the system is working on your request and you should see a page that indicates the progress of the import.
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| When the import is complete, you will see the message, Import complete. - Click continue to return to the course.
Your materials should now be visible in the new course. |
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