Copying Course Material FAQ About the Copying Components Tool Copying All Course Components Selecting Individual Components to Copy

About the Copying Components Tool

Using the Copying Components tool, allows you to copy course materials from one course site to another.  The tools that can be copied over are:

• Checklists
• Content
• Course Files
• Discussions
• Dropbox
• Schedule/Events Calendar
• FAQ
• Glossary
• Grades
• Groups
• Navigation Bars
• News
• Question Library
• Quizzes
• Self Assessments
• Surveys

To access the Copying Components tool from your Course Home page, click Edit Course and then select Import/Export/Copy Components.

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Copying All Course Components

To copy all course materials:

1. On your My Home screen, under My Courses, click the link to the course you would like to copy materials to.
2. Click the Edit Course link located in the blue navigation bar.

   

3. Click Import/Export/Copy Components.

   

4. Click Next to indicate that you would like to 'Copy Components from another Org Unit'.

   

5. Near the bottom of the screen, use the 'Existing Offering' drop down menu to select the course you would like to copy materials from.

   

6. The screen will reload with a list of all available course components.  Check the box to the left of 'Select All Components'.
7. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click Next.
8. On the 'Confirm Components to Copy' screen, click Next again.

   

9. Please be patient as this process may take a few minutes.  Click Done once all materials have been successfully copied.

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Selecting Individual Components to Copy

To copy only selected course materials:

1. On your My Home screen, under My  Courses, click the link to the course you would like to copy materials to.
2. Click the Edit Course link located in the blue navigation bar.

   

3. Click Import/Export/Copy Components.

   

4. Click Next to indicate that you would like to 'Copy Components from another Org Unit'.

   

5. Near the bottom of the screen, use the 'Existing Offering' drop down menu to select the course you would like to copy materials from.

   

6. The screen will reload with a list of all available course components.  Check the box to the left of each tool you would like to copy materials from.
   Please Note: When copying Content, you must also copy Course Files.  Not doing so will result in broken content links.
7. If you would like to copy specific files or items from a specific tool, you must check the box to the left of the tool and then select the 'Select individual items to copy' radio button.
8. Scroll to the bottom of the screen and click Next.
9. On the next series of screens, you will be able to select the items and/or files to be copied.  Select the files and click Next.  There will be a separate screen for each tool you selected to copy materials from.  You will only see these screens if you have chosen to copy individual items, not an entire tool.
10. On the 'Confirm Components to Copy' screen, click Next again.

    

11. Please be patient as this process may take a few minutes.  Click Done once all materials have been successfully copied.

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