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Course-to-Course Copying in Canvas: A Quick Guide

by Thomas Keith | May 24, 2018 | Canvas , Canvas Features/Functions , How-tos

When you’re setting up a new Canvas course site, you may want to reuse material from one or more courses you’ve already taught in Canvas.  Fortunately, Canvas makes it easy to copy content from one course site to another, whether you want to copy an entire course or only certain course materials.  Here are the basic steps for a course-to-course copy:

1. Create your new Canvas site.

4. Find the Canvas course you want to copy from, via the drop-down menu or search box.

5. Choose whether you want to import All Content or Selected Content .  You can also adjust the due dates of your assignments by checking the Adjust events and due dates box.

6. Click Import .

7. If you chose All Content , you’re done.  If you chose Selected Content , you can now pick which content you want to      import before completing the import process.

8. Review any issues that may have come up during the import process.

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How to Copy Specific Materials from One Canvas Course to Another Canvas Course

Instructors in a Canvas course may copy over their individually created content from one Canvas course to another course they are enrolled in. Items that can be copied using this method are: announcements, modules, pages, assignments, discussions, and quizzes (includes New Quizzes). This process is an alternative to using the “Import Course Content” feature which allows bulk copying of content from one Canvas course to another.

**Exceptions: Files, external URL, and external tool links do not have this option.**

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• How do I copy a discussion to another course?
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Canvas enables you to import content from one Canvas course to another when you want to use or repurpose previously created content, including: 

• Course Settings
• Assignments
• Discussions.

Make Course Updates and Revisions After Import

Once the content has been copied to the new course, there are a number updates/revisions that need to be made. Refer back to this list after you import your content.

• Revise course syllabus
• Difference between assignment due dates and availability dates
• Bulk update due date and availability dates
• 'Show quiz answers' dates (if applicable) 
• Revise course announcements
• Any dates listed on pages, modules, titles or anywhere else in the course.
• Review Canvas Files to make sure all files including images you are using are in the Canvas site and delete any files you are not using.

Import Process

• Select the course you would like to import the content into (i.e. a new course site)
• Click Settings on the Course Navigation menu
• Click Import Course Content on the right side of the page

• Locate the course you want to copy content from by typing the name of the course
• Click to select the desired course
• Choose what you want to copy.  
• Select All content if you want to import everything from the previous course
• Choose  Select specific content  if you only want select elements from a previous course
• Canvas gives you the option to manually shift events and due dates or have the system shift the dates. We recommend manually updating the dates after you import the content.
• Click Import .

Import Progress - View Current Jobs

After you have clicked Import, the  Current Jobs menu displays courses that are being imported. Statuses include pre-processing, queued, running, completed, and failed.

The "Running" status bar displays the time remaining on your Import.

• If you selected "All Content" you should see this status, followed by Completed, soon after.

• When you click Select Content , a window will appear with a list of Canvas tools
• Select the box next to the tool to import all the elements of that tool or click the arrow to expose the individual elements of that tool for selection
• Click Select Content after you have made your selections

• When your import is complete, you will see the Completed status.

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How to copy from one Canvas course to another

November 6, 2020

Interterm and Spring 2021 courses are now available in Canvas.

Before you hit “copy all” please check the following resources and avoid the most common issues., best practice :.

Do NOT “Copy All” when copying from one course to another. You will end up with more than you bargained for. Use caution when copying the Calendar. It will copy events from the PAST which you likely don’t want in your future course. Do NOT copy things more than once into the same course. If you copy the same item to the same course more than once, the item you previously copied will be overwritten with the newly copied item. Always run the Link Validator after a copy to check for any broken links or links pointing to the wrong course.

The following items don’t copy  or don’t copy well, so expect to recreate these items from scratch: Turnitin assignments 3rd party integrations (Flipgrid, publisher content, etc) Calendar items Zoom meetings

Find and copy from your Bb Archive or any Canvas Course

Adjusting Dates for Assignments

• How do I adjust due dates in a course import? 
• How do I bulk update due dates and availability dates?

Copy a Module from One Course to Another Course

➡️  Canvas Guide: How do I copy a Module to another course? 

Copy a Page from One Course to Another Course

➡️  Canvas Guide: How to Copy a Page from One Course to Another Course

Copy an Assignment from One Course to Another Course

➡️  Canvas Guide: How do I copy an Assignment to another course?

Copy a Quiz from One Course to Another Course

➡️  Canvas Guide: How do I copy a Quiz from one course to another course?

     IMPORTANT NOTE:

• By default, quiz copies will not include unbookmarked question banks. To ensure your question banks are included, you must bookmark your question banks .

Copy a Discussion from One Course to Another Course

➡️  Canvas Guide: How do I copy a Discussion from one course to another course?

Copy an Announcement from One Course to Another Course

➡️  Canvas Guide: How do I copy an Announcement from one course to another course?

Things to check now that your course copy is complete: Run the link validator Check and adjust due dates Confirm any and all Panopto videos are viewable Confirm your question banks and rubrics transferred (if you have them)

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Using the image tool in designplus.

How to use the Image tool to insert and style images to your course. You will also learn how to use the alt text input field to update an image's alt text.

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Add an Image to Any Page

Add alt text to any image (using the image alt checker), add a caption to any image.

You can add an image or replace an existing image with the Image tool. The image tool also has many other options including adding style and alt text.  

Navigate to  Pages

Click + Page

Give the page a title

Launch DesignPLUS by clicking on the Rocket Ship icon in the top-right corner

Users should have  updated the Legacy Design Tools sidebar to the new DesignPLUS sidebar . 

Place your cursor in the editor where you want the image to go

Try to keep the larger text on a single line, but if you need to explain more, put it in the text below.

Click the Add New Elements tab if not already selected

Select Image from the Basic Content panel

This will insert an image placeholder at your cursor position. Note: You can also search for “image” or, if used recently, it may also appear in Recently Used Tools.

Select the image source where your image is located in the Edit Current Element tab

You may have to click the up arrow next to Change Image to expand the image options. You can choose from:

• User Images : Select the image to upload and embed the image in your Canvas page. If you are choosing an image file from a course other than the current course, you will be prompted to import the file into the current course. Select the destination and click "Copy to Course". This will import the file and update the image source path in the Rich Content Editor, so it is viewable by anyone in the course.  
• Course Images : Use the search field or Folders/Filters dropdown to locate the file. Once you find your image from the course files, select it and the image placeholder will update with the image path to the original image.    
• Primary images : Select "All Folders" to display course files and images.

Provide Alt Text or select image as Decorative

Alternative text provides information for an image if a user for some reason cannot view it (because of slow connection, an error in the src attribute, or if the user uses a screen reader).

(Optional) Click on Add Link to add a link to the image

Doing so will load the Link tool so that you can update the URL.  

Use the Style panel to add borders, shadow, or round the edges

In the style panel you can adjust the dimensions of an image, float an image around text, and specify the maximum width settings.

• Image Alignment floats the image left or right, centers the image, or resets the image to the default alignment.  
• Fill Container Width fills the entire width of the container with the image. Max Width Fill will display an image at a set width. The image will be responsive and will reduce in size as your students’ browser size decreases, but it will never expand beyond the size set. This is helpful for images that are not high resolution and may become pixelated as your students’ browser size increases. 
• Border Options applies the selected border to the image.  

Click  Save to keep your changes

The DesignTools Sidebar also provides a panel where you can update alt text (alternative text) for all images embedded on a page. Alt text is an alternative (non-visual) way to describe the meaning of an image. Alt text should be specific and not overly descriptive. Good descriptions are concise, but describe what's in your images accurately enough to understand their context.

Select the page you want to review for Alt Text

Click  Edit

Click on the Accessibility/Usability tab

Select Image Alt Checker from the Accessibility panel

The Image Alt Checker interface renders a list of all images found in the page contents.  A red border is used to flag any image alt text that should be reviewed.

Scroll through your images to set alt text or mark as decorative

When image alt text is updated, the red borders and warnings will be removed.

Click Save to keep your changes

You can use the DesignTools Sidebar to add an image with captions. Captions allow to you add additional information to an image or better describe what is happening in the photo. An image caption is different from alt text in that it displays on the screen. Alt text is read aloud to someone using assistive technology but is hidden from a sighted user. 

Click + Pages

Select Image & Caption from the Basic Content panel

This will insert a placeholder for an image and caption at your cursor position.

Select an image from the Edit Current Element tab

Enter your caption text from the Content Panel

(Optional) Adjust the caption appearance and settings in the Style panel

Once your image is added, you can use the Style panel to set your Caption Style and Border Options.

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