Copy Course Materials into a New Course

Overview

Copying course materials into a new course creates a course in the system and populates it with content from a course already on the system. The Course Menu specified in the source course will replace the default Course Menu in the new course.

Find this page

Follow these steps to locate the Copy Course Materials into a New Course page.

Click Course Copy from the Control Panel.
Click Copy Course Materials into a New Course from the Copy Course page.

Destination Course ID

Enter a Course ID for the new course that will be created and populated with content from the current course. Please make sure that the new Course ID matches the naming convention used at the institution. Also, The Course ID should not have any spaces or characters other than numbers and letters, dash (-), underscore (_), and period (.). The Course ID must be unique and remain static. It cannot be modified.

Select course materials

Select the check boxes for each course area and tool in the course that should be copied into the new course. The table below details what happens to each selectable option when the copy is performed.

Note: A Course Copy operation cannot be completed if the user does not select at least one of the following areas: Content, Staff Information or Settings. If none of these options is selected a warning will appear.

Course Material	Behavior when copied
Content	Copies course materials, including uploaded files, Learning Units, links, and Course Cartridge content (including content that is copy protected). Users may also select to include Course Information, Course documents, Assignments, and External Links.
Announcements	All Announcements are copied to the new course. This option must be selected or the links in Announcements to Assessments will be broken.
Tests, Surveys, and Pools	All Assessments and Surveys, including questions and options for deploying them are copied. All Pools are copied to the new course.
Calendar	All Calendar events are copied to the new course.
Collaboration Sessions	Copies Collaboration Sessions.
Course Settings	Some Course Settings will be copied. See Course Settings below for more information.
Discussion Board	Discussion Board forums, including the initial posts in each forum, are copied to the new course.
Gradebook Items and Settings	Items in the Gradebook, and their settings, such as type, categories, and display options, are copied to the new course.
Group Settings	Settings include the names of the Groups, the settings for tool availability, and the Discussion Board forum names.
Staff Information	All Staff Information is copied to the new course.

Course Settings

When Course Settings is selected, certain settings are copied to the new course. These include the following:

Course Name
Course Description
Course Entry Point
Course Design
Course Banner
Tools settings that do not exist are added. Existing settings are not overwritten.

The following settings are not copied as part of this operation:

Course ID
Course Availability
Guest Access
Observer Access
Course Duration
Enrollment Options

Select Enrollments

If Enrollment is selected, the list of users in the course will be copied.

User records in the course will not be copied. This includes the following:

Gradebook Records
Discussion Board posts (including Groups Discussion Board posts)
Archived Discussion Board messages (including Groups Discussion Board posts)
Drop Box files
Assessment attempts
Assignment submissions
Course Statistics
Collaboration session logs
User Home pages
The Electric Blackboard® entries

User records are only copied if the Copy Course with Users (Exact Copy) option is selected.