The Copy Course Materials into an Existing Course page enables Instructors to copy content from one course into another they are teaching. Instructors can select areas, such as Announcements, Staff Information or Course areas to copy. Copy Course will add content to a course, but it will not remove existing content.
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 an Existing Course from the Copy Course page.
Enter a Course ID for the destination course or click Browse to open a Search function in a separate window.
Select the check boxes for each course area and tool in the course that should be copied into the existing 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
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.
When Course Settings is selected, certain settings are copied to the existing course. These include the following:
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 Name
Course Description
Course Availability
Guest Access
Observer Access
Course Duration
Enrollment Options
When copying content and tools from one course to an existing course, the Course Menu must resolve itself in the destination course. The table below describes the how Course Menu items are resolved.
If . . .
then . . .
a Course area in the source course does not exist in the destination course
the area will be added to the Course Menu in the destination course.
the Course area in the source course and the Course area in the destination course have the same name and are of the same type (for example, External Links, Staff Information, or content)
the content from the source course will be added, but will not replace, the content in the area within the destination course.
the Course area in the source course and the Course area in the destination course have the same name but are of different types
the Course area from the source course will be added to the destination course under a different name. The new name will append an incremental numeral to the name (for example, Course Materials will become Course Materials1).
Links to parts of a course that are not included in the copy will break when the links appear in the destination course. For example, if there is a link to a Test in a course area and Assessments are not copied, the link to the test will break.
If the source course includes Course Cartridge content and the destination course does not have a Cartridge ID, the cartridge content will be copied to the destination course with the Cartridge ID assigned. This includes content that is copy protected.
If the destination course already has a Cartridge ID, neither the cartridge content nor the Cartridge ID will be copied from the source course to the destination course.
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.