What is a Course Copy?
You can copy entire courses and/or select individual items from other courses you’re currently teaching or have taught in the past. You can also combine items from multiple courses with a full course copy or individual item copies by selecting the checkboxes. Learn more about copying over individual course content items, like a test, assignment or file by reading this Faculty Blackboard Help page here.
While copying the entire course is possible, exporting and importing the entire course content can also be performed. Please refer to other resources for exporting and importing a course package.
Before you Begin a Course Copy…
- When copying a course, Innovative Learning recommends that you copy the entire course rather than just the content in the course. Copying only the content may result in styling and formatting issues, because copying individual items may not automatically copy over items referenced by the selected item.
- You can only copy materials into a course if you have the role of instructor, teaching assistant (TA), or course builder.
- Hidden courses will not be selectable in the Copy Content panel.
- Copying does not include student-specific data (e.g. test and assignment submissions, grades, discussion posts, attendance data). Full-course copy will copy all announcements from the previous course.
- Content migrated from one course to another always needs to be reviewed and tested (i.e. ensure all the settings were retained in the migration process) prior to publishing them, particularly when Blackboard integrations like Respondus are involved.
How do I complete a Course Copy?
Follow the steps below to copy an entire course:
- Open the destination course – the course where you want to copy the content.
- Click on the three dots in the top-right corner. You will see a menu where you can click on Copy Items to go to the Copy Items Page.
- Find the course that needs to be copied from and select the checkbox next to it.
- On the right panel, click on “Start Copy” at the bottom. It may take some time to complete the copy process. Once it is finished, you will be able to see all the items copied from the selected course.
For copying over Respondus enabled tests or exams, please note:
After copying the Respondus test or exam using the “Copy Items” option to transfer content from the previous course, the instructor must go into the new course, access each of the exam settings, and select the Respondus LockDown Browser option. This will redirect them to the Respondus settings page; without completing this step, students will not be able to take the exams in the new course.
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