How to copy course content to another course

HuskyCT Admins are happy to copy your course content for you, but if you would like to perform your own course copy, follow the instructions below.

If you would like to copy only some of your content to another course, please use these instructions instead.

Standard Course Copy

If you would like to perform the standard course copy that HuskyCT admins perform, follow the steps below. This standard course copy option is recommended for most users. If you do not know which instruction set to use, use this one.

Enter the course that has the content that you wish to copy
Click: Course Management → Packages and Utilities → Course Copy
If you know the Course ID of the course you want to copy the content into, paste it in the field labeled, "Destination Course ID"

the course ID is different from the course name
1. If you do not know the course ID, search for the course by doing the following:
  1. Click Browse next to the Course ID field
  2. Use the search function to find your course
  3. Choose the radio box next to your course
  4. Click Submit
Click "Select All"
1. If you do not want your old announcements copied over, uncheck the "Announcements" box
If you do not want to copy discussion board starter posts, click the "Include only the forums, with no starter posts" radio button

Your discussion forums will be copied regardless of the option that you pick here. The top option, "Include starter posts for each thread in each forum (anonymized)" is usually student replies unless you have specifically configured your discussion board differently. If unsure, choose the second option as described above.
Click Copy links and copies of the content (include entire course home folder). If you do not choose this option, files that are linked from inside a document might not be copoied over
1. If you are only copying course tools such as Discussion Board or Announcements, use the second option, Copy links and copies of the content.
Finally, click Submit

Do not click "Include Enrollments in the Copy" or you will copy over all the students from your old course to your new course. Enrollments of courses that are imported from PeopleSoft are managed automatically through the integration with PeopleSoft. Consequently, this option should not be used!

Once you have completed the course copy, it is important to compare the destination course with the source course to ensure that all the content was copied properly. It is significantly more difficult to redo a course copy once students have started submitting data.

Notes:

If you have a SCORM package in the course, you will need to check the box called "Include Package Information" or the SCORM package will not copy properly.

How to find your course ID

The course id in the grid view looks like the following:

The course ID in the list view looks like the following:

Below is a video that briefly walks through performing a standard course copy

Additional Course Copy Options

HuskyCT admins recommend the above standard course copy for almost all users. However, if you have a specific need for one of the advanced options, they are detailed below. The specific steps to perform the course copy are the same as the above. The advanced instruction set is for copying, or not copying, specific types of content during the process.

Advanced Course Copy Options

Purpose

For a non-standard course copy, you will still need to follow the basic steps outlined in the standard course copy section above. However, you have some options regarding not copying specific parts of your course into the new course.

For the most part, unchecking a box on the course copy page (pictured above), will simply result in that item not coming over. You need to be cautious using these check boxes, as some of them can have unintended side effects. When performing a normal course copy, HuskyCT admins only use the "Announcements", and "Discussion Board" check boxes, and leave all the others alone. For that reason, it is usually not necessary to change the check boxes for any reason. However, if you find that you do need to change one of these check boxes for any reason, these are the ones that you need to look out for:

Checkbox Title	Effect
Grade Center	Unchecking this box will not copy over your grade center. All graded items are tied to the grade center. Assignments, will not be copied over if this box is left unchecked. If the grade center box is unchecked, other graded items like graded discussions and blogs will still be copied into the new course, but they will become ungraded discussion.
Tests, Quizzes, and Pools	If you check this box, your tests, quizzes, and pools will be copied over. However, if you also uncheck the grade center box, they will be copied into your new course, but will NOT be deployed in the course.