How to Copy Content in Canvas - Widescreen

This video is part of a series of as to help instructors prepare for the upcoming semester In the first video I will show you how to copy content from one canvas course to another Before we get started I do want a cover some important information about Canvas courses. Each semester new course sections are created in Datatel and for each section a new blank canvas course shell is created with student enrollments in Canvas. The semester shells are named by course name, number and section followed by the semester year. Semester course is to have a start date which is the first day of the semester or mod if you are teaching a mod course. Students do not have access to the semester course until the first day of the course. So lets go ahead and login the Canvas and then in your course list select the course that you want copy content into and you will notice in blank courses that the course setup checklist will pop up down here. You can dismiss this when you're done using it just by clicking this X here. You can always go back to home and click on the course setup checklist to bring it back and we're actually going to select Import Content and on the next page you want to use choose Copy from a Canvas Course and then in your course drop down list you want to pick the course that you want to copy. If you want to cherry pick your content you'll want to make sure that you select migration content You can also adjust events and due dates on when you select this you can change these dates for example this is a fall course and I want to move it to the spring semester so all I have to do is click on these and selected day that I want to make my start and end date You can also substitute so for example if you know in this course that are copying the everything was due on a Monday and you want to make that it Tuesday you can select the day that you wanna move all the events to go head and click Import. This will begin the import process and in this case since we did select to pick content we need to select the content that will bring up this dialog box What you will want to do is unchecked the items that you do not want to import so for example if I only wanted to import quizzes I would need to uncheck all of these items. So you would have to go through that process. I just going to go ahead and import everything so I will go ahead and import content When the import process is done you will see a completed sign right here and in this case my completed is orange and that shows me that there were some issues. I can actually click on the issues to see what the issues were If this is green that means everything imported correctly, if you see this in red that shows that the import failed, If you have any problems with your import, you can always click the help button up here and report the problem or you can call Center at 234-5439.