Blackboard Course Copy

Welcome. This video will show you how to do a course copy. If you are teaching a course that you taught in a previous semester, or you have a template for, you can use course copy to bring in materials you used before or you created in your template into your new course. You want to start in the course where the content exists. Scroll down to the control panel. Its important that you are either an instructor or a teaching assistant in both the course which has the content and the course where you want to copy the content. Click on Packages and Utilities, and then click on course copy. You want to leave the first option as copy course materials into an existing course. For two, select the copy destination course. Click on the browse button. This will pull up every course in which you have the proper access to copy a course, or part of a course. What you want to do is find the course you want to copy to. I’m going to select the sample course. Now, you can use this search button up here if you happen to have a lot of courses in your list. Otherwise, quite often if you go through the course name or the course ID, you can tell by these last three digits the semester and the year. So this right here is a Fall 12 class. This is a Summer 12. Once you select the course, so you click the radio button, and you’ll see this actually stays yellow. Click submit, and then you want to actually the box next to everything you want to copy over. If you’re copying everything then click Select All. Keep in mind that this will not copy over your old enrollments or anything that your students enrolled in your previous course did. This is only going to copy the content. You want to copy links and copies of the content. So if content is in your course files area, it will actually make a copy in the new course files area. And then, click submit. Now you should see a green message. This is letting you know that your course copy is in the queue, and you’ll actually get an email when the process is complete. If you click on My Bb to get back to the My Bb page and you go into the course where you copied the materials to, you’ll now see an orange message. You’ll see right now it says complete. It just switched from running to complete. I’m going to hit refresh here. You want to be sure to click on the X to close that message. If you leave it can cause your problems. Now you can go through your class, and you can clean things up. So for instance, I have an externals link area, which is blank because there is an empty box here, and then I have web links area. I can go ahead and delete the old one. There you go. That’s how you copy course content from one course to another. Thank you.