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Copying Course Content

Instructors are able to copy single content items and place them in another area within the same course or in another course.

Instructors can also bulk copy entire folders, Learning Units and Course Content.

NOTE: Instructors must have an Instructor role in the destination course when content is copied to another course.

How to copy single content items

1. Ensure that the Edit Mode button is On

2. Click on the chevron (double downward arrow) next to the resource that you would like to copy (e.g. a folder). Select the Copy option.

3. Your must select the destination course for your copied content.

By default, the content will be copied into the course that you have accessed (e.g. 1112-CEL263 Learning Technologies in this case). However you can click on the destination course downward arrow to select any Blackboard course that you have instructor rights to.

4. Next, you must select the destination folder of the selected destination course to copy your content. Click on your Browse button to view your destination course menu structure. Click on an appropriate destination folder for your content (e.g. the Classroom Technologies folder).

This action places a navigation path in the Destination Folder text box.

5. Click on the Submit button to copy your content. You will receive a confirmation message when this has been completed.

How to bulk copy content (e.g. Folders, Learning Units, course content)

1. In the Control Panel, under Packages and Utilities, click Course Copy.

2. In Select Copy Options, enter the course ID of the destination course, or the Browse button to a course that you have instructor rights to.

3. You can click Select All content, or choose which menu areas of your course you wish to copy over using the checkboxes.

NOTE: If you choose Select All, Turnitin assignment links will be copied over to your destination course.

NOTE: The entire content of a selected menu will be copied over during this bulk copy process.

NOTE: You can copy additional Blackboard content such as blogs, rubrics and tests, surveys and pools during this process by select the relevant tick boxes presented.

4. IMPORTANT: Please do not select the Include Enrolments in the Course Copy option.

5. Click on Submit to start the copy process. You will receive an email to confirm when the copy process has been completed.

How will the Bulk Copied Content look in the Destination Blackboard Course?

For similarly named menu areas in both courses (e.g. where a ’Unit 1’ menu area exists in both the source and destination courses), the content will be copied directly into the destination folder (e.g. the ’Unit 1’ folder of the destination course).

In the instance where the destination course does not have a correspondingly named menu item (e.g. if a source course has a folder called ’Web Resources’, but there is no corresponding menu item in the destination course), Blackboard creates a new menu link at the bottom of the destination menu list and copies all corresponding content into that menu area.

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This page was last updated Friday, November 23, 2012