Course copying allows you to reuse your course materials from a previous term. You can bulk update your due dates to start with an updated course. You can also choose if you want to copy your old announcements into your new course.
Click on your new upcoming course.
Navigate to your upcoming course in Canvas. Never course copy starting from your older course. This will result in duplicate course content.
Click "Import Existing Content" and fill out Import Content's 4 sections.
This will be located on the first page of your course. Look to the right-hand side.
Fill out Content Type.
Click the Content Type drop down menu and click Copy a Canvas Course. You will see 4 sections you must fill out under Import Content: Content Type, Search for a course, Content, and Options.
Search for a course.
Under Search for a course, click into the field and then click on the name of your previously taught course.
Fill out Content.
Select one of two options:
Choosing All Content:
If you would like to bring everything from your previous course over, including old announcements choose the All content option.
Choosing Specific Content (remove old announcements from course copy):
Choose Select Specific Content if there is something you do not want to come over during the copy, like old announcements. Later on in the tutorial you will get to choose exactly what comes over.
Fill out Options to bulk update due dates.
(Do not skip if you use automatically apply grades from earlier.) Updating your due dates can now happen during course copy! Earlier you determined your Automatically apply grade for missing submissions usage. If you are using it, you must choose a due date adjustment option. Failure to due so will fill your new gradebook columns with zero's.
Click Adjust events and due dates to get started. Select one of the two options that appear to determine how your dates will update during the course copy.
Choosing Remove dates:
This option will remove the old due dates during the copy process. You can then add new due dates in your upcoming course.
Choosing Shift dates:
This option will move your dates into the new semester! On the left-side Beginning date and Ending date fields, write the old start and end term dates of your previously taught course from the Academic On the right side write the new start and end dates.
Click the Import button.
This will start the course copy process.
Check the status under Current Jobs.
The status it will say 1 of 4 things:
Select Content (to remove old Announcements from course copy):
Click the Select content button and check off everything you would like to bring over. Keep Announcements unchecked to exclude them from the copy proccess. For visual aids on selection, check out this Canvas guide: Visual aids and explanation of Select All Group Content buttons.
Running is shown:
This means your course copy is in process and has not yet completed. It will be completed once the bar fills up. Then it will change to one of the following status:
Completed is shown:
If it says completed, your course copy has successfully completed with no errors and your content will appear after you refresh the webpage or navigate somewhere else in the course.
Partially Completed is shown:
If it says partially completed, your course copy completed but there were some errors that occurred. Click the view issues button to locate information on the issues. Feel free to reach out to support for error assistance!
