Prepare to bulk update due dates and prevent this common issue! 

What is the common issue? Your brand new gradebook is filled with 0's after your course copy. Let's easily prevent that!

Prevent common Issue: Determine your "Automatically apply grade for missing submissions" usage.

1. In your previously taught course that you would like to copy, go to Grades and click the grey settings wheel in the right-hand corner. 
2. Next, click Late Policies. 
3. Write down whether you checked off and are using the "Automatically apply grade for missing submissions" option. 

If you are, you will need to bulk update your due dates later on in the tutorial.

"Automatically apply grade for missing submissions" runs when it finds a student who has not submitted work and the assignment is past due. If you do not bulk update due dates during the copy process it will fill your new gradebook up with 0's because it found your past due dates in your new semester.

Prepare to update due dates: Write down semester start and end dates.

Visit the Academic Calendar. Write down the start and end date of your previous term and the start and end of the upcoming term your new course will be in. You should have 4 dates in total. This will be used later on to bulk update your due dates.

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.

Fill out 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.

If you do not want to copy your announcements, click the Select content option. Otherwise, choose all content.

Fill out Options to bulk update due dates. (Do not skip if you use automatically apply grades from step 1.)

Updating your due dates can now happen during course copy! In step 1 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. 

You will see two options appear:

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. 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.

If the status provides a select content button, click it and check off everything you would like to bring over. Keep Announcements unchecked to exclude them. For visual aids on selection, check out this Canvas guide: Select All Group Content.

The status will say completed once the course copy is finished. You may click Import Course Content from the first step to check up on the import status if you leave this page.