Copying course content

Posted on: 4 August 2021 by Strategic Change Communications Team in Canvas at Liverpool

This blog sets out how you can transfer content from one Canvas course to another. If you’re tasked with rolling over content into a course for the new academic year, or want to move individual content such as a home page or a quiz, the links below will guide you through the process.

Copying a piece of content to another course

The following links will help anyone who is looking to copy one or two items from one Canvas course to another.

Copy a Page - please note, this same process can be applied to any Canvas items, such as Modules, Files, etc
Copy a quiz
Copy a rubric – when you are a Teacher user on a course, you’ll have access to any rubrics within it to reuse on any other courses when using the find rubric feature in assignments

When making an actual copy of a rubric to another course, we recommend that you the 'Import course content' option in Settings and select rubrics as the specific content to copy over. Guidance to this is outlined below.

Importing a whole course or selecting specific areas/content

If you are faced with the prospect of blank course shells for modules you are delivering in the new academic year, it will be easier to copy all of last year’s content and make the necessary edits. This step-by-step guide sets out to how to bring everything over, and/or how to copy specific content (such as a handful of Canvas 'modules' or quizzes).

Watch this video (4:24) to see how to carry out the copying process.

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