Disclaimer: Importing a course more than once can overwrite existing content. If you import content into a course, make edits, and then re-import content from the original course, the newly imported material may replace or override your current content.
Course copy is designed for reusing materials such as settings, syllabi, assignments, modules, files, pages, discussions, quizzes, and question banks. Some content types cannot be copied.
Open New Course
From your Canvas Dashboard, select the course that you want to import content into.
Open Settings
In the course navigation, click Settings.
Import Course Content
Click Import Course Content within the Settings area.
Select Import Content Options
- Under Content Type, select Copy a Canvas Course from the dropdown menu.
- For Search for a Course, type in the name of the course that you want to take content from. Include completed courses can remain checked.
- Select All content if you are planning to copy over your entire course. If you only want to copy certain assignments, quizzes, files, pages, and modules, then click on Select specific content. (Further steps on how to select specific content are below.)
- Check Adjust events and due dates.
- For Date adjustment, select Remove dates. This will prevent all content from showing up as past due or unavailable.
Finally, once all options have been selected, click Import, and the process will begin.
Selecting Specific Content
If you have chosen to Select Specific Content, you will be prompted with a Waiting for Selection queue. Click on the Select Content button and a new menu will appear.
Within the Select Content menu, check any boxes with content you want to import. You can also click on the arrow to the left of the checkbox to expand it to select only specific files within that section. When you are done, click the Select Content button.
Completed with Issues
After clicking Import, you will see a progress bar under Current Jobs. You may notice a Running indicator to the left
When the import is finished, the Running indicator will change to Completed. However, aCompleted status shown in orange indicates the import contains errors. To view the specific error(s), click the issues link to the left so you know what to address; most of these issues are missing links that didn’t transfer over during the import. You will need to relink them to the current course so your students can access the material.
