Canvas Course Content Import 

The best option is “Copy a Canvas Course” and select last year’s course.

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Course Content Import Video Script:

00:12: In Global Navigation, click the Courses link, then click the name of the

00:16: course.

00:18: In Course Navigation, click the Settings link.

00:21: Click the Import Course Content link.

00:25: In the Content Type drop-down menu, select the Copy a Canvas Course

00:29: option.

00:30: In the Select a course drop-down

00:32: menu, select the course you would like to access. Courses are

00:37: ordered alphabetically by most recent

00:39: term. You can also choose to include completed courses by selecting

00:43: the Include completed courses checkbox, which is selected by

00:48: default. To search for a course by name, enter the name or SIS ID in

00:52: the Search for a course field. Click the name of the course when it appears.

00:57: To import all content from the course, select the All content radio

01:01: button. If you want to select specific content, click

01:05: the Select specific content radio button.

01:09: If allowed by your institution, you can bulk migrate existing quizzes

01:13: into New Quizzes by clicking the Convert content to New Quizzes checkbox.

01:19: If your institution enables the quiz migration feature, question banks

01:23: linked via a question group in Classic Quizzes will migrate to New

01:27: Quizzes. If the quiz migration feature is not enabled by your institution,

01:31: questions from question banks must be individually added before migrating

01:35: to New Quizzes.

01:38: If you want to adjust the due dates associated with the course events and assignments,

01:42: click the Adjust events and due dates checkbox.

01:46: You can import settings from a blue print course into another.

01:49: Blueprint course, importing Blue Print settings applies.

01:52: The same lock preferences to objects.

01:54: As the original blueprint course to import settings from a blueprint.

01:59: Course, click the import blueprint course settings, checkbox,

02:03: When importing content, a message displays explaining that previously

02:07: imported content from the same course will be replaced while manually

02:12: added content will remain.

02:14: Click the Add to Import Queue button.

02:17: The Content imports section displays the status of your import. Running

02:22: reports display a progress bar.

02:25: If you chose to select specific content in your course, the current job

02:29: will show as Waiting for Select, which means you must select the content

02:33: you want to import. View the other content from any

02:37: completed imports by accessing any link

02:40: in Course Navigation. The import may also display

02:44: other status indicators as part of the import process.