| When you set up your courses for the next semester in Blackboard, you may want to copy all or parts of a current or past semester course content. Faculty may use the Course Copy menu item from the Control Panel to copy course materials. |
| Using Course Copy |
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| Overview |
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Course Copy enables instructors to copy content from one course into another they are teaching. Instructors can select areas, such as Announcements, Staff Information, or other course areas to copy. Course Copy will add content into a course but not remove existing content from the new course.
Note: A user can only copy materials into a course when they have a role as instructor in both courses.
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| HOT: The Course Copy option does not happen immediately. Please wait for the e-mail telling you that your course has been copied before checking. Performing an additional Course Copy on top of a previous Course Copy will produce duplicate items and cause Gradebook errors. |
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Step 1: |
Click Course Copy from the Control Panel |
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Step 2: |
Click Copy Course Materials into an Existing Course from the Copy Course page. |
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Enter a Course ID for the destination course or click the Browse button to open a search function in a separate window. |
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Once the Search window appears select theSearch button to
view a list of the courses you are teaching. |
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Select the course you want to copy to from the list of courses.
The Course ID consists of the semester code and the Course Reference Number (CRN) from Banner combined e.g.
20085220406. This is the only Course ID format that is acceptable. |
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Once you have selected the course, the Course ID will populate "The Destination Course ID" field. |
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Select the course materials you wish to transfer to the new course by selecting the check boxes next to each course area and tool in the current course. |
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Note: A Course Copy operation cannot be completed if the user does not select at least one of the following areas: Content, Staff Information or Settings. If none of these options is selected a warning will appear. |
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| Additional Information: |
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The table below details what happens to each selectable option when the copy is performed. |
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| Course Material |
Behavior When Copied |
| Content |
Copies course materials, including uploaded files. Learning Units, links, and Course Cartridge content (including content that is copy protected). Users may also select to include Course Information, Course Documents, Assignments, and External Links. |
| Announcements |
All Announcements are copied to the new course. This option must be selected or the links in Announcements to Assessments will be broken. |
| Tests, Surveys, and Pools |
All Assessments and Surveys, including questions and options for deploying them are copied. All Pools are copied to the new course. |
| Calendar |
All Calendar events are copied to the new course. |
| Collaboration Sessions |
Collaboration Sessions and their settings are copied. |
| Course Settings |
Some Course Settings will be copied. See Course Settings below for more information. |
| Discussion Board |
Discussion Board forums, including the initial posts in each forum, are copied to the new course. |
| Gradebook Items & Settings |
Items in the Gradebook, and their settings, such as type, categories, and display options, are copied to the new course. |
| Group Settings |
Settings include the names of the Groups, the settings for tool availability, and the Discussion Board forum names |
| Staff Information |
All Staff Information is copied to the new course. |
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Course Settings: |
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WhenCourse Settings is selected, certain settings are copied to the new course. These include: |
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| Course Entry Point |
Course Design |
Course Banner |
| Tool settings that do not exist are added. Existing settings are not overwritten. |
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The following settings are not copied as part of theCourse Copy operation: |
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| Course ID, Name, Description, Availability, and Duration. |
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Resolving Course Menu Items |
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When copying content and tools from one course to an existing course, the Course Menu must resolve itself in the destination course. The table below describes how the Course Menu items are resolved |
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| If... |
Then... |
| A course area in the same course does not exist in the destination course. |
The area will be added to the Course Menu in the destination course. |
| The course area in the source course and the course area in the destination course have the same name and are of the same type (for example, External Links, Staff Information, or Content) |
The content from the source course will be added. But will not replace, the content in the area within the destination course. |
| The course area in the source course and the course area in the destination course have the same name but are of different types. |
The course area from the source course will be added to the destination course under a different name. The new name will append an incremental number to the name (for example, Course Materials will become Course Materials 1). |
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Links |
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Links to parts of a course that are not included in the copy will break when the links appear in the destination course. For example, if there is a link to a Test in a course area and Assessments are not copied, the link to the test will be broken. |
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Course Cartridge Content |
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If the source course includes Course Cartridge content and the destination course does not have a Cartridge ID, the cartridge with content will be copied to the destination course with the Cartridge ID assigned. This includes content that is copy protected.
If the destination course already has a Cartridge ID, neither the cartridge content nor the Cartridge ID will be copied from the source course to the destination course.
User records in the course will not be copied. This includes the following: |
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| Gradebook Student Records |
Drop Box Files |
| Assessment Attempts |
Assignment Submissions |
| Course Statistics |
Collaboration Session Logs |
| User Home Pages |
The Electric Blackboard Entries |
| Archived Discussion Board messages (including Groups Discussion Board posts) |
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