Copy Course Materials from another D2L Shell

Audience

Faculty

Question

How do I copy course material from another D2L shell?

Answer

You can use the Copy Course Components tool to copy course information from one D2L shell to another.  You can copy such course components as Content, Announcements, Assignment folders, Gradebook, Quizzes, Surveys, course files, etc.

  1. To copy components, you must be in the receiving shell
  2. Select Course Tools in the Navbar, then select Course Admin
  3. Select Import/Export/Copy Components
  4. Select Copy Components from another Org Unit
  5. Select Search for offering
  6. To pull up a list of all of your courses, select the Magnifying glass icon, or enter the course number and select search
  7. Select the course you want to copy FROM by selecting the radio button to the left of the course
    Note: You can sort the list of courses by selecting a table heading such as Semester
  8. Select Add Selected
  9. At the bottom of the page, select Copy All Components; or, select Select Components if you want to choose specific items to copy
  10. Select Continue
  11. If you choose to “Select individual items to copy” for any of the course components, you will be prompted to make your selections. NOTE: You may need to select the (+) expand button to see available items.

IMPORTANT NOTE: If you are copying items from the Content area of a course, you must also leave the “Include Associated files” box checked. Otherwise, you are only copying the content structure and the actual files will not be copied to the new course. If you are copying MediaSpace videos, you must also copy the External Learning Tool links.

  1. When finished selecting components, select Finish
  2. RECOMMENDATION: Go through your D2L class shell to make sure that everything you wanted to copy over has been copied. Also check weblinks to make sure they are working properly.
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