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Copying Course Content

Instructors are able to copy single content items and place them in another areawithin the same course or in another course

Instructors can also bulk copy entire folders, Learning Units and Course Content. Thisis particularly useful if you wish to re-use content between academic years

NOTE: Instructors must have an Instructor role in the destination course whencontent is copied to another course

How to copy single content items

1. Ensure that the Edit Mode button is On

2. Click on the arrow (which appears when you hover over an item) next to the resource

that you would like to copy (e.g. a document or folder)

Select the Copy option.


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3. Your must select the destination course for your copied content.

By default, the content will be copied into the course that you have accessed (e.g. Spanish in

this case). However you can click on the destination course downward arrow to select any

Blackboard course on which you have instructor access.

4. Next, you must select the appropriate folder in the destination course. Click on your

Browse button to view your destination course menu structure. Click on the chosen

destination folder for your content (e.g. the content folder).

This action places a navigation path in the Destination Folder text box.

5. Click on the Submit button to copy your content. You will receive a confirmation

message when this has been completed.

Note: There are certain content items you cannot copy in this way. Tests or surveys must be

copied using the Course Copy option (which copies all tests / surveys in bulk), orexported

and imported between one courseand another (to copy one single test or survey).
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How to bulk copy content (e.g. Folders, Learning Units, course

content)

1. In the Control Panel, under Packages and Utilities, click Course Copy.

2. In the Select Copy Options, enter the course ID of the destination course, or use the

Browse button to navigate to a course on which you have instructor access.

3. You can choose which menu areas of your course you wish to copy using the

checkboxes.


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NOTE: We do not recommend using the select all option. This copies all course content,

including announcements, assignments etc. These can make the destination course

cluttered and may cause confusion to students.

NOTE: The entire content of a selected menu will be copied over during this bulk copyprocess.

NOTE: You can copy additional Blackboard content such as blogs, rubrics and tests, surveys

and pools during this process by select the relevant tick boxes presented. Tests, surveys,

pools will need to be redeployed in the destination course.

4. IMPORTANT: Please do not select the Include Enrolments in the Course Copy option.


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5. Click on Submit to start the copy process. You will receive an email to confirm when the

copy process has been completed.

How will the Bulk Copied Content look in the Destination Blackboard

Course?

For similarly named menu areas in both courses (e.g. where a Content menu area exists in

both the source and destination courses), the resources will be copied directly into the

destination folder (e.g. the Content folder of the destination course).

Old course menu item (and resources contained within it)

copied directly to new course menu item

In the instance where the destination course does not have a correspondingly named menu

item (e.g. if a source course has a folder called Tutor Resources, but there is no

corresponding menu item in the destination course), Blackboard creates a new menu link atthe bottom of the destination menu list and copies all corresponding content into that

menu area.


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Old course menu item (tutor resources and resources contained within it)

appended to bottom of new course menu

copying content

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