Embedded Files
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Yes, course settings are retained during a course copy!
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Copying content from another instructor's course?
CETL will need to complete the copy for you, with explicit permission from the owning member and/or their supervisor.
Course Copy FAQ
Course Copy FAQ
Recommended Settings
Recommended Settings
Remove Due Dates
Remove Due Dates
We highly recommend clearing the due dates. Otherwise, you will be clicking 50 times on the calendar each time you need to update dates! Check the "Adjust events and due dates" box, then select the option to remove due dates.
Alternatively, you can shift dates to the new semester, you must write down the OLD course's start/end term dates. You can find this in the old course by clicking "Settings."
One possible issue from changing dates is potential due dates causing zeros in the gradebook rather than the dash. Link to Canvas Guide
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Don't Copy Announcements
In the "content" section, select the "Select Specific Content" option (Image #1 on the right). Click to add to Import Queue (Image #2 on the right). The import will show in a list at the bottom of the screen. Click "Select Content", then check all boxes EXCEPT announcements.
Why?
An old announcement is seen as already posted in Canvas. So even if you update the publish date to a future date, the system still sees it as already posted and won't RE-post later. You'll think announcements are going out to students, but they're actually not.
If needed, just copy and paste from a Word doc or from your old announcements.
WArning: REtained grading policies
WArning: REtained grading policies
In the gradebook, instructors can choose the option for all un-submitted assignments to automatically update to a zero after the due date passes. If this setting is enabled in the course you're copying FROM, you will probably see a gradebook full of 0's in the NEW course. You can erase these one column at a time in the gradebook and it's a pain.
HOW TO AVOID THIS ISSUE:
During the course import steps 1-5 listed in the image above, be sure to REMOVE DUE DATES. By removing due dates, the copy will not trigger the auto-grade setting.
How do I copy a course from a Canvas zip file?
How do I copy a course from a Canvas zip file?
You will follow the same steps, with one change. Select "Canvas Course Export Package" from the dropdown menu, then browse your files to locate the zip folder.
A Canvas zip file may be from downloading Commons resources or from another course that was exported as a file to a computer.
What if I don't have access to the course content I need?
What if I don't have access to the course content I need?
Faculty can only Course Copy from an original course they already have access to in an "Instructor" role. However, CETL is able to copy from any course and can help you! Please note that if you're copying content from another instructor's course, CETL will need explicit permission from the owning instructor, the department chair and/or dean before copying someone else's content.
Email us at ✉️ cetl@txwes.edu and we can help!
Bulk Migrating existing quizzes to "new" quizzes
Bulk Migrating existing quizzes to "new" quizzes
If allowed by your institution, you can bulk migrate existing quizzes into New Quizzes by clicking the Import existing quizzes as New Quizzes checkbox.
If your institution enables the quiz migration feature, question banks linked via a question group in Classic Quizzes will migrate to New Quizzes. If the quiz migration feature is not enabled by your institution, questions from question banks must be individually added before migrating to New Quizzes.
Notes:
New Quizzes does not include a survey feature. Therefore, surveys migrated from Classic Quizzes come over as standard quizzes in New Quizzes.
After migration to New Quizzes, multiple dropdown questions display as matching questions.
Text No Question questions migrate to New Quizzes as Stimulus questions. An instructor must add a question in order for it to display in a quiz.
Question groups with manually created questions will migrate as item banks in New Quizzes.
If a quiz is migrated multiple times, Canvas uses smart merging to decipher the question bank content that should be retained. This process helps ensure all content is retained, such as in cases where multiple users may be making edits to a quiz at the same time.
Practice quizzes from Classic Quizzes can be migrated to New Quizzes. Once migrated, by default, the practice quizzes are displayed as zero points possible and are hidden from the Gradebook and Grades page.
Course import issues/errors
Course import issues/errors
See the Canvas Guide for this feature
When your import is complete, the status displays as Completed [1]. View imported content by accessing any link in Course Navigation.
A Completed status shown in orange [2] indicate the import contains errors. To view the specific error(s), click the issues link [3]. Examples of error issues include an external tool that needs to be reconfigured or content that includes a broken link.
View Failed
If an import is unsupported or otherwise cannot be imported, the status displays as Failed. To view the specific error(s), click the issues link.
Notes:
Imports may not include all content
Importing multiple times may override data and cause issues
Copying all content, including course settings, will also cause the grading policy from previous course to be implemented
You can leave/close the page during the import process. It will not interrupt anything!
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