Create or Copy your course content: At least two weeks prior to the semester starting, ensure that your course has been designed or your content has been transferred to your course shell for the current semester. Ensure that your course start date has been set.

Copy (import) Canvas Content into other Canvas Courses: Instead of creating the same content in every class, create it once and import it into the additional sections you teach. This is also helpful if you want to re-purpose a course with similar design and layout.

Once your content is in your course shell:

Set all due dates for assignments and assessments and make sure your course ready for students to enter on the course start date.
Publish your course on the course start date (or before if you want students to see the course on their dashboard).
Review this check list for important things to consider when coping your course.

Copying Content
Full Course Copy
Copy Parts of a Course

Copying Content

Once your course(s) have been created in Canvas the next step is to copy content over from your previous semester course (or Sandbox course).

Unless you are starting your course from scratch, there are two options, a full course copy or selecting specific content from a course to copy over. The following tabs provide information about each and directions.

Faculty Resources does not copy course content for Instructors unless the content is being copied from one Instructor to a different Instructor.

Full Course Copy

In most cases once faculty get their course(s) built they will copy their entire course from one semester to the next semester. This copy includes all course content, assignments, links, etc. It does not include any student information or assignment submissions.

See the following guide for directions on how to copy an entire course: How do I import content from another Canvas course?

As part of the course copy you might also want to adjust assignment due dates to the new semester. See the following guide for information on how to do this: How do I adjust events and due dates in a course import?

For additional information see the following video walk through on how to copy an entire course into a different course.

Copy Parts of a Course

Once you start building and working more in Canvas you might need to copy parts of one course in Canvas into another course in Canvas. For example, if you have a discussion rubric that you'd like to use in all of your courses you could create it in one course and then copy it into your other courses in Canvas.

See the following guide for directions on how to copy specific parts of a course into another course: How do I select specific content as part of a course import?

For additional information see the following video walk through on how to copy parts of a course into a different course.

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After reviewing the information from each tab above click on the Next button to continue with the resources!