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.
Online Learning 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?Links to an external site.
**IMPORTANT** As part of the course copy you might also want to adjust assignment due dates to the new semester. To make sure your dates adjust from the previous semester to the new semester make sure to enter in a beginning and ending date. For the beginning and ending dates you would use the dates from the course you are copying. Example: If you are copying a Spring 2018 course over into Summer you would use the Spring 2018 start and end dates - January 16, 2018 & May 18, 2018. It's ok if you aren't 100% exact with the start and end dates, but the closer the better.
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.