Frequency Asked Question

Course contents can be copied from another of your teaching/taught courses. This helps reduce the time spent on re-organizing the contents of new courses.

Notes before import:

1. Course settings will NOT be copied, such as student groups/groupings.
2. Contents inside activities will NOT be copied, such as forum posts and assignment submissions.
3. Settings such as the assignment submission deadline will NOT be automatically updated. Teachers should update them manually.
4. Increase the number of sections in the “Destination” course before import if it is fewer than that of the “Source” course. Otherwise the imported items will be placed under a section named “orphaned activities”

Sample Scenario: You have taught a course EN1190 in the previous school term 123 (“Source”) and you would like to copy its contents to the same course in the current school term 143 (“Destination”).

Go to the “Destination” course in the current term. Click “Import” under Course administration in the Administration block on the left.
Your teaching/taught courses are listed. Choose the “Source” course for importing contents. In case there are too many courses, use the search field underneath to filter the list. Click “Continue”.

Choose which types of contents to be imported from the “Source” course. You can leave the default selection, i.e. select all. Click “Next”.

Choose which exact items to be imported from the “Source” course. By default all items are selected. You should uncheck the Class Announcement item before proceeding. Click “Next” to continue.

Confirm your choices and click “Perform import” to start.

Wait until the progress reaches 100%. When finished, click “Continue” to return to the “Destination” course.