You finally got a great course in Blackboard and you want to use it for next semester. Maybe you just want to move a part of your course to another course. Blackboard can make this easy.
The Copy Course tool differs from exporting and importing packages by skipping creating an external file for faster content transfer. Naturally its convenience comes at the cost of not affording you an external back up copy.
To use the course copy tool, you must go to the course that you want to copy content from. You should note that this is the course you are copying from, and not to the intended recipient of the content.
You can use the Copy Course feature to move select parts of your courses or the entire course to another course by going to "Packages & Utilities" on the Course Menu. It will be your first option. Select it and you will be brought to the Copy Course page.
You will need to select the destination course -- that is where you want the copy to go. When you do, select destination you want the content to be copied to and select "Submit"
Now it is time to select to the content to be copied.
Select all if you want everything copied. However there are two things to specially note:
- Selecting the Announcements will copy over your announcements. If you do not want them, you should deselect them.
- Likewise, copying the Discussion Board has two options. If you do not want all the previous students’ threads copied over to the next course (AND this applies to most of you) be sure the: Include only the forums, with no starter posts option is selected. Check for this first may save you a lot of deleting!
- Rubrics
- Content Folders on the Course Menu
- Tests, Quizzes, and Pools
You may want to note that with the ability to create content folders on the menu, you can virtually move any specific group of items from one course to another.
When you have all the items you want to copy selected, hit submit.
Within moments, all the information will appear in the destination course.
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