This documentation outlines the process for importing course content from a previous course to a current course for re-use. This process assumes you already have instructor (or similar) level access to both the course you want to pull content from as well as the course you want to import content into. If you would like to import content from an older course that is no longer in Course Site, please contact submit a ticket to the Instructional Technology team making sure to include the name of the course you would like access to, what semester it is from, and how long you need temporary access to it.

Important note: We strongly recommend and encourage performing a selective import - that is, choosing only the content, activities, and/or resources from the previous (source) course that will be used in the current (destination) course. This helps keep courses clean and also makes efficient use of storage. This guide walks through the steps to performing a successful selective import.

Reusing Course Content

Course activities and resources may be imported from any other course in which you have editing-level permissions. This will allow you to reuse instead of recreating one or more activities or resources. Imported course data does not include any student data, e.g. forum posts or submitted assignments.

Please Note: When you import data, you will NOT overwrite any existing content in your course shell.

From Course navigation > More > Select Course reuse

If necessary, you can search for the course you wish to import content from. NOTE: Please search using only terms, leaving out special characters such as dashes.
Select the course you wish to import from and click Continue.

Import settings

While in most cases, you will leave the default options selected, you may wish to reuse certain settings. For example, you may only want to import the question bank, or only import activities and resources.

When you have selected your desired options, click Next. Do not jump to the final step.

Content to include

The next step is the most crucial when performing a selective restore. You will be presented with a complete list of all topics and content in the source course. Select only the topics/content you wish to reuse in the current (target) course.

You should uncheck any Turnitin, Perusall, Google Assignments, or Zoom Meeting links as these non-moodle activities need to be re-added to function properly. Once you have made your selections, click Next.

Review selections and confirm

The next to final step will display a comprehensive list of all the settings and content you have selected to be imported into the target course. Carefully review your selections, then click Perform import. NOTE: Depending on the amount of content you selected, the import process may take significant time. Please be patient and do not click the button or refresh the page - doing do may result in content being imported again.

Import complete

Once the import is completed, you should see the "Import complete. Click continue to return to the course" message, or an error message indicating that the import process did not take place.

Resetting Due Dates in Course Site

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