Wiki Page, Welcome to Canvas 101: Import Content

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Tips

When importing content from a previous year's course, you may find it helpful to Select the Content. There may be some things you don't want, like Calendar Events, which are not the same thing as Assignments.

You can find courses, modules, pages, quizzes, assignments, etc. in the Commons that other instructors have created and shared, which you can easily import into your course and then edit.

Guides

Importing Content from Another One of Your Canvas Courses Guide by Janetta

Course Import Tool Guides

Course Import Tool

The Course Import Tool makes it easy to extract course content, assignments, and quizzes from previous semesters/years and quickly import them into existing courses. It's also a way to import content from other courses.

During the import process you can choose to import all the content from another course, or select specific content to import.

During the import process, you can choose to adjust the dues associated with course events and assignment, either shifting or removing them.

If you want a course import to include the Outcomes, you will need to import the entire course and not select just certain components.

This same tool is used to import course materials from different Learning Management Systems such as Moodle, Blackboard, and Schoology.

Importing Content from Other Teacher's Courses

To be able to access another teacher's course to important content from it into your course, you need to be enrolled as a Collaborator in the other teacher's course. The other teacher can easily enroll you in his/her course as a Collaborator. As a collaborator, you will NOT be able to edit the other teacher's course, or see any of the students or their work.

It is recommended that prior to doing this, you both edit the names of your courses to include your initials and the current school year. This will eliminate confusion during the import process.

You will open the course into which you want to import their content, access the import tool and choose the other's teacher's course. You will want to check the option to Select Content because you probably don't want everything in their course, for example their syllabus and teacher profile page.

Video Tutorials