- Log into D2L and go to your new course site
- Click on [Edit Course]
- Click on [Import/Export/Copy Components]
- Choose [Copy Components from another Org Unit] and click the [Next] button
- Using the dropdown box, find the old course site you want to copy from. Note: do NOT use "search for offering" -- you will get an error when you try to "add selected."
- Wait a few seconds, and your screen will change.
- Either choose to copy everything, or select specific items to copy.
- Keep clicking on the [Next] button at the lower right, to proceed through the rest of the process.
- Remember that to copy your course Content, you must copy both “Content” and “Course Files”!
After you've copied components into your new course site, we recommend making the following adjustments:
- Quizzes: adjust availability dates for both the quiz -and- for any "submission views" that include answer keys.
- Gradebook: delete "overall comments" for any copied grade items. Also make adjustments (1) if you dropped one or more items in a category at the end of the previous iteration; (2) if you had grade calculations treating a "null" grade as a zero at the end of the previous iteration.
- News, Discussions, Dropboxes, Surveys, Content, Quizzes: adjust or remove date restrictions and release conditions.
- News and Discussions: if you embedded a link to a course file --even if you replaced the file in Manage Files with another of the same name --the original file will remain linked! To ensure students will have access to the linked file, delete the link and rebuild it using the file in the current course site.
- Groups: existing group parameters and categories are replicated in the new site. This could be good or bad, depending on how the current course varies from the former offering.
D2L 9.4.1 – January 2012
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