Tips of the Trade

COURSE COPY

One of the nice features of Blackboard is the ability to copy all or part of a course into another course shell. This is especially helpful if you teach the same course more than once a year, in succeeding years, multiple times in a semester or want to re-use learning materials in more than one place.

Before beginning, go to your new course shell (the destination course), enter it and copy the ID for that course. It will contain:

• Course identifier and number (such as BIO100)
• Year and semester (for example 064 is 2006, semester 4)
• Course reference number (the unique number given to each course each semester)

It should look like this: BIOXXX-064 -12345 

With that number written down, you are ready to continue. Go to your "source course" or the course that has the material you want to copy.

Enter the control panel and look at Course Options. You will find an option called course copy.

Click on course copy, "copy course materials into an existing course".

Enter the course ID you copied from your destination course into the box (or if you want to browse to find it that is also an option).

Next you can choose which materials you want to forward to the new course. Select the areas and items. Do not select “enrollments” or your class list will move to the new class!

When you have selected what needs to be copied, select submit. You will see a screen that confirms that your request has been received and is in queue to be copied. When it has copied everything you will receive another email as final confirmation.

We recommend that you check the destination course to be sure that everything copied successfully.

What a great way to make your life easier and save time!

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