How to copy course content in Brightspace:
- Navigate to the destination course, click Course Tools and select Course Admin.
- On the Course Admin page, under Site Resources, click Import/Export/Copy Components.
- To search for the Source course, click on the grey ‘Search for offering’ button.
- In the Select Course Offering pop-up window, enter a search term (“20241” to search for spring 2024 courses) in the search bar and click Search to display the possible course.
- Select the Source course and scroll to the bottom of the page.
- Click add selected button.
- If you want to copy the entire course, select Copy All Components or if you would only like to copy parts of the course, Select Components.
- If you choose Select Components, click the components that you’d like to copy and click Continue.
- If you choose Select Components, click the components that you’d like to copy and click Continue.
- If you want to offset dates all dates in a course, check the box and enter the date info. Click Finish to complete items copied.
Things to consider:
- Copying into a course does not replace any current content, it adds to current content.
- If you copy any Intelligent Agents, they will be disabled in the destination course. The instructor will have to go into Intelligent Agents and enable them.
- If you copy individual tool items (i.e., Assignments, Discussions, etc.) without also copying the grades at the same time the items will not be linked to a grade item in the gradebook. It will have to be linked manually afterwards.
- If you copy individual content items from nested folders (an item within a folder within a folder), all the nested folders will be copied to the destination course along with the content item. Instructors will need to manually move the content items and delete nested folders afterwards.
- You can also access the course copy menu by navigating to the destination course and click Content->Table of Contents->Import Course-Copy Existing Course.