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Once you have your content, assignments, discussions, etc. set up the way you like, you can copy them to another course or to your empty course shell for the upcoming semester.
  1. Login to D2L.
  2. Enter the empty course that you wish to copy other materials into (destination course.)
  3. Click the Edit Course link located in the lower right corner of your navigation bar.  This will take you to the tools used to manage your course.  This link is not visible to students in your course.

                              

    Figure 1 - Edit Course

  4. Select Import/Export/Copy Components
  5. Choose  and click Next.
  6. The Copy Course Components page will appear.  Scroll to the bottom of the page and click the Select Offering area.  A list of your courses will appear.  Click on the name of the course containing the materials that you wish to copy into the course you have entered (source course.)  If you cannot find the course you need, click the Search for offering link to search your list of courses.
    You may only copy content from courses in which you are enrolled as a teaching assistant or instructor.


    Figure 3 - Select Offering

  7. After selecting the course offering the page will refresh and Choose Components to Copy will appear at the bottom of the page.
    1. To copy everything into the source course
                • Select All Components.  All of the items will be selected and
                  everything will be copied into the source course.  Click Next.


    Figure 4 - Select All Components

         b.  To select individual items to copy
                       • Choose the tool that you wish to copy and then choose Select
                         individual items to copy
    .  Click Next.


    Figure 5 - Copy One Item

                      • Select the individual item that you wish to copy.  Click Next.


    Figure 6 - Select Item

         c. If you are copying only content
                       • Make sure you select both Content and Course Files.  Your links will be                              broken if you select Content without Course Files. 


    Figure 7 - Copy Content

  8. The Confirm Components to Copy screen will appear.  Click Next when you are sure everything looks okay.
  9. The Copy Summary page will show the progress of the copy.  Click Done when the copy has completed.

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