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When to Use?
In Blackboard Ultra, you have the ability to copy individual content items or all content items from a course or organization.
INSTRUCTORS: if you want to share your course content with another instructor, the instructor will need to be added to your course. Submit a request to add the instructor using the Enroll User Request service offering. Once added, the instructions below can be utilized to copy content.
Procedure
Copying an Entire Course
On the Course Content page, select the More options menu. Select Copy Items.
You can now access a list of your courses. If the course you’re searching for isn’t on the first page, use the arrows to navigate or use the search bar. You can also search for organizations by selecting the Organizations tab.
Select the name of the course to do a full course copy.
You can’t do a full course copy from the course you’re currently working in. Make sure you have navigated out of the course you wish to do a full course copy for before copying.
When you perform a full course copy, all settings are preserved (including due dates, visibility states, and release conditions). However, course links inside of learning modules with forced sequencing can’t be copied. This prevents users from navigating outside of the forced sequencing option. When a course link is copied, all associated content is also copied.
If you have the appropriate permissions, you can copy courses that you're not enrolled in. The following privileges can copy all courses:
- Administrator Panel (Courses) > Courses > Copy Course
- Administrator Panel (Organizations) > Organizations > Copy Organization
Select Start Copy.
Copies are a queued process. The spinner that displays at the bottom of the Course Content page is a validation check. You don’t need to stay on the Course Content page for the copy to be processed. If you want to check if a copy has been completed, go to the More options menu from the Course Content page and select Course Tasks and Logs.
Copying Individual Course Items
On the Course Content page, select the More options menu. Select Copy Items.
You can now access a list of your courses. If the course you’re searching for isn’t on the first page, use the arrows to navigate or use the search bar. You can also search for organizations by selecting the Organizations tab.
Select the name of a course to access its available items to copy. The following categories are available:
- Content: Items that are listed on the Content page for that course.
- Discussions: Items that are listed on the Discussions page for that course.
- Question Banks: All available question banks for that course.
- Rubrics: All available rubrics for that course.
- Grade Schemes: All available grade schemes for that course.
Even if you select everything, this is still an individual item copy. Copying individual items doesn’t preserve release conditions and visibility states. If you want to preserve those settings, go back to the list of courses and select the name of the course, and then Start Copy to do a full course copy.
Select a category to access available items to copy. Then, select the items you'd like to copy. Content is automatically set to Hidden from students if you copy individual items into your course.
Review all copied items to be sure students can access only the content that you want and that due dates are correct. You can use the batch edit feature to update visibility and due dates all at once. Visit the Batch Edit page for more information about this feature.
Course links inside of learning modules with forced sequencing can’t be copied. This prevents users from navigating outside of the forced sequencing option. When a course link is copied, all associated content is also copied. LTI items also can’t be copied through individual course item copy. If you want to copy an LTI item, use full course copy instead.
Select Start Copy.
Copies are a queued process. The spinner that displays at the bottom of the Course Content page is a validation check. You don't need to stay on the Course Content page for the copy to be processed. If you want to check if a copy has been completed, go to the More options menu from the Course Content page and select Course Tasks and Logs.