3rd-Party Course Cloning Tool?

Question

Is anyone aware of a 3rd-party tool that can mass-clone courses in Canvas? We currently use Blueprints with our ever-growing catalog that runs 8 terms a year. Our current process requires me to manually create the associated courses every term and it's becoming quite the tedious task (Ex: 48 courses this term, and 56 courses for the next term).

Thank you!

mzimmerman · Accepted Answer

Hi @Carter41

I'm not aware of a mass-cloning tool off the top of my head, but you might look at SIS imports as a mechanism to create new courses each term and automatically associate them with Blueprint courses with just a .csv file.  See https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Guide/How-do-I-format-CSV-text-files-for-uploading-SIS-data-into-a/ta-p/216

As an alternative to Blueprints, if you just need the courses copied and don't need to have the content locked down the way that Blueprints allow for, you might look at Templates (https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Admin-Guide/How-do-I-select-a-course-template-in-an-account/ta-p/463701 ), depending on your sub-account structure.  Templates allow you to copy the contents of a template course into any course that is created under a particular sub-account, so you'd need a distinct sub-account for each course, and I'd still use SIS imports to bulk-create the courses for each term.