Exporting announcements with a picture.

Question

Exporting announcements with a picture. Will this ever be addressed by Instructure??? I teach 4 classes and have to copy over 40 some announcements to each class.  The college wants the picture included.

Greg · Answer

I agree it's a pain to lose that profile picture, @ShebaSchlaikjer, when copying announcements over from course to course. There is a browser script that can keep those profile pictures, and it was shared within the Instructure Community by another user:

User Script to Bulk Copy Course Announcements - Instructure Community - 634799

Note that this process is separate from the Canvas course copy process.

ShebaSchlaikjer · Answer

I would like to export my announcements from an old class to a new class and include my Profile picture and name.  I only export announcements which are about 25 or more a class, teaching 4 classes and I have to copy and paste as they want our Profile picture to show in the Announcements.

dbrace · Answer

Hi @ShebaSchlaikjer,

There are three ways to export and import/copy an announcement:

*  How do I export a Canvas course? - Instructure Community - 785  followed by  How do I import a Canvas course export package? - Instructure Community - 795  and using the How do I select specific content as part of a cour... - Instructure Community - 1091  option while importing to only import an announcement or multiple announcements (I would not recommend this option)
*  How do I copy content from another Canvas course u... - Instructure Community - 1012  only with the How do I select specific content as part of a cour... - Instructure Community - 1091  option while importing to only import an announcement or multiple announcements (this is much easier than option #1)
*  How do I copy an announcement to another course? - Instructure Community - 888  (what @Gabriel33 showed) to copy announcement (while viewing it) over to another course (this is the easiest way and what I would recommend)

I am not sure what you mean by: "Exporting announcements with a picture. Will this ever be addressed by Instructure??? The college wants the picture included."

Can you please provide us with more information?

P.S. You might want to consider reaching out to your college's Canvas team because it seems like there might be specific expectations that we in the Canvas Community know about.

-Doug