You can copy course content such as assignments, modules, and pages from previous Canvas courses into existing courses. You can also bulk migrate quizzes from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes.
The Import Course Content option allows you to copy content into existing courses.
Notes:
- Quizzes are referred to as Assessments in Canvas Career.
- Course imports may not include all content. For more details, please see the import content section in the Canvas Basics Guide.
- Importing a course more than once may have unintended consequences. If you import content into a new course, edit the content in the new course, and later import the previous content again, the imported content will override the existing content.
- If you copy all content or include course settings in selected content, the grade posting policy from the original course will override the grade posting policy in the new course. Additionally, imported assignments will retain their assignment posting policy and participation dates from the original course.
- When a course including a New Quiz with an item bank is copied, the bank is automatically shared with the new course.
- To prevent 0s (zero grades) from being automatically entered into the Gradebook when importing content into a course with a late/missing policy set up, it is recommended that you temporarily disable your late/missing policy before importing the content. You can re-enable it once the import is complete.
Open Course
In the Courses page, click the name of the course.
Open Settings
In Global Navigation, click the Settings tab.
This should lead you to the Settings page.
Import Content into Course
Click the Import Course Content link.
Select Content Type
In the Content Type drop-down menu, select the Copy a Canvas Course option.
Search Course
In the Select a course drop-down menu [1], select the course you would like to access. Courses are ordered alphabetically by most recent term. You can also choose to include completed courses by selecting the Include completed courses checkbox [2], which is selected by default.
To search for a course by name, enter the name or SIS ID in the Search for a course field [3]. Click the name of the course when it appears.
Note: If you have access to more than 100 courses, the search page only displays the Search for a coursefield.
Select Migration Content
To import all content from the course, select the All content radio button [1].
If you want to select specific content, click the Select specific content radio button [2].
Note: If you select the specific content option, you are required to select the content you want to import after you review the remaining page options. After you start importing the content, the import selection cannot be canceled.
Migrate Existing Quizzes as New Quizzes
If allowed by your institution, you can bulk migrate existing quizzes into New Quizzes by clicking the Convert content to New Quizzes checkbox.
If your institution enables the quiz migration feature, question banks linked via a question group in Classic Quizzes will migrate to New Quizzes. If the quiz migration feature is not enabled by your institution, questions from question banks must be individually added before migrating to New Quizzes.
Notes:
- After migration to New Quizzes, multiple dropdown questions display as matching questions.
- Text No Question questions migrate to New Quizzes as Stimulus questions. An instructor must add a question in order for it to display in a quiz.
- Question groups with manually created questions will migrate as item banks in New Quizzes.
- If a quiz is migrated multiple times, Canvas Career uses smart merging to decipher the question bank content that should be retained. This process helps ensure all content is retained, such as in cases where multiple users may be making edits to a quiz at the same time.
- Practice quizzes from Classic Quizzes can be migrated to New Quizzes. Once migrated, by default, the practice quizzes are displayed as zero points possible and are hidden from the Gradebook and Grades page.
- All Question Banks converted to Item Banks appear on the Item Banks page of the new course under the This Course filter.
Adjust Events and Due Dates
If you want to adjust the due dates associated with the course events and assignments, click the Adjust events and due dates checkbox.
View Content Import Warning Message
When importing content, a message displays explaining that previously imported content from the same course will be replaced while manually added content will remain.
Import Course
Click the Add to Import Queue button.
View Content Imports
The Content imports section displays the status of your import. Running reports display a progress bar.
The import may also display other status indicators as part of the import process.
