Copy Content from One Canvas Course into Another

You can copy course content such as assignments, modules, pages, and discussions from previous Canvas courses into existing courses. You can also bulk migrate quizzes from Classic Quizzes to New Quizzes. 

Copy a Canvas Course

1. Navigate to the Canvas course you wish to copy materials into and click Settings in your course navigation bar. 

2. Click on the Course Details tab at the top of the page.

3. Click Import Course Content on the right-hand side. 

4. On the Content Type drop-down menu, select Copy a Canvas Course.
   
   

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5. In the Search for a course drop-down menu, select the course you would like to access. Courses are ordered alphabetically by most recent term.  

   1. You can also choose to include completed courses by selecting the Include completed courses checkbox, which is selected by default. 

   2. To search for a course by name, enter the name in the Course Name field. Click the name of the course when it appears.  If you have access to more than 100 courses, the search page only displays the Course Name field. 

6. Select the content that you would like to import.

   • To import all content from the course, select the All content radio button. 

   • If you want to select specific content, click the Select specific content radio button.

     • 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. Once you start importing the content, the import selection cannot be canceled.   
       
       

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7. You can bulk migrate existing quizzes into New Quizzes by clicking the Importing existing quizzes as New Quizzes checkbox.

   1. New Quizzes does not include a survey feature. Therefore, surveys migrated from Classic Quizzes come over as standard quizzes in New Quizzes.

   2. After migration to New Quizzes, multiple drop-down questions display as matching questions.

   3. 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.

   4. Question groups with manually created questions will migrate as item banks in New Quizzes.

   5. If a quiz is migrated multiple times, Canvas 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.

   6. 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.

8. You will have the option to adjust events and due dates either by selecting new dates or by removing the dates altogether. View Modify Due Dates During Import for more information.

9. When importing content, a message displays explaining that importing the same course content or export package more than once overwrites any existing content in the course.
   
   

10. Click the Import button.

Please note: Depending on the size of your course, this process may take several minutes to complete. You will be able to see the progress under the Current Jobs section of the Import Content page. If you chose to select specific content in your course, the current job would show as Waiting to Select, which means you must select the content you would like to import.

The import may also display other status indicators as part of the import process. Learn more about course import statuses.