Copying or Importing Your Course

Importing (Copying) Your Course

The process for copying content from one course to another in Moodle is called "import." To copy content from one course to another, you will need to start in the destination course (where you wish the content to appear). For a video tutorial, click here: Copying Materials from Another Course

Step 1

Enable the Edit button at the top right of the screen. 

Edit mode button enabled.

Step 2

Moodle, navigate to your destination course. Click on the More dropdown and select course reuse

More dropdown with course reuse highlighted.

Step 3

Choose Import

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Step 4

On the resulting page, choose the course you wish to import from and click Continue.

Note: If you cannot see the course you need, be sure to include a dash in the course ID number (i.e. "ACA-111", not "ACA 111").

On the resulting screen, click Next to deselect items to avoid duplicate links to support materials.


Course search area with a course shown and selection box highlighted.


Step 4

IMPORTANT - If you use weighted categories in your gradebook, do not deselect any graded items before import. Doing so will remove the categories from your gradebook. You can delete the activities once the import is complete.

 

Alternatively, click the Jump to final step button and go to the last step of this tutorial. (This will mean that some duplicates will be copied in.)

Jump to Final step and Next buttons, with Next highlighted.


Step 5

On the next page, deselect any items that you don't want duplicated in the new term's course.

These might include the Announcements forum, Course Syllabus link, Tutoring link, Student Tech Support Link, and links to the Academic Integrity Module and Moodle Orientation.

These links are created in every new curriculum course, so these will be duplicated if you copy them all over.

List of course components with check boxes next to titles.

Step 6

Continue to click Next through the pages (no other adjustments will be needed), and then click Perform import.

Checked Topic with Next button highlighted.

Step 7

The process of importing may take a few minutes. When you see Import Complete, click Continue to finish and return to the course.

Continue button with Import Complete message shown above

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