Copy a Course (or Course Components)

This article provides Instructors with step-by-step instructions describing how to copy a previously taught course in its entirety or selected components of a course into another course in Brightspace.
If you are looking to export a course from Brightspace, refer to our Export Course Components article.
If you’d like to import a course from an exported package into Brightspace, refer to our Import Course Components article.

Copy a Course (or Selected Components) Into Another Brightspace Course

Before starting the course copy process, ensure you are in the new/empty course in which you’d like to copy content. (You will be copying content from another course into this course).

You must be enrolled as Instructor and/or Course Copier in both courses; the copied one and the one you’re copying into

1. From within your course, click on Tools > Course Admin from the drop-down menu

2. From the Course Admin page, select Import/Export/Copy Components. 

3. Under Copy Components from another Org Unit, Click on the Search for offering button. This option is automatically selected by default.

4. A pop-up window will appear. In the search box within this pop-up, type in the course code of the course containing the content you wish to copy and hit the Enter/Return key on your keyboard (or click on the magnifying glass icon in the search box).

• 1. Click on the radial button to the left of the course whose content you wish to copy.
  2. Click the blue Add Selected button.

5. When you return to the Import/Export/Copy Components’ page, you should now see the course code belonging to the course whose content you wish to copy listed where the Search for offering button had been located. The Copy All Components and Select Components buttons at the bottom of the page should now be enabled.

Selecting the Copy All Components button will copy ALL items from the selected course into the course you’re currently in. Brightspace will start copying course content immediately after you click on the Copy All Components ‘ button (there is no option to verify your choice when you select Copy All Components).

Selecting the Select Components button will allow you to choose the items you wish to copy from another course into your current course; this is useful if you wish to copy a few files or a quiz. If you click on the Select Components button, you will be brought to a screen where you can select which items to copy; choose the items you wish to copy from this list and click Continue at the bottom of the screen.

6. Confirm the items and click Finish

IMPORTANT : This method is recommended when you do not want Announcements to be copied (which prevents them from being sent to students in your current course). If you wish to copy quizzes, if applicable, make sure you also choose to copy the Question Library as well.

If the Question Library is not listed as an option on the item selection page, there are no questions in the current Library.