Create or Copy your course content: At leasttwo weeksprior to the semester starting, ensure that your course has been designed or your content has been transferred to your course shell for the current semester. Ensure that your course start date has been set.
Copy (import) Canvas Content into other Canvas Courses:Instead of creating the same content in every class, create it once andimport it into the additional sectionsyou teach. This is also helpful if you want to re-purpose a course with similar design and layout.
Once your content is in your course shell:
Set all due dates for assignments and assessments and make sure your course ready for students to enter on the course start date.
Publish your course on the course start date (or before if you want students to see the course on their dashboard).
Once your course(s) have been created in Canvas the next step is to copy content over from your previous semester course (or Sandbox course). Unless you are starting your course from scratch, there are two options, a full course copy or selecting specific content from a course to copy over. The following tabs provide information about each and directions.
In most cases once faculty get their course(s) built they will copy their entire course from one semester to the next semester. This copy includes all course content, assignments, links, etc. It does not include any student information or assignment submissions.
See the following guide for directions on how to copy an entire course: How do I import content from another Canvas course? (Links to an external site.)
As part of the course copy you might also want to adjust assignment due dates to the new semester. See the following guide for information on how to do this: How do I adjust events and due dates in a course import? (Links to an external site.)
For additional information see the following video walk through on how to copy an entire course into a different course.
Once you start building and working more in Canvas you might need to copy parts of one course in Canvas into another course in Canvas. For example, if you have a discussion rubric that you'd like to use in all of your courses you could create it in one course and then copy it into your other courses in Canvas.
See the following guide for directions on how to copy specific parts of a course into another course: How do I select specific content as part of a course import? (Links to an external site.)
For additional information see the following video walk through on how to copy parts of a course into a different course.