Copying a course
Intended Audience: Admins, Managers
Copy a course to re-use content in your current portal.
You can configure a course as a template to copy: for example set up a course with your Additional Settings, Due Date and Notifications, which you then copy for future courses.
The procedure to copy a course within a portal is the same, but you need to handle the results differently. See the detailed explanations that follow.
Topics covered in this article:
- Copy a course: how-to
- Copying a course within a portal
Copy a course: how-to
This same process applies to copying a course within a portal.
Note: You cannot edit a course during the copying process.
- From main navigation go to Courses > your course name.
- From the Action menu, select Create a Copy.
- In the Create a Copy dialog:
- select a destination portal: you can create a copy in your current portal
- select a status of Draft (default) or Published
- select Copy
Copying a course within a portal
When you make a copy of a course within a portal:
- the copy has the same title as the original, with - Copy added to the title
- your copied course has a new course 'framework', but both courses refer to the same content stored in the library, including
- Text & Image modules
- Video modules
- Audio modules
- SCORM and Tin Can modules
- Exam and survey modules
- Question Pools
- Assignment modules
- ILT modules
- Certificates
- any edits to a content module (either from your original course, or from the copied course) changes all versions of the module
- You can edit the copied course settings, and add new modules: these changes do not affect the original course
Creating a copy of a course within a portal is a way to share core content, then
- tailor the course with additional modules
- adjust the settings like due dates or notifications