Great news! You do not need to recreate your course content every semester. It is easy to roll it over from a previous term.

  • In D2L, enter your current course.
  • Go to Course Tools (or More) →Course Admin →Import/Export/Copy Components.
Course Tools Course Admin
Import/Export
  • Choose “Copy Components from another Org Unit” and select “Search for offering”.
Course to Copy
  • Type in your course ID you want to copy “from” (for example: BIO) and Search.
Course Copy Search
  • From the search list choose the course you want to copy “from”, then select “Add Selected”
Copy Selected Course
  • At the bottom of the screen, you have two options: Copy All Components (entire course) or Select Component (perhaps you just want to copy a few quizzes).
Copy all or selected

  • If you choose Select Components, select what you’d like to copy then Continue.

    • Copy Select Components

  • Course content should then copy from a previous course to a new course shell.

    • Please note Announcements copy over verbatim from course shell to course shell. So it is possible for your announcements to have dated information which can cause confusion for the learner.

    To alleviate this issue, when choosing the ‘Select Components’ option as shown above, simply uncheck the box next to Announcements. This will ensure that old course announcements will not be copied to the new course shell. Shown below:

    Example: ‘Select Components’ list with unchecked box