I was just thinking to myself if I had moved my Canvas course content from the completed year into my template so that when headquarters makes access to 2016-2017 unavailable I could still get to it. The answer is that I am moving content as I write this.
Below is a quick step by step, in case your forgot, way to move all your course content into your template for easy access and editing for this fall. Access may not be halted but there is always a chance and I don't want to take that chance. These steps are very easy and take no time at all to complete. Also, if you do not have a "template" you can email the help desk and they will make one up for you with the title that you request. They will not touch "template" titled courses when they archive.
This procedure has not changed. I am just listing it step by step for anyone not remembering how to pull this off.
Start in your course, from this past year, and edit each module title by adding the year of your choice. You may want to add 2016-2017 or what ever you will recognize as coming from last year's course when it gets imported to your template as they will be added to the template and not be replacing any modules. You will want to do this to each module. Also, if you like your home page, edit that page's title (by clicking edit on the page) in such a way that you will recognize it in the tons of pages that you now have created such as "home page for year 2017" or something like that. This is necessary because using this method will import all your pages as well and they will join or even duplicate any that are already in your template.
Open your template course and click settings.
On the right margin click Import Content into this Course.
Content Type: Copy a Canvas Course
Select a Course: Select the course from this last year in which you want to import. You will have to do this to as many course that you wish to import one at a time.
Content: Select All content. You usually check the Select specific content throughout the year.
Options: You can shift dates or remove dates. I would choose remove dates as this will eliminate assignment due dates. I have seen conflicts in setting new dates if the old dates are not removed.
Click Import.
This process should take quite some time depending on how much content you have.
The final step, which I usually wait for until I am ready to import at the start of the new year, is to delete any module that has an old date next to it as the years go by. These modules with old dates can remain it is just that when your template course gets rather large it take forever for it open or even load when you want to look through it for items throughout the following year.
This entire process should have taken you less time than it did to read through this.
Below is a quick step by step, in case your forgot, way to move all your course content into your template for easy access and editing for this fall. Access may not be halted but there is always a chance and I don't want to take that chance. These steps are very easy and take no time at all to complete. Also, if you do not have a "template" you can email the help desk and they will make one up for you with the title that you request. They will not touch "template" titled courses when they archive.
This procedure has not changed. I am just listing it step by step for anyone not remembering how to pull this off.
Start in your course, from this past year, and edit each module title by adding the year of your choice. You may want to add 2016-2017 or what ever you will recognize as coming from last year's course when it gets imported to your template as they will be added to the template and not be replacing any modules. You will want to do this to each module. Also, if you like your home page, edit that page's title (by clicking edit on the page) in such a way that you will recognize it in the tons of pages that you now have created such as "home page for year 2017" or something like that. This is necessary because using this method will import all your pages as well and they will join or even duplicate any that are already in your template.
Open your template course and click settings.
On the right margin click Import Content into this Course.
Content Type: Copy a Canvas Course
Select a Course: Select the course from this last year in which you want to import. You will have to do this to as many course that you wish to import one at a time.
Content: Select All content. You usually check the Select specific content throughout the year.
Options: You can shift dates or remove dates. I would choose remove dates as this will eliminate assignment due dates. I have seen conflicts in setting new dates if the old dates are not removed.
Click Import.
This process should take quite some time depending on how much content you have.
The final step, which I usually wait for until I am ready to import at the start of the new year, is to delete any module that has an old date next to it as the years go by. These modules with old dates can remain it is just that when your template course gets rather large it take forever for it open or even load when you want to look through it for items throughout the following year.
This entire process should have taken you less time than it did to read through this.
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