Copying, Exporting and Importing Course Content

Use the copy, export and import features in UB Learns to copy content between courses or create content backups.

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Copying Course Content Between Courses

You must have the role of Instructor or Course Owner in both courses to be able to copy content between courses.

In UB Learns, instructors start in the destination course (e.g., a current semester's course) and pull content from the source course (e.g., a previous semester's course).

Copy Components from Another Course copies course content only. It does not copy student enrollments or submissions.

  1. Go to your destination course.
  2. On the navbar, click Instructor Only and select Copy Course.
  3. Click Copy Components from Another Course.
  4.  Click Search for Course.
  5. Enter a source course's name or course ID in the search field and click Search.
    •  Clicking Search without entering anything in the search field will display a list of all your courses.
  6. Click the radio button to the left of the source course you want to copy to your destination course.
  7. Click Add Selected.
  8. At the bottom of the page, click Copy All Components (or you can copy a subset of the course by clicking Select Components).
  9.  Click View Content or Review and Manage Dates when UB Learns has finished copying the content.

Exporting Course Content

You must have the role of Instructor or Course Owner to be able to export course content.

Export as Brightspace Package exports course content only. It does not export student enrollments or submissions.

  1. On the navbar, click Instructor Only and select Copy Course.
  2. Click Export as Brightspace Package.
  3. Click Start.
  4. Click Select All Components.
  5. Click Continue.
  6. Click Include course files in the export package under Additional Components to Export.
  7. Click Export.
  8. When the export is finished, a red dot will display on the Updates icon (the bell icon at the top of the page). Click the Updates icon and click Export finished.
  9. Download the export ZIP file. The file must remain in the ZIP format in order to import the content at a later date.

Importing Course Content From a ZIP File

  1. On the navbar, click Instructor Only and select Copy Course.
  2. Click Import Components.
  3. Click Start.
  4. Locate the ZIP file you want to import.
  5. Choose whether to Import All Components or Select Components and then follow the prompts.
  6. Click Review and Manage Dates to review and manage course dates.

Additional Content and Organization Resources

Copy course components (Brightspace)
Developing Accessible Content (Brightspace)
Improve the accessibility of course content using Anthology Ally (Brightspace)
SUNY OSCQR Standard #16 - Creating an easy to navigate course
SUNY OSCQR Content & Activities Standards
SUNY OSCQR Design & Layout Standards