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There are two approaches to copying content within Brightspace.

  • Quick & Internal: Quick, but for complex sites, it can result in broken links between tools

  • Comprehensive & File-based: Extra steps, all content works

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Comprehensive & File-based

Copying content from one site to another can be facilitated through the Import/Export/Copy Components tool options in Brightspace.

If you have a Brightspace course created with a number of internal links (e.g. your content page has a link to a Checklist or Survey or Assignment or Quiz or other Brightspace content object) you will want to follow the steps in this video by exporting a course package and importing into the new site. This will require you to start in the site where the content is housed (e.g. a reference site or last year’s site) and then import into the new, empty site. Remember to always “Include files” to ensure the best possible experience.

Moving course content from one site to another is quick and painless in Brightspace. It is managed entirely within the Import/Export/Copy Components tool found in Course Admin and can be performed by anyone with Instructor-level access.

It is also possible to export and compress entire site contents as files or import from other sources.

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Copy components to the destination site

While working in the new or upcoming course site:

  1. Go to Course Tools [1] → Course Admin [2] → Import/Export/Copy Components.

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  2. Choose Copy Components from another Org Unit then Search for offering.

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  3. Search for the exact name of the originating site. Pay close attention to the “Offering Name” and “Semester”, especially if it is a migrated site or only uses the course code.

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  4. Choose between the options Copy All Components or Select Components. The latter will allow you to find specific items from the original site (e.g. a single quiz).

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  5. You will be presented with options to Offset Dates at this time, which may be useful in certain situations.

  6. The process may take a minute or two for a large site.

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File-based export and import

Copying content from one site to another can also be facilitated by the importing and exporting. This method provides a more thorough breakdown of component files and an alternative should the results of the previously described Copy Components from another Org Unit be unsatisfactory.

External Brightspace course content and certain other learning material file types can also be added to a Brock Brightspace site in this way.

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titleInstructions for importing to a new site.

  1. In the destination course site, Select Course Tools in the navigation bar, choose Course Admin, and then select Import/Export/Copy Components.

  2. Scroll down and select Import Components. You can then choose whether to add components from the Learning Object Repository on Brightspace or from a course package (usually a .zip file on your device).

  3. Click Start.

  4. Select the file to upload and import. Find the exported Zip from the previous site.

  5. Choose either Import All Components to import all file content or choose Advanced Options to choose specific components.

    • If you selected Advanced Options, choose the components you want to import by checking the relevant boxes and then select Continue twice.

  6. Once your content has imported, you can select View Content to see the items, import another course package using the Import Another Package button, or review and manage course dates by clicking Review and Manage Dates.

Note on duplicate items and file

  • If you import certain course components with names that already exist in the coursea site, or you the import multiple components with the same name, includes items with duplicate names, those will appear but these components are not overwritten. For example, if your course contains a discussion topic called “Exam Review” and you import a course package that contains a discussion topic called “Exam Review”, your course will contain two separate discussion topics called “Exam Review”.If you select Advanced Options in step 5, you can change this default setting to overwrite the existing file by scrolling down to all appear and will not be overwritten.

  • Advanced Options (in step 5) will offer the choice to change this behaviour and overwrite existing files: find the “When an existing file is encountered” setting and selecting choose the “Overwrite the existing file” button, then clicking click Continue.

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want a quicker, more efficient way that copies content or other tools in Brightspace (and you don’t have a number of links between tools), the video below is a quick way to get content from one site to another. Note that with this process you start in the new, empty site rather than the one with all the content. You must have instructor access in the site you are importing from in order to have access to the content in that site. This might be a better option for moving material migrated from Sakai into your Brightspace site, noting that a commitment to editing and organization is still required when working with migrated content from Sakai.

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If you are wanting to migrate Question Pools from Sakai into the Brightspace Question Library, please contact edtech@brocku.ca for assistance. are wanting to migrate Question Pools from Sakai into the Brightspace Question Library, please contact edtech@brocku.ca for assistance.

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