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There are two approaches to copying content within Brightspace.
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.
Export Steps
Instructions for exporting from an existing site.
Access the course site from which you wish to export content.
Select Course Tools in the navigation bar, choose Course Admin, and then select Import/Export/Copy Components.
Choose the Export as Brightspace Package radio button and then click the Start button.
On the Select Course Material page, choose the pieces of the course to be exported (Select All Components for everything or pick specific items by checking their respective boxes. When finished, click Continue.
On the Confirm Components to Export page, review the items to be exported. Select Include course files in the export package to include any course files in the export package you are creating.
Click Export to begin the export process. A page indicating that the export has started will appear. Click the Done button to exit the page.
Once it finishes you will receive an Update Alert notification (an orange dot will appear on the bell icon near the top right of the screen). Click on the Update Alert notification and select the Export finished notification.
On the Export Summary page, click the blue Click here to download the export Zip package link to download the exported package to your device.
Once you have downloaded the file, click Done. The file you downloaded can now be imported into a different course page using the steps in the import section above.
Import Steps
Instructions for importing to a new site.
In the destination course site, Select Course Tools in the navigation bar, choose Course Admin, and then select Import/Export/Copy Components.
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).
Click Start.
Select the file to upload and import. Find the exported Zip from the previous site.
Choose either Import All Components to import all file content or choose Advanced Options to choose specific components.
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 course components with names that already exist in the course, or you import multiple components with the same name, duplicate names 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 the “When an existing file is encountered” setting and selecting the “Overwrite the existing file” button, then clicking Continue.
Quick & Internal
If however, you 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.
