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Copy a Blackboard Course or Specific Course Content

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Warning
You may copy from an Original Course into Ultra, but be aware that not all course content will convert. Before copying content from an Original Course into Ultra, please review the "Tips for Converting to Ultra" presentation.

Log into Blackboard and navigate to your Courses page.
Find the destination course and, if necessary, make it unavailable/private. If the course is available, enrolled students will receive an email notification that content has been added to the course and, if any assignments from the source course had due dates, a notification that the assignments are all past due. To avoid confusion, make sure the destination course is unavailable.

Unavailable courses are indicated by a lock below the course.

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If you don’t see the lock, you can select the More Options button to the right of the course and select Make Course Private, OR you can go into the course and select the Make Course Private.
Next, open the course which you want to copy materials into.
Navigate to the area of the course you want to add content to and select the Add Content button.
Choose Copy Content from the menu
Check the box to the right of the course you want to copy content from to copy the entire course or
Select the Content you want to copy.
1. If copying the entire course, click Select next to the course name to ensure that all of your content safely makes it to the Destination Course.
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  Student-submitted work will never be copied over, with the exception of the Discussion board.
2. If copying select content or files, choose the course name and select the individual folders or content items you want to copy.
Select the File Attachment settings:
1. Copy links to Course Files: This is useful if you are copying from a shared template that may be updated mid-semester. If the files are overwritten in the original template, they will automatically update in all courses copied with this setting.
2. Copy links and copies of the content: This is the default and recommended option for most course copy requests. This will ensure that the Destination Course receives its own copies of the selected content for your current students to access, rather than erroneously linking them back to the Source Course.
3. Copy links and copies of the content (include entire course home folder)
Do notinclude enrollments in the Copy.
ClickSubmitto initiate the Copy. It will take a few minutes to run and you will receive an automated email once complete.