{"id":60429,"date":"2017-11-27T07:25:50","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T13:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/?p=60429"},"modified":"2017-11-27T07:26:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T13:26:14","slug":"copying-and-cleaning-content-into-your-new-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/instructional\/2017\/11\/27\/copying-and-cleaning-content-into-your-new-course\/","title":{"rendered":"Copying and Cleaning Content into your New Course"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Now that Winter 2018 and Spring 2018 course requests<\/a> are available, you are likely looking to populate your new courses with materials you have already created and compiled. The Copy Components<\/strong> feature in D2L allows instructors to replicate the course components from one course offering to another. These include all commonly used components such as — news, content, files, gradebook structure, quizzes\/question library, discussion group structure, and more. You can use this tool to easily re-use\u00a0relevant content from one D2L course offering to another.<\/p>\n

For written instructions<\/strong> to help copy, please visit the D2L Copy Components documentation<\/a> we have available. Alternately, you can also watch<\/strong> a video walkthrough<\/a> of the process.<\/p>\n

After copying materials into your new course, you may be interested in cleaning up some unnecessary things<\/strong>.\u00a0 Some\u00a0areas have a habit of bulking up over time, and we recommend checking them for unused items.<\/p>\n

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  1. Content, Dropbox, Grades, and Discussions<\/strong>\u00a0areas are\u00a0things you probably\u00a0clean up every semester.<\/li>\n
  2. The\u00a0Groups<\/strong>\u00a0tool will transfer over course sections from previous semesters.\u00a0 Clean out Groups from previous years to make your relevant Groups easier to find.<\/li>\n
  3. News<\/strong> items often include specific dates, time sensitive information, or mention of Content items that may or may not be around anymore.\u00a0 Keep the ones that are still relevant, but delete the expired ones that you don’t intend on reworking each semester.<\/li>\n
  4. In the Quizzes area, the Question Library<\/strong> is a great resource to house questions you think you might use again in the future. It is also a chronic hiding place of questions\u00a0instructors deemed unsuitable for use in their classes.<\/li>\n
  5. It is not uncommon for Instructors to build Surveys<\/strong>\u00a0for a specific purpose, and only use them one semester.<\/li>\n
  6. The\u00a0Manage Files<\/strong>\u00a0area houses everything you have ever uploaded to content.\u00a0 If there are old documents, PDFs, PowerPoints that you don’t need you can remove them by going through the Manage Files area.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If you have any questions regarding the copy components tool or would like assistance cleaning up your course, please contact UW-W D2L Support<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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