Please see the guidance available from the Blackboard Help website. To carry out a Course Copy you need to be attached to both the source course and the destination course.
Important Notes
- Panopto recordings
If you have already performed a full course copy, which will have copied over the links to recordings into your new module run, then you will need to;- Copy the recordings to the new module run in the Panopto cloud - guidance
- Create new links in your new module run to the copied recordings - guidance
This may not be obvious to you because the links will work for you, if you are enrolled on both the old and new module runs (because you have the relevant permissions to view Panopto content on both module runs). However, for students on the new module run, they will be denied access to the recordings and will receive an automated email to this effect. Please refer to the Blackboard Guidance on Link to Panopto recordings from Blackboard for the instructions on how to set up new links.
- Online Assessment
We strongly advise you NOT to include the Grade Centre in your Course Copy as this can potentially duplicate ISIS fed assignments and cause confusion for students and staff. If the work item is correctly set up on the module run in ISIS, it will automatically feed into Blackboard at the appropriate time. If you are unsure whether this has been set up, please check with your School Student Programme and Support (SPS) team. - iSpring / Adobe Presenter / Xerte content
If you have content that was created with one of these tools, please use the option ‘Copy all course content (recommended for users of iSpring / Adobe Presenter / Xerte applications’. This will ensure that any files not directly linked to from the Blackboard course are included in the copy. - Taught at site
We advise you NOT to include the ‘Settings’ option when copying as this will update the taught at site to be the same as the course you’ve copied from. - Default template content
Module run Blackboard courses will have default content from College templates which are reviewed and updated annually. If you are copying over all the content from your source course, please remove any duplicated or outdated content after the copy process, to ensure students are seeing only the latest. For example, default information and advice for students in the Assessment and Resit Materials content areas may be updated from one year to the next in line with any regulatory changes. - Links to Teams
If the course you have copied from contains a ‘Go to Teams’ link, this will link to the Teams class for the ‘copied from’ course and not the ‘copied into’ course. In the ‘copied into’ course, you will need to delete the ‘Go to Teams’ link from the course menu. If you want to have a Teams class for the ‘copied into’ course, you will need to initiate this in the usual way via the MS Teams tool under Course tools.