If you’re re-using course materials from a previous term, the easiest way to get the content and activities from an old course into a new one is to copy the course. To copy a course, go into the old course (the one with the materials you want to copy), and click the PACKAGES & UTILITIES heading in the Control Panel menu. Follow these steps to copy an old course into a new course: 1. Under the Packages and Utilities heading,...
Deleting content from your course can be a quick process relative to deleting one item at a time. This can be useful if you accidentally import the incorrect course content into your upcoming course. Or maybe you wish to clear out a specific section of your course to revamp it’s contents. PLEASE NOTE: This action can not be undone. Once content is deleted, there’s no getting it back! So please be sure you want to remove the content you’ve selected....
When teaching multiple sections of the same course, you may find that you’ve added a significant amount of content to one section that you’d also like added to the other. Fortunately, Blackboard makes it fairly easy to copy content from one course to another. If you’re looking to copy a whole menu item, you could use the COURSE COPY tool to copy your content. But if you’re looking to move a folder or item that’s inside a menu item, there’s...
If you’d like to merge sections of a course, Contact the Instructional Design Studio for assistance....
Archives and exports provide a way for you to easily re-use all content developed for a previous term’s course site. When you export or archive a course, you download a zip file that’s not particularly useful outside of Knowledge. To recover the content in that zip, you’ll need to import it into a course site. This might be a current, official course site with students loaded or, if you’d prefer, you can contact the Instructional Design Studio (ids@udmercy.edu; 313-578-0580) to have a development space set up on Knowledge. Once you have a course site selected, the steps involved in loading an archive into a course site are fairly simple …...
