Table of Contents
- Copy a Canvas Course (or Content from a Canvas Course)
- Importing a Question Bank from Moodle
What Is It?
Instructors can import question banks from other Canvas courses, Moodle, .zip files, and a few other options.
This article will cover importing from Canvas and Moodle courses
Who Can Use It?
Instructors using Canvas
Where Can I Access It?
Step 1: Navigate to the course you wish to import to in Canvas
From the Canvas course, locate the Settings tab on the left-hand navigation bar
Step 2: On the right-hand side of the settings screen, locate the Import/Export Options
Step 3: Click Import Course Content
Copy A Canvas Course (or Content from a Canvas Course)
Step 1: From the Content Type drop-down menu, select Copy a Canvas Course
Step 2: From here, you can now enter the Course Name of the course you are trying to copy from.
Note: As you type, Canvas will show you courses in a drop-down that a similar to what you are typing
Note: Tick the Include completed courses check box to include completed courses in your search
Step 3: Select the correct course, then select if you want All content or to Select specific content
Note: Selecting All content will import ALL content including course settings, modules, quizzes, discussions, etc.
Step 4: Selecting Adjust event and due dates next to Options, will let you either Shift the Beginning and End date to new dates or you have the option the Remove the dates all-together
Importing All Content
Step 1: If you decide to import All Content, after clicking Import, the page will immediately queue the import and then will start processing it
Note: When Importing, make sure to have any external tools configured, but the import will continue as normal 
Step 2: You will know the import has completed with no issues when you see the green completed box
Step 3: Browse your course to view the imported content
Importing specific content
Step 1: After selecting Select specific content and clicking Import, the import will be waiting under Current Jobs
Note: When Importing, make sure to have any external tools configured, but the import will continue as normal
Step 2: Click Select Content
Step 3: Click the arrow to view the content within each section, or check the box to include all the content from that section
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Step 4: Click Select Content, the content will then begin importing
Step 5: You will know the import has completed with no issues when you see the green completed box
Step 6: Browse your course to view the imported content
Importing a Question Bank from Moodle
Step 1: Navigate to the Import Content page.
Step 2: From the Content Type drop-down menu, select Moodle 1.9/2.x
Step 3: Navigate to the course in Moodle you wish to import a question bank from
Step 4: Click the More drop down menu, the click Course reuse
Step 5: From the next page select the drop down on the top left, usually says Import by default. Select Backup
Step 6: Make sure the only box ticked is Include question bank
Step 7: Include PLD Data if you needed, then click Next
Step 8: Decide what content to include, under Select you can choose All or None instead of clicking through all the content
Step 9: After selecting the content you want to include, click Next
Step 10: Review the backups settings, you can also name the file for the backup or leave it as the default
Step 11: Click Perfrom Backup, to start the the backup. Initially the backup will be pending but will start after a little time
Step 12: After the backup has finished, the backup file is ready to download
Step 13: Click Continue to go to the backups page
Step 14: From the backups page navigate to User private backup area
Step 15: Click Download on the backup you want to import to Canvas
Step 16: The backup will be a .mbz file
Step 17: Back on the Canvas import page, from Source click Choose File, and select the .mbz file you just downloaded and click Open
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Step 18: From here you can follow either the instuctions for Importing all content or Importing specific content