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Speaker: OTAN, Outreach and Technical Assistance Network.

Dana Thompson: My name is Dana Thompson. I'm going to be your webinar facilitator today, host, whatever we call them now. So I've been using, thank you, I've been using Canvas for a long time now. Well, over 10 years. And the ability to be able to take your content from either one semester or one year and repurpose it for the next time that you're teaching that course is really, really helpful.

And so we're going to talk about some best practices in doing that today. And then some of the easiest ways to get content moved over. So one of the things that I'd really-- and I know that that was my email ding. Hopefully it's not going to become annoying. Let me know if it does.

But when we're updating content in Canvas, one of the things that we really need to take into consideration is that our Canvas shell is documentation for our students, as well as for our accrediting organizations.

So when you're using Canvas to deliver content, and you are going to be delivering that same content to a new set of students or another year, you don't want to make the changes in the original course because then you're changing your documentation after the course is done.

And that can negatively impact, if a student-- because most organizations allow their students, even though the course isn't active, the student can still log in and access the resources and assignments and instructor feedback. And if you start changing that, then it doesn't jive with what they thought it will break that assignment feedback or documentation.

And then with our accrediting organizations, we want to make sure that what we're reporting to them is accurate and true. So if you go in and modify an old course so that you can teach it to your new students, that actually breaks that documentation trail as well.

So the biggest thing that you can remember when you're using content in Canvas and you're repurposing it for a new shell or a new course or new students, you want to copy that information over first, and then make all of your changes in the new shell rather than changing the old content. You want to keep that as intact as possible.

So I'm going to jump over here into a Canvas course. And you can see that this is an intro to culinary arts course. And this is a demo. So it's not complete. You probably have way more content in yours. But you can see that I've got several modules, one where this might be a module that I will use for all my courses because it's an introduction for students in using Canvas.

And so the beauty is, is I can create this once, and then I can use that module in every course that I teach even if it's not the same content that's in this course. And then specific to this course, I have my week 1 module and assignments and all of that. And I have my week 2 module. So this course is built on weeks and so on and so forth.

Now again, it's a demo course. I only have three weeks in here. But you can see down here now I also have a training resources module that is not published because these are things that I have found I would use when creating content or activities for my students. And course checklists to make sure that I have everything that I need as I'm going through. And so I want this accessible to me, but not my students.

So I brought it into my Canvas course. And I've unpublished the module. So my students can't see it. But I still have access to this. And I can copy this over to any course that I want because it's not course-specific. And then I also have some module templates that I've created, that if I wanted to create a whole group rotation module, I don't have to recreate that every time because I have this template where these are activities on a page.

So I'll have my teacher-led learning. And maybe this is where I'm going to be doing direct instruction. But for my students who are absent, I want them to be able to get that content. And whether it's a YouTube video that has the same content, or I create an instructional video in Studio or in YouTube and upload it, I have that here.

And then I curate some online learning activities. And then there's a collaborative offline activity where they are not plugged in. But instead of creating this structure every single time I want to use it, I create the module once as a template, and then I copy that entire module, and then I'll plug-in the things for that activity.

If you have an assignment in an unpublished module with a due date, it does still appear on the students calendars, but it's going to be very confusing for them because if you're using modules to deliver your content to your students and you have an assignment that's published with the due date, they can't access it unless it's in a module.

So they'll see this on their calendar. They'll see it in their grades view, but when they try to open up the assignment to work on it, more times than not it will tell them that they don't have access to that. And it counts towards their final grade depending on how it's set up. And they don't have access to it. So if you have an assignment that is not in a module, don't publish it, then it won't show on their calendar and it won't show in their grades view.

So that is a good point, in that if I were going to use this module or this course to copy over for my new upcoming semester, everything in here is published because the students are working on this right now. And again, I am not going to unpublish anything because then that will confuse my current students.

So if I wanted to use this but not have it be published yet in my new course, I would copy everything over first and then in the new course, go in and unpublish it because it usually copies over in the status that it is in the original course. Awesome.

So you can see that down here I do have-- and so your question goes to the here's assignment that's in a module that is not published. But the assignment is published. Students will see that, but not be able to access it. So in this case, yes, I would probably unpublish that. Again, this is a demo course. So I don't have students in here. But, yes, you're right. But so I've got several templates set up that I can use.

Now, one of the things that you can consider is if this is a course where you're going to be using all of these types of activities, these blended learning models, then go ahead and bring in those templates. But you don't have to bring everything into your course because then it gets overwhelming sometimes.

So one of the really great features of Canvas, if I come back out here to my dashboard, you probably have what's called a sandbox course. So down here is my sandbox course. And in this sandbox course, what a sandbox means is it's a course where you can play and create things. Students are not in your sandbox course. So it will never confuse them.

So even if you have a current course that you're working on in a current semester and you want to add something, so many times in order to make sure that it works first before confusing students, I suggest creating it in your sandbox course. Once you've got it all done, then copying it over in the finished version into the current course that you are working in and that your students are working in.

So the sandbox course is a great feature because you can just play. And you'll see in here in my sandbox course, I have a lot of things in here. And it's not course-specific. I'm going to collapse my modules. So I do have my week 1, week 2, and week 3 that were in my intro to culinary arts course.

But I also have a module on creative effective discussions. And what's the favorite EdTech tool? I have all of these different modules that I'm creating, I'm building, I'm playing. And then once I've got it to where I want it for my students, then I'll copy that over.

And I find that to be very helpful because then you're not afraid of doing something that's going to accidentally get published and your students are going to see it and then confuse them. They don't see it until it's in its final version.

So having that sandbox course is a big help. But coming back out here to my dashboard, so here's the course that I'm working in currently. And I'm teaching intro to culinary arts, say, in the fall semester.

And I'm going to have a new course for semester 2. But it's going to be a new set of students. And so I want to use 99% maybe of the content that I already created last semester. I'm going to repurpose that in my updating culinary arts course.

Now this course is not published. So even if students are enrolled in it, they will not see this course until I actually click this Publish button. And then they will see the items that I have published inside of the course. They will be able to see and have access too.

So when I come into my culinary arts for my semester 2, this is a course that was created using a template from my organization. So it has some items in it that I can choose to use or not. Your organization may not have a template for new courses. And so it would be completely empty.

But my organization, they've created a template for my Welcome page so that it's easy for me to come in and update my page. If I come over here on this new course that I've done nothing to yet, you can see that I do have some template modules in here that I can choose to use or not.

Since I already have a lot of this stuff in my current course that I'm going to now repurpose into this new course, I'm going to go ahead and clean this up a little bit so that it doesn't confuse me. So I'm going to come over here and delete these modules because I've already done the work in the other course. And I don't need them again.

And again, you might have a course that is created for you that is completely empty. And you don't need to do these steps. But organizations do have the ability to create templates for new courses, in which case you might have items in there. So I'm going to go ahead and just delete.

The nice thing about working from modules, is it deletes it from the modules. But it's not necessarily deleting it from my course. So if I want to use it again, I can find those in either my pages index page, my assignments index page. So I'm just removing it from the main area that I'm going to control my students access. And I want to start with everything clean.

So now I have nothing in my modules. And if I come down here to look at my individual pages, you can see that it has a Home page that was brought over with the template. And I can leave that or I can say, nope, I'm going to make my own Home page.

So when I come in to edit, nope, it's not an edit. It's going to be in my pages list. So I'm going to go back and click on Pages again because I want to see all my pages. So you can see all of the pages that I just deleted from my modules still live in my course. So I can use them again if I want to. But I'm going to go ahead and I might not be able to do this. I'm going to remove this as a front page. So now I don't have a front page.

And I did that on purpose so that I can create my custom Home page for my new course. Any questions so far? If your organization doesn't have a template set up for new courses, this is most likely what you're going to see when you get into your Canvas shell. Nothing. And no modules, nothing like that.

So when I'm looking at this empty course and what I want to do is pull in content from the course that I'm currently teaching, I'm going to pull that content in first. And then I'm going to modify it so that it has updated due dates and things that-- maybe I want to modify some of the assignments. Anything, any changes that I want to do, I will do in this new course after I've brought that content in.

So there's a couple of things to keep in mind. If you want to bring in the entire course, it's a carbon copy. You're going to teach 99% of the same stuff. And you're just going to bring it all in at once. The easiest way to do that is to come over here and import existing content.

And you can see this is the template that was brought in by my Canvas admin when this course was created that I removed. But so now I'm going to go and I'm going to select a Canvas course that I have access to. So the one that I'm teaching this semester. And then I'm going to do the course name.

Now this is my culinary arts. And it's like a search engine. So it's going to search for any course that I have access to or has the title culinary arts. And you can see I have different sections or different semesters that I've taught it.

This culinary arts semester 2, is the new one that I'm currently in right now. So I'm not going to pull in this course because there's nothing in it that I need. But this one up here is going to be the one that I'm going to pull the content in. So your naming convention really does matter. So maybe putting a year on the end.

And if you're creating your own Canvas courses, it's not connected to a student information system. Really think about your naming convention so that it's easy to find it. Because this if I didn't really know or if I had a lot more, it would be confusing to know which one I wanted to pull in.

So what I'm going to do-- actually before I do this, this is double check that I have the right one. So I'm going to go back to my dashboard. This is the one that I want to pull in. And here's a trick. I love this trick. So I'm going to click on this course. And you can see up here, it has a URL.

And this number right here, sometimes it's three numbers, sometimes it's four numbers, sometimes it's six numbers, but this is your unique course ID. So I can actually search for the course that I want. And to ensure that I get the right content from the correct course, I'm going to search by this unique ID instead of the name.

Because I had so many that I was teaching that was intro to culinary. And if I pulled in the wrong one, it might not be the content that I want. So I'm going to remember the number 548. That's my unique ID for the course that I want to copy. So I'm going to come back to my dashboard. I'm going to go back into my semester 2, unpublished shell. And I'm going to come back here to import existing content.

And I'm still going to search for that Canvas course that I'm a teacher in. But instead of the course name and now I've already forgotten the number 548, there it is, so now it's only giving me the course that has that unique ID. And I don't have to try and figure out if it's the right course or the wrong course. So remember that.

So when I choose that, and you can see up here, 871 is the number for this new course. So that's the unique ID for this new course. So I'm going to pull in the content from the old course. I have options. I can either pull in everything. I want everything to come in because I'm just going to carbon copy it, update the due dates and I'm good to go.

So you would just pull in everything. And that will also pull in your course settings, your syllabus, if you're using your syllabus, any of your modules, assignments, quizzes, and your quiz banks or question banks. So all of these items will be pulled in. Or if you know you want to use most of the content but maybe not all of it, you can select specific content.

At this point, you would have to go through the next few steps to get to the point where you can pull in the specific content. So I'm going to show you how to do that. But if you pull in all content, it's just going to pull in everything. This is also really important. If you are using new quizzes, you're going to import existing quizzes as new quizzes.

This will also import classic quizzes and convert them in the import into a new quiz. So if you're someone who is using classic quizzes and you want those to automatically convert over to a new quiz, this is a great thing to check. If you're not sure, don't check it. It'll just pull everything in the format that it's already in.

And then this is one that I always do because I find that it's easier to put in new due dates rather than try and shift due dates. Because then it gets very confusing. So I'm actually going to adjust my events and due dates and I'm going to remove. So everything's going to come in with no due date, and I'll be able to go in and put in the due date that I want for the new class.

If you pull it in without this date adjustment, then it pulls it in with the current due date. And if you forget to unpublish it like Tanya said, then it can be very confusing for your students because it has a due date of before the class started. So I always use caution and remove those due dates. And Tanya, you have a question?

Tanya Cobb: Yes, can you hear me OK?

Dana Thompson: Yes.

Tanya Cobb: Hi, so how does the due date thing connect to under content, where it has all content and it says calendar events? So if you had checked all content which includes calendar events, how would that impact the adjust events and due dates? Do you understand the question?

Dana Thompson: Yeah.

Tanya Cobb: So you can tell I've had a lot of trouble with this part.

Dana Thompson: So the due dates, they are calendar events, but they're controlled through the assignment settings or the discussion settings or the quiz settings. If you pull in all content and adjust events and due dates and remove dates, it will remove all of those dates.

Now if you put in there back to school night or CTE conference or something that is not tied to an assignment or a discussion or a quiz, it's just a calendar event, I believe it will pull that in as a calendar event on the current date. So it would be prior to this course happening.

That's actually a new feature. If you remove all due dates it may even remove those calendar events. But I know--

Tanya Cobb: Thank you.

Dana Thompson: --that with anything that has a due date, it keeps the item but it removes the due date.

Tanya Cobb: Got it. Thank you.

Dana Thompson: You're welcome. So I'm going to select specific content so that you can see this process. If I had selected all content, I would click on Import and it would do its thing.

But since I have selected specific content-- and this is also very important. I know I've had teachers before where they have their content. They copy it over to their class. They make their changes. And then they realized that they forgot something or something didn't transfer right. So they tried transferring it again. And they do all content every time.

Just remember that if you import the same course content more than once, it's going to overwrite anything that you've made changes to. So after we do this, I'm going to show you another way to copy content. But keep that in mind. It's just like doing a save. And it's going to overwrite anything that was there before. But I'm going to select specific content. So when I click on Import, now I have the ability to come in and say, what do I want to import?

And so I do want to import my course settings. I do want to import my syllabus. But I don't want to import all of those modules because for this course I just want my overview, my week 1, my week 2, and my week 3. Because I have these things in my sandbox, I don't want them in this course also until I'm ready to use them.

So I'm not going to import all of these other modules. I'm just going to import these first four modules for my students. Now, if an assignment is in one of these modules that I'm importing, it's going to import as well. So I don't need to worry about assignments, quizzes, or question banks because it will automatically import if it lies within this module that I'm importing.

So I can come in here and do specific ones if I wanted to, but I don't have to. But say I do want to pull in every rubric even if it's not attached to an assignment and I want to pull in all my learning outcomes because I don't want it to go in there and do them all again, so I'm going to pull in those as well.

So it's really easy to customize here what you want to pull in if you already know what you want to use. If you're not sure and you just want to be able to do that as you're working through it, just pull in all your content. You can remove things that you don't need. And so I'm going to select content. And you can see that it's queued.

And it usually takes a minute for it to copy over. And then it's going to let me know if it's successful or if I have any issues. Now issues are common. So don't get nervous or anxious if you see that you have warnings or issues.

Because if you're using say, an API or an LTI like Google Workspace, so you are creating things in Google Docs and Google Slides and you're using the Google tool, the Google plugin to connect things from your drive into Canvas, you're going to have to redo every single one of those in the new course. Because the way Google works is it's tying it to this unique identifiers.

So when you copy it into another course without a unique identifier, you need to redo those. If you're using something like Studio, many times I say always go and double check your videos to make sure that they copied over correctly.

So all of the Canvas native things will probably copy over seamlessly. But it's when you're starting to pull in these EdTech tools like EdPuzzle or Quizizz or flashcards, online flashcards, all of those tools, you're going to want to double check those. And Canvas usually is pretty good about picking up warnings. I didn't get any warnings, so it shows that all of my content imported correctly.

So I'm going to come here into modules. And you'll see I now have Canvas overview and resources. I have my week 1 ready to go, but no due dates. I don't have any due dates. But because in my original course I had set up all of my prerequisites and requirements for the module, I don't have to do those again either. So it really saves you time.

And then here on week 2, that got imported correctly. And week 3 was imported correctly, but then nothing else. So it only imported what I told it to. So that is the import content. Now if I come back to my home screen, that's where I found that button, it's right here, you can also get to that area down in your settings for your course in import course content here. And it would just take you to the same place.

But you can see that I've imported two imports. One was the template that was done when the course was created. And then this one, my current semester that I've just imported the content that I want to use all at once. And now I can go in and start making my changes specific to this course. Any questions so far?

Please do use the chat if you have questions or grab the mic. So we stripped all of the dates. And I want to make sure that my students have due dates. Due dates are best practice because it helps your students know what's expected. It helps them plan their time and their activity.

And it also helps communicate and document so that if there's any questioning later, you can always say, well, the assignment had a due date. If you didn't see it, it's probably because you weren't in there. So you want to make sure that-- and due dates are great. So if I come in here to the assignment, this individual assignment, the students after working through the module, they're to create a kitchen safety plan.

So right now it shows that it's due for everyone, but there's not a due date. And so the students will see it in their module list. They'll see it in their grades list. If I view this as a student, you can see it's unavailable because I haven't completed the prerequisites for it above, which is another module control that I'll show you.

But you can see here in the grades that I can see it. Here's that individual safety plan. But I don't know when it's due. It's not the first thing in the list. So I don't know if it's due now or if it's due later. There's just a lot of vagueness there. So we want to give our students the most information to be successful that we can. So I'm going to come back to my modules and go back to that assignment.

And we're going to go ahead and you can do this one by one, which is a pain. I can come in here and click on Edit. I can scroll down to my assigned to and give it a due date here and do that one by one. But if you're bringing in a lot of content, this takes a lot of time. So there's other ways that you can do mass due date assignments.

I'm just going to put a due date here for those of you-- so say the semester starts, we're going to say the semester starts on the 20th. And so this is their first assignment that I want them to do. We're going to spend this week talking about kitchen safety. So I'm going to have this assignment due on Wednesday the following week. And I'm going to give them until midnight to turn that in before it is marked as late.

But if I want to control even further when they see it and when they can turn it into before it becomes locked, I can control those with the available from and available until dates. But if I just want them to know that this is due on the 29th and as long as you've done the prerequisite ahead of it, you can access it, you can turn it in early, I'm not going to control it even further, the only thing you need is the due date.

So that when I click on Save, this now has a due date listed so that students can see. And if I come in here to my module view as a student, you can see that even though I don't have access to it yet because I haven't done the prerequisites, I at least can see when it's due.

And when I come into my grades as a student, it's now up here at the top. Because once you put in due dates, it will list your students' assignments in order of due date. Or as a student, I can change it to assignment groups module or a name, but the default is to list it by the due date. So now they can budget their time better.

And as a student if I come home and I go to my course calendar, I can now see that I have an assignment due on the 29th. So just by putting that due date in one place, it's showing up in several places. And if I go back into the course and come home, you can see it's also on my to do list as an upcoming assignment due on January 29.

So that due date is one of the things that I highly recommend you put on your assignments. You can also put them on discussions and on quizzes. Very, very helpful for our students.

But we have, say, 10 modules. And each module has at least one assignment if not two or three. And we stripped all of the due dates off. How can we go in now and do a mass assignment date set? So you don't have to do one at a time.

There's a couple of ways to do this. And one of the ways is by actually going into the course calendar. So I'm going to go over here into the course calendar. And you can see I have a bunch of calendars because I've got my personal one and then I have all of my courses. But the culinary arts course because I clicked on that link via the course calendar, it's only showing me my culinary arts course. And here's that assignment here.

But where are all the others? So all the others are undated. So I can come in here, and here are all the things that I now have to give assignment due dates to. So I can do it here by dragging and dropping. So the individual assignment kitchen safety plan was first. And then I also want them to take a quiz. So I'm going to click, not double click sorry, click, drag. And they're going to take that on the 31st.

And now it has put that due date every place that the students can see that due date. So I can come in here in this undated list and just start giving due dates. So week 2 will be in February. So I'm going to come over here to February. Let's see. And this is again why it's naming conventions are important.

So I can just continue to drag and drop everything until I have where I want it. But that can be time-consuming as well. But it's way less than clicking inside every assignment, every discussion, and every quiz and manually putting in the due dates. So that's one way to do it.

So again, I came into the course calendar, made sure that it's the only course that I see. Everything else is hidden. And I drop down the undated so that I could see everything that's still needs a date. And not everything has to have a date.

This one is a template. So I'm not going to give that one a due date. I'm also not going to publish it. But that's just going to help me if I want to create a new assignment. It already has a lot of the formatting in there, so I don't have to worry about it. Same with this quiz. It's a template. So those I wouldn't drag on the calendar. And you can set your course color.

Again, that's a user preference. So your students can do this and choose a different color than you do as well. I'm going to come back into my course and show you a third way. So I'm going to come down here to my assignments link.

And notice this is hidden from my students. Because I want them to see their assignments in the module view because it puts it in the order that I want them to see that assignment. I don't want them to see the assignments index page because notice it doesn't organize it for the students the way I want them to see it. And it doesn't show any of the content that they need before it.

You can also see that everything was brought into the assignment group, imported assignments because I imported it from another course. So if you have course assignment categories, this is where you would set them up. So you can just set assignment categories are the same thing as assignment groups.

So maybe I'll have homework, formative assessments, whatever, I can set those groups up. And then again drag and drop. And it will automatically update that in the student's grades and in your GradeBook. But what we're looking at is now putting on due dates to all of these other assignments that we want the students to complete without having to do it one at a time.

So in my assignments link, I'm going to come over to my three dots, which always means more. And I'm going to edit assignment dates. This is fairly new. It's only a couple of years old. It used to be that you had to do it from the calendar, or one at a time like I showed you.

But here you can see I have all of my assignments not necessarily in the order that the students need to complete them, but hopefully I have my planning calendar here and I can say when I want them. So let's see. We're going to do this group discussion week 1 in kitchen safety. That's also going to be due on the 31st with the quiz.

And then the individual assignment, that's part of my week 2. So we're going to go ahead and choose week 2 which will be February 7. Nope, I want my assignments on Wednesday, so I'm going to change that to the 5th. And then the culinary techniques exploration. This is an intro. So I'm going to have that due February 5 also.

And then I have the knife knowledge quiz, which will be due that Friday, February 7. So I can come in here and plug these dates in and do it in-- so I'm following my pacing guide. And you can also put in your available from and available two times.

And you can also, if I wanted this group discussion, so you can check a lot of them and put the date in here I think. Let's see what happens. Nope. Yep. Let's see. Did it, February 4? No it didn't.

This is when you want to-- if you have 100 assignments in here, you can select your dates by a range and shift them. But this is an individual edit. And you can see that I have three assignments selected. I'm going to batch edit those. And I'm going to shift them by three days because I am in Southern California and my school district was closed last week for three days.

And so now as a teacher, I want to give my students three extra days. And instead of going in and individually changing the dates for each assignment, I can select those three assignments and I can shift it by three dates or I can remove days. So this is another really great way to batch edit those. So you can see it landed on a Saturday. So I might want to rethink that.

But now those three were shifted by three days with one click instead of 10 clicks. So again, I selected the ones. So I can either select all of them or select none of them. And then once you have them selected, batch edit.

So we're going to just put in some due dates so that you can see. We're going to do a discussion, menu planning. That's going to be week 3. So we'll do a discussion on the 10th. This is a template, so I'm not going to put a due date on it. Kitchen safety plan presentation. Their plan was due the 31st. So I'm going to have them present in class on the 3rd.

And then the history of culinary arts. That's in week 3. So we'll have the quiz due on the 14th. And now I click Save. Taking just a minute. And now when I come back into modules, you can see that this one's due.

Here are the due dates for those. This quiz has a due date. The group discussion and the individual assignment has a due date. This quiz has a due date. And so now with that edit assignment screen I was able to plug-in all of my due dates very quickly. So Tanya, I didn't see this in time, which tip was worth the price of admission?

Tanya Cobb: The one where you showed the math due dates. And going to the calendar and selecting the undated and the drag and drop, oh my God, that is amazing. Thank you.

Dana Thompson: You're welcome. That was my favorite tool until they did the batch edit, then I was like oh, now I think I have two favorite tools.

Tanya Cobb: I think I'll be playing with that one as well. Yes, thank you.

Dana Thompson: So that is really helpful when you're-- because when you're recreating content, the dates aren't going to be the same. So you want to make sure that you have appropriate due dates for your students.

The other thing that I want to make sure that-- so now I have my, let me collapse my module so that we can see, we have our overview, week 1, week 2, and week 3. Maybe this is going to be good enough to get my students in here and started. And I can start working in my sandbox on week 4, week 5, week 6.

And I can go through those same steps to import content and select the specific content to be weeks 4, 5, and 6. Or what I can do, I can come back out to my dashboard and come back into either my sandbox or the current course that has those new modules. I hadn't created them in my old course yet. So I'm going to come into my sandbox.

And so say I'm in my sandbox and I'm developing a new module. So here's the learning module. Again, this is a module that has the framework. I don't have any content on these pages yet. But this is how I want my module to look. Instead of going in and copying every single item individually, I can copy this entire module.

So three dots and I'm going to-- you can't copy if there's quizzes in there for whatever reason. So I'm going to go ahead and remove that quiz because I can always plug it in individually itself. But now when I go into this learning module, I can duplicate this learning module. And it will duplicate everything in it.

And then, so remember I'm in my sandbox. I'm not doing this in one that has students in it. Or if you do do it in one that has students in it, just make sure that when you go to duplicate, everything is unpublished. Otherwise the students will see it. But now I can come in here and click on Edit. This is going to be my week 3. And this is going to be the history of Italian cuisine or something like that.

And then I can save that. And then I can come in here and do the same. Again, there's no content on these. But I am going to create the content. So this is not module 1. This is week 4. Did I put week 3? It should be week 4. I'll change it. And then this is going to be my overview and to do list. And I'm just going to remove the word copy.

And so I can go through and edit this to get it to create this module, plug-in my content, bring in my-- so here's a presentation. Maybe I want to bring in a video or I have a instructional video that I've already created myself or whatever the case may be, I'm going to go ahead and bring in all of those items, those content, and have the assignment that they're going to do, those things.

And then once this module is ready to go, I can just simply copy this whole module over to my new course. This is also where that three-digit number really, really helps. So I'm going to leave this open and duplicate my tab so that I don't lose this because I want to come back here because I'm going to copy over this completed module. You're going to pretend it's completed.

But I need to find out what the number is of my new course, my semester 2 because I've already forgotten it and I didn't write it down. So my semester 2 is 871. So that's what I'm going to use to make sure that it's going in the right place. So I'm going to come back into my sandbox. I'm going to go over here to the three dots for my module up for week 4. And I'm going to copy the entire module, everything that's in it to my 851 course.

Nope, see that's wrong. I already forgot it. 871. So 871, that's the correct course. Sp now it's going to take this whole module out of my sandbox. And it's going to copy everything over to my new semester 2 course for me.

So I'm going to come back over here. It takes a minute. I'm not very patient when it comes to things like this. So I just have to wait for a little bit, make sure it does its magic. Refresh my view. And there's my week 4 with everything that's in it.

And if you're teaching two or three sections, you create it once in your sandbox. And you copy it over to every section and then go in and adjust the due dates accordingly for each section, depending on when they meet. But you're doing the work once so that you don't have to do it individually in every class. And so now I have week 4 in here.

Now remember I didn't have that quiz. And I do want a quiz in this module. So what I'm going to do is come into my quizzes. And I'm going to find the quiz that I wanted, which was this quiz right here. Or where's the copy? Nope, I didn't copy. So this is the quiz that I want. So I'm going to just copy this quiz into 871.

And because it sees that there's more than one module in there, I can even say put it right in my week 4 module. And you're going to put it after the individual assignment. And then I'm going to copy that quiz over. And then I'll come back here, refresh. And there's that quiz right there.

So Don, when you create available from, should you do an until time or can you leave it blank? So that's a great question. Is there anyone in here, and you can either throw it in the chat or raise your hand or put the thumbs up, anyone in here who connects to a student information system?

And what that means is that your student information system is creating your courses in Canvas. And you can pass back the grades from Canvas into your student information system. I know most adult schools don't have that set up. So you're going into Canvas and you're doing the grades in here and everything is in here. And if you have to do a report card or something, you will go back and put that into the other system yourself.

And that matters because if you are using a student information system and you have a due date, that due date puts it into, say, quarter 1 or quarter 2 or trimester 1 or trimester 2. So if you have a semester class that is broken up into quarter 1 and quarter 2 and you don't have a due date, it will always put it at the very end.

And so that has caused some hiccups for teachers who are trying to get the assignment to count towards the first quarter grade and not the second quarter grade. And the simple fix is to put a due date on.

With the available date, if you do an available date from because you don't want them to have access to that assignment until tomorrow and you don't want them to see the content before tomorrow, if you don't put a until date in there, it will leave it open for the entire semester. So they still have access to it and to turn it in until the very last day of the semester.

If you want to make it so that they can't turn it in after February 3, you put that until time on there. When they go to try and turn it in on the 4th, it will tell them that they don't have access to turn it in. The due date though will put it in. If you have grading periods set up, will put it in a specific grading period. So that one is again really important. Any other questions before I show you one of my other favorite tools?