Start of a new year and you'll want to start with fresh courses in D2L. You can have teachers reset courses, or if they want to prepare the new course prior to being finished with the old courses, then the following steps might be the answer:
Step 1: Fresh shells are made for all of your courses by admin (BCC).
Step 2: Teachers are assigned to these new courses (shells) by admin (bulk user upload/ENROLL).
Step 3: Content is loaded into the new course (shells), depending on teacher plans:
option 1 (most common): teacher simply wants a copy of their old course moved over to the new shell. Instructions found below. Customization available after loading, and more customization options coming in the fall.
option 2 (if not current with forums): teacher wants new course from WCLN (which D2L admin can make backup available). They "may" wish to move some stuff over from old course. Again, customization available.
option 3 (least common): teacher wants to build from scratch. Nothing to load - just use shell supplied.
Option 1 - Steps for teacher:
- Go into your old course
- Course Admin > Import / Export .......
- Export as Brightspace Package > Start > Select all components = selected > Continue
- Include course files = yes > Export
- Wait and watch for new alert (orange dot above alert icon).
- When export is finished, click on the link in alerts and download the backup to your desktop.
- Now, we go into your new course (shell).
- Course Admin > Import / Export .......
- Import Components > from a course package > Start
- Upload (file from desktop) > Import all Compenents
- Wait for Import > View Content > Adjust as Needed
Video summary of above steps: