November 2016
Durham Technical Community College
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Importing (Copying) Course Content from one Sakai Course to Another
If you have a
new
Sakai site and want to bring in content from
another
Sakai site, you can
“import” content into the
new
site.
Importing involves two Sakai course sites:
The
SOURCE
course contains content you want to re-use elsewhere.
The
DESTINATION
course is the site you want to bring content into. ALWAYS perform
the import process from within the DESTINATION course.
STEP 1 – IMPORT CONTENT from within the
DESTINATION
course
You can import content into your
DESTINATION
course from
any Sakai site
in which you have
instructor privileges.
To import content:
1. In the
DESTINATION
course, go to Site Info > Import from Site.
2. Select the Merge data method: “I would like to merge my data”.
3. Select the
site
that contains the
content
you wish to import and click Continue.
4. Tool names will display for tools that
contain content
in your
SOURCE
course. If a tool
with content hasn’t been added to your
DESTINATION
course, the import process will
add the tool to your
DESTINATION
course automatically. We recommend that you check
beside the following tools to import them into your
DESTINATION
course:
Site Information Display: Your Overview/Home page image(s) and text will
import.
Assignments: Assignments will import and be saved in draft mode.
Forums: Forums will import and be saved in draft mode.