Copying Content Into Ultra Courses

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Locating the "Copy Content" feature

To begin copying content in your Ultra course, enter the destination course — the Your new course where you want the content to appear.

• If your course shell is empty, select the "Add Content" button.

• If you have material populated in your course,

• select the plus icon for where you

• want to add

• your content

  • Select the "Copy Content" option

• • The side panel menu will open with a

• • listing of all

• • the

• • courses for which you have Instructor access

• • to copy from

Selecting the Content to be Copied

Note to Instructors previously using Blackboard Original courses:

Use the search bar or browse through the list to locate the course that contains the content from which you wish to copy.

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If you wish to perform a full course copy, simply select the checkbox next to the course name you wish to copy.

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Granular course copies are recommended when copying from Blackboard Original View to Blackboard Ultra View

• Select the arrow to the right of the title of the course to locate and select a specific module, folder, content or course item

• Select the checkbox next to specific module, folder, content or course item you wish to copy to your new course

• Select Start Copy

Full course copies are acceptable when copying from a course that is already in Blackboard Ultra View into Blackboard Ultra View

• Select the check box to the left of the title of the course

• Select Start Copy

Warning
IMPORTANT NOTES | READ BEFORE COPYING ITEMS: Instructors previously using Blackboard Original course content is copied in reverse fashion from the way it was done in Original courses. If you are copying from an Original course, we strongly recommend against a full course copy. Please see our “Note on Full Course Copies” below before proceeding. If

you want to copy specific items within the course, click on the title of the course to view the content within. Continue "diving into" the content until you locate the item(s)

you

wish to copy. You can select individual items, or select a folder/module to copy all of its contents. 

Select the checkbox next to the item(s) you will copy into your new course.

(Note: If you

are copying content from an Organization, select

the

“Organizations” tab underneath the “Copy Items” header

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When you have selected all desired items, select the "Start Copy" button in the lower right hand corner.

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A Note on Full Course Copies

When you copy content pulling it through the Ultra Copy Content tool, it will report any errors once the copy is complete.  Click on View Details in the copy window to see what errors occurred during the copy process. If those items you copied did not transfer or are no longer supported in Ultra courses, you may need to rebuild that content in your Ultra course.

Examples of conversion errors might be:

• Minor styling and formatting that was removed - certain fonts and text colors are no longer supported in item titles, for example. 

• Ultra courses only allow three levels of nested folders. If you copy over content with more than three folder levels, all items in folders below the third level will be "flattened out" into their parent folder. 

• Some items that are not currently supported in Ultra course view will not copy over to the Ultra course, such as surveys, wikis and blogs.

• Some test question types that are no longer supported in Ultra course view will be converted to a new type - for example, "multiple answer" questions are now an option within the "multiple choice" type, and not an independent question type. 

Please review the Ultra and Original Feature Comparisons Answers page as there are differences that can affect your course copy.