Copying Content Into Ultra Courses

This page reviews the process for copying content in Ultra courses with special emphasis on concerns when copying Original content into Ultra.

Table of Contents

1 Locating the "Copy Content" feature
2 Selecting the Content to be Copied
3 A Note on Full Course Copies
4 Navigating Errors

Locating the "Copy Content" feature

To begin copying content in your Ultra course, enter the destination course — 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

Use the search bar or browse through the list to locate the course that contains the content from which you wish to copy. It may be easier to search by semester, ie “Fall24” or by the 9 digit course ID if you have multiple pages of courses.

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

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 are copying content from an Organization, select “Organizations” tab underneath the “Copy Items” header

A Note on Full Course Copies

When copying from one Ultra course to another Ultra course, executing a full course copy is as easy as following the steps above and simply selecting the checkbox next to the entire course (versus navigating inside of the course's content).

However, when first transitioning a course from Original course view to Ultra, it is important to note that the official recommendation of the Online Learning Services department is to copy folder by folder or item by item. Executing a full course copy from an original view course into a new Ultra course shell can make it difficult to predict exactly where copied content will wind up and may create additional work in cleaning up and organizing content within the new interface. Please watch this quick video for a "quick guide" to transitioning your Original course to Ultra.

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Navigating Errors

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.