Copying Quizzes and Outcomes into other courses

[jlong300]

I created a quiz and added outcomes to it in my shell course. I then tried to copy the quiz into all my other course sections. The quiz copied fine but the outcomes didn't go with it. Do I have to manually enter the outcomes for each question in each course section or is there something I'm missing. 

[Steven_S · Accepted solution]

Instead of using the copy feature from the quiz itself, try using "copy a canvas course." 

Go to course settings, from the right-side menu select "import course content"

In content type select "copy a canvas course" and then select the course with the quiz and outcomes.

Choose "select specific content"

Select the quiz and also any rubric associated with the outcome. 

I think this should import your outcomes, and retain the association to the quiz, but if not, there is also a way to import outcomes: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-import-outcomes-for-a-course/ta-p/702

[Steven_S · Accepted solution]

Instead of using the copy feature from the quiz itself, try using "copy a canvas course." 

Go to course settings, from the right-side menu select "import course content"

In content type select "copy a canvas course" and then select the course with the quiz and outcomes.

Choose "select specific content"

Select the quiz and also any rubric associated with the outcome. 

I think this should import your outcomes, and retain the association to the quiz, but if not, there is also a way to import outcomes: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Instructor-Guide/How-do-I-import-outcomes-for-a-course/ta-p/702

[Parish]

But doesn't "Copy a Canvas Course" end up making an entirely new course?  How can you copy outcomes from one course to another?  How can a department share outcomes and resources??

[Steven_S]

There is an "import from commons" on your home page.  Don't use that; it will import everything saved in whatever course you copy.  Specifically, in the right side menu of course settings (not the home page) there is "import course content."  The content type "copy a canvas course" allows you to copy all or part of a course.  To copy part of a course you need to chose the option to select specific content during the import.  In that case the first step of the import will be a request for you to select content, and a checklist of all content will be provided for that purpose.  Outcomes are one of the categories in the checklist.  You can copy the entire category or open it to select only the specific outcome of interest. 

In order to copy the content this way you need to be enrolled as a teacher in the course you are copying from.  In my department we have a course with all faculty that teach the same course enrolled as teachers (and no students).  We each copy content into the shared course whenever we have something to share.  But there are only four of us.

Since it is specifically outcomes that you want to share, the link in my earlier post gives you instructions for transferring the outcomes as a csv file. 

[michael_sholar]

Copy Course doesn't appear to work to retain outcomes alignments (tagged questions) on quizzes. It still fails even when I select the choice to copy everything from the other course.

The outcomes copy over but their alignment to questions is lost... unless it's an 'institutional outcome'... then it will remain tagged.

All of the outcomes that I made myself for my specific course will copy over to the new course, but not remain aligned with the questions on my quiz. So at this point it seems that I need to 're-tag' all questions in the new course.

[MarkHelzer]

Hi Michael,

I have the same issue. When I copy my quiz and outsomes into a new course the alignment of the outcome to the quiz do not transfer. I believe this is because each outcome has a designated course ID associated with it, which does not transfer when you put it into a new (different) course. I have no idea how to fix this. Who love to get a solution for this. 

[NoahBoswell · Accepted solution]

Hi @MarkHelzer and @michael_sholar ,

Quiz Outcomes are unable to be copied to other courses. This is because each individual course has their own outcomes based off of student mastery within that course only, meaning those outcomes from that one course cannot be duplicated over to another course. This however may be able to be changed based off of how your school has Canvas set-up and developed. However, I think generally it's not able to be copied.

You can view more information regarding Outcomes here in this guide: https://community.canvaslms.com/t5/Canvas-Basics-Guide/What-are-Outcomes/ta-p/75\.

Hope this helps you out!

Noah B.

[MarkHelzer]

My biggest complaint about this is if I create a quiz in a "dev" course and I also tag those questions with an outcome in the DEV course when I copy everything over to my active course, I feel the outcomes should stay aligned with the question/quiz. I don't want to have to realign every question with an outcome every time I copy that quiz into a new course. I really want to know if CANVAS is aware of this issue/concern and are going to fix it. 

[NoahBoswell]

Hi, @MarkHelzer...
I recommend that you leave this under canvas ideas for the canvas team to look at, and to possibly implement in a future canvas update.

You can click the link below, then click Submit a Idea and go from there!

Reach out with any questions, thanks!

CLICK HERE!! 

[MarkHelzer]

Thank you for letting me know about the Canvas idea section. I am new to this whole thing and was unaware of this option. Thank you for your input. 

Mark

[NoahBoswell]

Absolutely, Mark!