Follow module IDs from one course copy to another

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So, I have a problem. I have been experimenting with ways to skin Canvas with different interfaces and I've had a lot of success. However, in each case, I use the module api to pull in module data, including IDs, and then tie meta data to a module ID. This works great! However, when I copy a course, the module IDs change and I have to start from scratch to reconfigure dozens and dozens of settings. My question is, how can I get a module's new ID after a course? Some how I need to know the old ID and the new ID so I can update my database.

I hope that is clear, any suggestions? I looked at the content migrations API but I didn't see anything. Hopefully one of your creative minds can help me out!

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Hopefully someone can come up with a better way than this, but here are some steps I thought of

select the course to copy from list

export the course

we pull the export file in, then add an id tag to the module title string

import the course in canvas

we use the ID tag to locate the new module IDs

we copy the meta data from the old IDs to the new ones

we clean out all the id tags from the new course

That looks super ugly, but I hope it can help you see something I can't and come up with a cleaner method.