{"id":1149,"date":"2023-02-02T14:11:46","date_gmt":"2023-02-02T01:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/?page_id=1149"},"modified":"2023-02-02T14:36:37","modified_gmt":"2023-02-02T01:36:37","slug":"importing-data-from-other-courses","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/building-your-course\/importing-data-from-other-courses\/","title":{"rendered":"Importing data from other courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Summary<\/h2>\n<p>At some point you may wish to copy content from an old or completely different course. Here is how you can achieve this.<\/p>\n<h3>Resources<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/401\/en\/Import_course_data\">Import course data<\/a> (MoodleDocs)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.moodle.org\/401\/en\/Course_backup\">Course backup<\/a> (MoodleDocs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Instructions<\/h2>\n<p>You should consider duplicating the content to copy into a dummy section, as this will prevent <strong>sections headers from being overwritten\u00a0<\/strong>and simplify the import process.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Navigate to your Moodle course.<\/li>\n<li>Select\u00a0<em>More,<\/em> then\u00a0<em>Course reuse<\/em> from the navigation bar below the course title.<\/li>\n<li>Ensure\u00a0<em>Import<\/em> is selected in the dropdown box at the top.<\/li>\n<li>Search for the course you wish to copy from, select it, then click\u00a0<em>Continue.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Untick<\/strong><strong> everything<\/strong> and select only the type content you want to import (generally <em>activities and resources<\/em>).<\/li>\n<li>Click\u00a0<strong>None<\/strong> to unselect everything, then select only the content you wish to copy.<br \/>\nNote: You can select individual activities, but you are forced to select its parent section first, which will then be merged into the destination course\u00a0<strong>including the section header.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Review what is being copied. If you are happy, click\u00a0<em>Perform import.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h3>Related Pages<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary At some point you may wish to copy content from an old or completely different course. Here is how you can achieve this. Resources Import course data (MoodleDocs) Course backup (MoodleDocs) Instructions You should consider duplicating the content to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45001,"featured_media":0,"parent":12,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1149","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1149\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.otago.ac.nz\/moodle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}