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Copying courses: how do I use Perusall to teach the same course again?

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If you previously taught a course using Perusall, you can easily migrate your content to a new course, while preserving student work in the old course for archival purposes. If you are interested in copying another instructor's course, you can also use the copy course tool to create your new course with their content. 

 

Copying a course from your LMS

  1. If you have integrated Perusall with your learning management system, create a new course through your LMS and then launch Perusall from the new course, which will create a corresponding course in Perusall that is linked to the new course in the LMS.
  2. Now, in the new Perusall course, navigate to the Library tab on the course home page and select Add > Material from another course to copy over your documents and assignments to the new course. Once you've decided which content and assignments you would like to use, adjust the assignment details.
    • Adjust all deadlines (you can also manually update deadlines once in the course)
    • Copy instructor comments from old course to new course: this will only copy comments that start a thread in your conversations (i.e. any instructor prompts that are written in the content). Student comments will not be copied. 
    • Copy course settings: this will overwrite all settings in the destination course. Click this to keep your same settings from the old course. 
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Copying a course to a standalone course

  1. If you are using Perusall standalone, click the Perusall logo to go back to My courses and then click Copy Course. This will create a copy of your old course, copying over documents and assignments but not the roster or student data.
  2. Once you've decided which content and assignments you would like to use, adjust the assignment details.
    • Adjust all deadlines (you can also manually update deadlines once in the course)
    • Copy instructor comments from old course to new course: this will only copy comments that start a thread in your conversations (i.e. any instructor prompts that are written in the content). Student comments will not be copied. 
    • Copy course settings: this will overwrite all settings in the destination course. Click this to keep your same settings from the old course. 
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Note

Neither student roster nor data will not be shared to the new course.