How to copy and reuse courses on Perusall

If you taught a course with Perusall before, you can migrate your content to a new course while keeping student work for archives. To copy another instructor's course, get their course copy code (under settings>access) and follow the steps below to create your new course with their content.

Copying a course from your LMS

1. If you've integrated Perusall with your LMS, create a new course in your LMS and launch Perusall from there to automatically create a linked Perusall course.
2. In Get Started > Step 1: Welcome, select Copy existing course and choose the original course from the course to copy dropdown to transfer your documents and assignments. After selecting the content and assignments, scroll down to:
   • Adjust all deadlines 
   • Copy instructor comments: copies only comments that start threads (instructor prompts), not student comments.
   • Copy rubrics: copies all rubrics from the original course; otherwise, only rubrics from copied assignments are imported.
   • Copy scoring templates: Perusall will grab all of your custom scoring templates from your old course (the ones located under Settings > Scoring > Scoring Templates) and move them over to the new course so you can use them whenever you want.
     • If you leave it unchecked: Perusall won't copy the whole library of templates. It will only pull over a specific scoring template if it is directly tied to an assignment you are copying over.
   • Copy course settings: This will overwrite settings in the new course with those from the old one.
3. Click Continue to finalize the process.

Are you working with "parent-child" courses in your LMS? Learn more about how to use Perusall with LMS "parent-child" courses.

Copying a course to a standalone course

1. Create your new course: If you are using Perusall standalone, click the Perusall logo to return to My courses, then click Create Course > for students to access directly at Perusall.com. Enter your initial details: Name, Institution, and Start Date.
2. Select your source course: Advance through the setup steps. In Step 1: Welcome, select Copy Existing Course. (Note: This copies your documents and assignments, but will not migrate your previous student roster or student data.)
3. Customize your copy options: Once you choose which content and assignments to reuse, scroll down to configure the following settings:
   • Adjust all deadlines 
   • Copy instructor comments: copies only comments that start threads (instructor prompts), not student comments.
   • Copy rubrics: copies all rubrics from the original course; otherwise, only rubrics from copied assignments are imported.
   • Copy scoring templates: Perusall will grab all of your custom scoring templates from your old course (the ones located under Settings > Scoring > Scoring Templates) and move them over to the new course so you can use them whenever you want.
     • If you leave it unchecked: Perusall won't copy the whole library of templates. It will only pull over a specific scoring template if it is directly tied to an assignment you are copying over.
   • Copy course settings: This will overwrite settings in the new course with those from the old one.
4. Click Continue to finalize the process.

If you created a standalone course and plan to integrate it with your Learning Management System (LMS), please refer to this helpful guide: How do I migrate a standalone course into my Learning Management System?

Copying items after a course has been set up

If you'd like to copy over other materials after the Get started process, you can do so by navigating to the Library tab on the course home page and select Add Content > Material from another course.