| This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas |
Consistency is an important element of good course design, and this would help instructors and designers achieve it more easily.
| Ideas related to this have been developed and depoyed |
This idea was completed through the Khaki 2017: Priorities & Related Ideas.
Here are the content items that were completed as part of Khaki
- Module Item Duplication: Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-11-18)
- Module Duplication: Canvas Production Release Notes (2018-06-23)
- Assignment Duplication: Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-07-15)
- Discussion Duplication: Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-10-28)
- Page Duplication: Canvas Production Release Notes (2017-07-15)
You can read more about Khaki in What in the world does “Khaki” have to do with Canvas?
*We know that the ability to copy a rubric from the rubric manager does not currently exist, but we have elected to mark this idea as complete anyways. If copying a rubric is something that you think should be developed, please add your comment and vote to Copy a rubric.
tl;dr Commons addresses part of this idea. Other parts will require multiple changes in Canvas.
Thank you for the outstanding comments on this idea. It clearly resonates with a lot of you. There are several things we can do to make Canvas better where managing content is concerned, and we're working on it! Let's talk about one thing—Canvas Commons—that we think will satisfy a lot of the use cases you described first, and then let's take the cases that Commons won't satisfy and talk about them in more detail.
First, Commons. Canvas Commons will help with many of the use cases you've described. You can get access to Commons now by talking with your Customer Success Manager. Commons will allow you to upload a course, or elements of a course, to a repository where you can reuse it yourself in the same or other courses and/or share it with others. The sharing options are flexible: you can limit sharing to users in a specific Canvas subaccount or account or share it publicly with all Commons users everywhere. Learn more by visiting Canvas Commons.
There is a The specified item was not found. space where you can share your ideas on how to improve Commons. One idea that has already been submitted that you may want to comment and vote on is Commons ability to import pages or assignments multiple times at once. This feature idea would help Commons cover even more of the cases you've described here.
Now, Commons won't cover everything you've described. It doesn't deal with content in a manner granular enough to take in your thoughts on copying / cloning things like rubrics, rubric scales, individual quiz questions, calendar items, announcements, etc.
Let's talk about these remaining use cases individually. They apply to different components of Canvas, so from a people perspective, some belong to one product manager and others to another.The folks who would work on each will need to ask some clarifying questions specifically about each remaining use case.
We've created four separate feature ideas, one for each of the remaining use cases we've identified after reviewing this discussion. (If we missed one, please say so!) Please check these out and participate in any that interest you:
Ability to share a rubric to the Commons
Duplicating Rating Scales in the Same Rubric
Quiz Question 'Cloning' Capability
Recurring Activity Option for Calendar
The Product person responsible for the area into which each of these falls will post some questions to get the conversation started, taking into account what you've already said here.