[ARCHIVED] How to import people from another course

[missioncte01]

How do I import people from another course?

[Chris_Hofer · Accepted solution]

Hello there,  @missioncte01  Welcome to the Canvas Community.  Thank you for posting your question.  Normally, course enrollments would be handled by your school's local Canvas administrators.  For example, at our Technical College, our SIS (Student Information System) passes all courses and enrollments from Banner (our SIS) to Canvas.  Some schools, however, allow their instructors to enroll students on their own.  Other schools may allow students to self-enroll in their courses using a unique course URL.  There isn't anything inside of a given course that allows you to import enrollments from one course to another.  The Course Import Tool in a Canvas course allows you to import (copy) course content...not enrollments.  I would recommend that you reach out to your school's local Canvas administrator to discuss how student enrollments are handled at your school and how best to get students from one course into another course.  I hope this helps.

[kyh802]

Hi there,

This doesn't solve the problem. We don't want to import the students, we want to import the groups. That is, last year I painstakingly created 12 differently named groups with different size-limits for students to sign up for. I'd prefer to not have to spend that time again and just import them into this year's Canvas. If there's not an option to do this, that's a shame.

[Chris_Hofer]

@kyh802 ...

In all fairness, the question that was originally asked was about how to import people from another course.  Since @missioncte01 did not mention anything about groups, I answered the question based on the information that was provided.

For your question, however, you are asking about how to import student groups...for example, the Group Sets and the groups within those Group Sets.  I'm not sure if you've tried this, but you might come close to accomplishing what you want by uploading a CSV file.  I've not tried this myself, and it looks like there would be some work on your end to get the CSV file formatted the way you wanted, but maybe you could use this as a template each semester so that creating your groups might be, at least, a little quicker?  Here is a Guide I found for you: How do I import groups in a group set?.

I hope this helps to clarify the OP (Original Posting) as well as give you some additional documentation to look at in hopes that it will be of use.

Please let Community members know if you have any further questions about this...thanks!