Copy an Assignment

[jthoms]

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A good instructional design practice is to have a predictable module structure for students to follow throughout a course. Assignments often have consistent options and text (ie: honor code statements) throughout a course.

Currently copying requires creating a new assignment, and copying content for each item. By adding a “copy” option to the options gear, the effort to build a course will be greatly reduced. If this triggered a dialogue to state how many copies to make, it would be very simple to quickly build out a course structure.

Please help to flesh out this idea by discussing your particular use case in the comments.

Edit: taking quizzes out of this request -- please vote and comment at Duplicate Quizzes

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[Renee_Carney]

 @jthoms  Thank You  for submitting this idea, as well as,  @brendaa  Thank You  ,  @janejump  Thank You , lbenaloh Thank You , mniehaus Thank You , bbroniak Thank You , dreesd Thank You ,  @rmiller  Thank You ,  @hollands  Thank You ,  @kedgecomb  Thank You ,  @emily  Thank You ,  @ggongwer  Thank You , lisaarter Thank You ,  @kobrien3  Thank You ,  @wheelerr  Thank You , shannon.bros Thank You ,  @lepeskaj  Thank You , rrocque Thank You , bjones Thank You , rgo877 Thank You ,  @mhenderson  Thank You , jcampbell Thank You ,  @kmatson  Thank You ,  @mje  Thank You , mpf169 Thank You ,  @mabrams  Thank You ,  @rmiller  Thank You ,  @laura_cometa  Thank You ,  @ronmarx  Thank You ,  @swinter  Thank You ,  @mark_goldner  Thank You , &  @kona  Thank You  for your contributions. Your investment in this idea helped refine a feature which is now part of Canvas! 

[jthoms]

Thanks to you all, on behalf of many Canvas users! Keep up the great work, Instructure.