Duplicate, Clone, or Copy anything in Canvas

[jthoms]

This idea has been developed and deployed to Canvas

An option to "make a copy" should be present on nearly every gear in Canvas -- modules, quizzes, assignments, announcements, pages, discussions, rubrics...

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 https://community.canvaslms.com/ideas/5167" modifiedtitle="true" title="Copy a rubric.

[ccalderon]

I saw all of your new Ideas when I logged in this morning  @jthoms ​! Thank you so much for taking the time and entering these as new individual requests. I agree 100% with your comments about the need for simplicity in this process. I will be bookmarking all of your ideas and will promote them for voting at our institution as well.

[scottdennis]

Awesome, John!  Thank you.

[Renee_Carney]

This conversation is continuing at Copy Anything in Canvas (Redux)​.

[jthoms]

And thank you for the comments that voting is open. That was a helpful "ping."

[rmiller]

I appreciate the comments from Instructure that we can use Canvas Commons.  However, I need to be able to copy things WITHIN a course.  Any solution or work around that involves leaving the course to duplicate material does not aid in course design.   It makes work more complicated and prone to error.  Please put a copy button on everything within a course.  Canvas is the 4th program that I have used and is the only one that did not have this feature.

[James_Kocher_UF]

 @rmiller 

Did you try my work around?  It's not the best, but it works until duplication is implemented.

Copying items in a course

James

[pdove]

It would be great to be able to copy and then revise learning outcomes at the account level!  We have changed our notation slightly, so now I have to re-enter our full range of learning outcomes because they have already been used in previous courses, which will take multiple days.  A copy feature (which seems intuitive) would literally save me several days of work.

[jordan]

Hey Peggy!

Great work putting up your feature idea " modifiedtitle="true" title="Ability to copy, duplicate, clone and revise learning outcomes

 @jthoms ​ might be interested in adding your idea to his curated list of other content "cloning" feature ideas, here: Copy Anything in Canvas (Redux)​

[jthoms]

Fo'sure! Thanks for approving the edit.

-john

[brandonb]

This is a great idea.

 @heather_stockfo ​