[ARCHIVED] Copying a podcast discussion and its contents into a new course

[huic]

I record my lectures as podcast episodes, which are posted in a discussion board that only I would post in in order to leverage the podcast feature. I also post transcript of each episode on the same discussion board.

Is there a way to copy such instructor-only discussion board AND its contents into a new course?

I have a feeling the answer is no, which then you (Canvas team) may consider this a feature request — create a different mechanism for podcast posting such that it can be copied into a different course.

[scottdennis]

Hello @huic 

Couldn't you also upload your podcast files to your course files and then link to the episodes and transcripts in a page, using the RCE?  This would let you copy everything to next term's course at the end of the current term.

[huic]

I don't think page has the podcast functionality — i.e. creating a RSS file that is accessible to students so that they can subscribe to it using their podcast apps. If I weren’t using that functionality, I would have just created separate assignments and posted the audio file in the assignment description instead.

[scottdennis]

Oh, gotcha!  OK, I misunderstood.  Thank you for clarifying.

[scottdennis]

I believe course announcements have an rss feed option for students and you can copy announcements forward to your next class.  Does that help?  Could you add your podcasts as announcements?

[huic]

Interesting idea @scottdennis! I wasn't aware that announcements also push out an RSS feed. It’d be a smart hack of existing functionality, but at the expense of usual function of announcements — to send out just-in-time communication to the class (e.g. snow day, room change, due date reminder, etc). 

[huic · Accepted solution]

To close out this thread, I guess the solutions are:

1. NO there isn't a way to copy discussion content to another course.

2. Workaround: use announcement as podcast, but lose the normal capability to send out actual announcements to class that are organized in one place.